Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are synthetic chemicals, manufactured in volume from about 1929 to the 1970s. Environmental contamination by PCBs has been documented in various substances, including human tissue. PCBs have been measured in human tissue by a variety of analytical methods. PCB levels have been reported as an approximation of total PCB content expressed in terms of a commercial m...

A previous study of six polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners showed that PCBs with four or fewer chlorines and ortho substitution stimulate uterine contraction frequency in vitro, whereas congeners with a greater number of chlorines or non-ortho substitution are inactive in vitro. We tested the hypothesis that PCB mixtures stimulate uterine contractions in a manner inversely related to the ...

The reaction of H + phenol and H/D + toluene has been studied in a supersonic expansion after electric discharge. The (1 + 1') resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) spectra of the reaction products, at m/z = parent + 1, or parent + 2 amu, were measured by scanning the first (resonance) laser. The resulting spectra are highly structured. Ionization energies were measured by scanning ...

Sulfoximines are an interesting class of compounds, which exhibit Brønsted and Lewis basicity, nucleophilicity, C−H acidity, N−H hydrogen-bond acceptor capability chirality. have received renewed interest in recent times, since incorporation a sulfoximine group can provide drug candidates with favorable properties. The synthesis N−H, α-C−H o-C−H functionalization sulfoximines currently topics c...

For ratiometric "naked eye" detection of CN(-), an ESIPT exhibiting benzothiazole receptor (BHI) is designed having one aldehyde group ortho and the other aldehyde para to the OH group respectively. Due to RAHBs, the ortho aldehyde group is highly reactive undergoing nucleophilic cyanide addition selectively, which hampered ESIPT. This is also supported by DFT and TD-DFT calculations.

[reaction: see text] An ortho-substituted BIPHEP ligand, o-Ph-hexaMeO-BIPHEP (1), is designed and synthesized. Compared with chiral biaryl phosphines without ortho substituents such as BINAP and MeO-BIPHEP, o-Ph-hexaMeO-BIPHEP shows higher enantioselectivities in Rh-catalyzed hydrogenation of cyclic enamides.