Methylglyoxal (MGO) and glyoxal (GO), known as reactive carbonyl species, can be generated endogenously and exogenously (human body and food system). They are attracting increased attention because of their relationship with diabetes and flavour generation. In this review, their characteristics relating to flavour chemistry are discussed. MGO and GO can be detected in food systems by GC and HPL...

Oleang, a Thai coffee drink, contained roasted robusta coffee and several roasted grains and seeds. In this research the typical ingredients of oleang that were robusta coffee, corn, soybean, rice, sesame and brown sugar, were roasted and studied for their volatile compounds. Coffee, corn, sesame, and brown sugar were roasted at 220°C for 20 min and soybean and rice were roasted at 240°C for 20...

Leishmaniasis constitutes a severe public health problem, with an estimated prevalence of 12 million cases. This potentially fatal disease has worldwide distribution and in 2012, the Visceral (VL) was declared as new emerging Europe, mainly due to global warming, expected important impact. The available treatments are toxic, costly or lead parasite resistance, thus there is urgent need for drug...

New efficient synthetic methods in pyrazoline and pyrazolopyrazine chemistry have been developed starting from 2,2-dichlorovinylacetophenones 1, which were sequentially transformed into 3-aryl-5-dichloromethyl-1-(2-hydroxiethyl)-2-pyrazolines 2, 3-aryl-5-dichloromethyl-1-(2-O-tosylhydroxyethyl)-2-pyrazolines 3, 3-aryl-5-dichloromethyl-1-(2-azidoethyl)-2-pyrazolines 4, 3-aryl-5-dichloromethyl-1-...

Aim Massa Medicata Fementata (MMF) is a crude drug used in East Asia to treat anorexia and dyspepsia. It prepared from wheat several herbs through microbial fermentation using Aspergillus sp. Rhizopus There great difference the quality of commercial MMF, microbes MMF are suggested affect its quality. We investigated effects on MMF. Methods Raw materials were mixed according ratio listed Nationa...

Equilibration time and temperature were the factors studied to choose the best conditions for analyzing volatiles in roasted ground Arabica coffee by a static headspace sampling extraction method. Three temperatures of equilibration were studied: 60, 80, and 90 degrees C. A larger quantity of volatile compounds was extracted at 90 degrees C than at 80 or 60 degrees C, although the same qualitat...

A bacterium was isolated from the waste gas treatment plant at a fishmeal processing company on the basis of its capacity to use 2,3-diethyl-5-methylpyrazine (DM) as a sole carbon and energy source. The strain, designated strain DM-11, grew optimally at 25 degrees C and had a doubling time of 29.2 h. The strain did not grow on complex media like tryptic soy broth, Luria-Bertani broth, or nutrie...

Di/mono-nuclear iron(I)/(II) complexes containing conjugated and electron-withdrawing S-to-S linkers, [{(μ-S)(2)(C(4)N(2)H(2))}Fe(2)(CO)(6)] (1), [{(μ-S)(2)(C(4)N(2)H(2))}Fe(2)(CO)(5)(PMe(3))] (1P), and [{(μ-S)(2)(C(4)N(2)H(2))}Fe(CO)(2)(PMe(3))(2)] (2) were prepared as biomimetic models for the 2Fe2S subunit and distal Fe moiety of the active site of [FeFe] hydrogenases. The N atoms in the het...