The objective of this study was to explore the utility of nitrile gloves as a replacement for latex surgical gloves in recovering bacteria from the hands. Two types of nitrile gloves were compared to latex gloves using the parallel streak method. Streaks of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus were made on tryptic soy agar plates, and the zones of inhibition were measured around piec...

Paclitaxel (taxol) is an antimicrotubule agent widely used in the treatment of cancer. Taxol is prepared in a semisynthetic route by coupling the N-benzoyl-(2R,3S)-3-phenylisoserine sidechain to the baccatin III core structure. Precursors of the taxol sidechain have previously been prepared in chemoenzymatic approaches using acylases, lipases, and reductases, mostly featuring the enantioselecti...

Nitrile oxide 1,3 dipolar cycloaddition is a simple and powerful coupling methodology. However, the self-dimerization of nitrile oxides has prevented the widespread use of this strategy for macromolecular coupling. By combining an in situ nitrile oxide generation with a highly reactive activated dipolarophile, we have overcome these obstacles and present a metal-free macromolecular coupling str...

Abstract Structure–properties relationship in complex rubber nanocomposites is a key for enlarging the performance window. Herein, halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) are added at variable content to ethylene-propylene diene monomer (EPDM)/nitrile butadiene (NBR) blends compatibilized with maleic anhydride grafted HNTs evaluate cure characteristics, along microstructure, and mechanical swelling behavio...

Sulforaphane, an isothiocyanate from broccoli, is one of the most potent food-derived anticarcinogens. This compound is not present in the intact vegetable, rather it is formed from its glucosinolate precursor, glucoraphanin, by the action of myrosinase, a thioglucosidase enzyme, when broccoli tissue is crushed or chewed. However, a number of studies have demonstrated that sulforaphane yield fr...

We report the deprotonation of a chiral nitrile and reaction of the resulting chiral organometallic species with a variety of electrophiles to give highly enantiomerically enriched 2-substituted nitrile products. The nitrile was treated with TMPMgCl and the resulting anion, an asymmetric alpha cyano Grignard species, was found to be configurationally stable at low temperature for a short time (...

The spectroscopic responses to environmental changes (e.g. different solvents or temperatures) of the nitrile stretching transition of small molecule-nitriles or unstructured peptides were explored to better understand the observations of the nitrile-modified RNase complexes. In general, when solvated by a polar solvent, it is expected that the large ground state dipole moment of nitrile-contai...

Bacteria were enriched from soil samples with succinate as a carbon source and racemic naproxen nitrile [2-(6-methoxy-2-naphthyl)propionitrile] as sole source of nitrogen. Since naproxen nitrile was only poorly soluble in water media amended with different water-immiscible organic phases were used for the enrichments. With pristane (2,6,10,14-tetramethylpentadecane) as the organic phase two bac...

Nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) latex/graphene oxide (GO) membranes were fabricated through a latex compounding and curing method which is relatively new to produce for wastewater treatment. Hence, the steps in production of membrane this approach need be evaluated optimize performance membrane. In paper, effect sulfur loading range 0.5 1.5 parts per hundred (phr) on morphology, crosslink densit...

Abstract Multi‐walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) were first non‐covalently functioned by tannic acid (TA), then blended with nitrile rubber (NBR) and ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) NBR:EPDM:TA‐MWCNT = 70:30:5. TA‐MWCNT the composites had been characterized various techniques, including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT‐IR), Raman analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM)...