Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA) analysis was employed to investigate activation energy (Ea) for the process of degrading of poly(o-toluidine) (POT) applying Horwitz & Metzger, Coats & Redfern and Chan et al., methods. POT was synthesized by chemical oxidative polymerization method using Ammonium per Sulphate (APS) as an oxidant while Dodecylbenzene Sulphonic Acid (DBSA) and sul...

Rhodococcus rhodochrous NCIMB 13259 grows on styrene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and benzene as sole carbon sources. Simultaneous induction tests with cells grown on styrene or toluene showed high rates of oxygen consumption with toluene cis-glycol and 3-methylcatechol, suggesting the involvement of a cis-glycol pathway. 3-Vinylcatechol accumulated when intact cells were incubated with styrene in t...

Cysteine and toluene as model organic molecules were intercalated into Fe-rich smectite (nontronile, NAu-2). The illitization of these intercalated smectites as induced by microbial reduction of structural Fe" was investigated. Iron-reducing bacterium Shewanellaputrefaciens CN32 was incubated with lactate as the sole electron donor and structural Fe* in cysteineand toluene-intercalated NAu-2 (r...

The title compound, C20H18N2S, was synthesized by the condensation reaction between p-tolu-idine and thio-phene-2,5-dicarboxaldehye in refluxing toluene with p-toluene-sulfonic acid added as catalyst. The mol-ecule lies on a twofold rotation axis and adopts an E orientation with respect to the azomethine bonds. The dihedral angle between the unqiue benzene ring and the least-squares plane [maxi...

Toluene-treated cells were used for examining excision of pyrimidine dimers in Escherichia coli strains W3110, DM845 (uvrA-), P3478 (polA-), and KS5064 (polAex1). Excision occurring in toluene-treated cells is rapid, adenosine 5'-triphosphate dependent, and requires the uvrA gene function. In strains lacking either the polymerizing or 5' leads to 3' exonucleolytic activity of deoxyribonucleic a...

Ogata, M., Tomokuni, K., and Takatsuka, Y. (1970). Brit. J. industr. Med., 27,43-50. Urinary excretion of hippuric acid and mor p-methylhippuric acid in the urine of persons exposed to vapours of toluene and mor p-xylene as a test of exposure. Twenty-three male volunteers were exposed in groups of four or five to toluene and mand p-xylene vapour for periods of 3 hours or of 7 hours with one bre...

BACKGROUND Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX) are the most important toxic volatile compounds in the air and could be easily absorbed through the respiratory tract. In recent years, the risk of exposure to BTEX compounds, especially benzene as a carcinogen, has been considered in petroleum depot stations. OBJECTIVE To assess the occupational exposure of petroleum depot workers i...