The syntheses and the structural, spectroscopic, and chemical properties of phosphirenes, phosphirene-transition metal complexes, and silirenes are discussed and compared. Close analogies are noted in the synthetic schemes and physico-chemical properties of the two types of three-membered rings.

Nanocrystalline apatites analogous to bone mineral are very promising materials for the preparation of highly bioactive ceramics due to their unique intrinsic physico-chemical characteristics. Their surface reactivity is indeed linked to the presence of a metastable hydrated layer on the surface of the nanocrystals. Yet the sintering of such apatites by conventional techniques, at high temperat...

The choice of management practices for the treatment of piggery effluent prior to its disposal to waterways or land is governed by the desire to simultaneously minimise the cost of treatment whilst minimising pollution of the environment. Laboratory experiments were conducted to compare the removal of total and total filterable phosphorus (P) (<0.45 microm) from ortho-phosphate solutions or pig...

Many industrial sectors are likely to generate highly saline wastewater: these include the agro-food, petroleum and leather industries. The discharge of such wastewater containing at the same time high salinity and high organic content without prior treatment is known to adversely affect the aquatic life, water potability and agriculture. Thus, legislation is becoming more stringent and the tre...

Phytoplankton species composition as well as amount of Chlorophyll-a and their relation to physico-chemical parameters were studied. The samples were collected monthly from October 1996 until September 1997 in two stations, i.e. Lavan and Douberkeh coastal waters. In this study, 65 phytoplankton species related to 3 groups of diatoms, dinoflagellats and Blue-Green Algae (24 genus and 44 species...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Two ready-to-use parenteral nutritions (PN) have been developed, for the first days of life of the premature newborn, along with syringes of lipid emulsion with or without vitamins. Long-term physico-chemical stability for storage in wards was assessed. METHODS Physico-chemical stability of PN: visual inspection, particle size, pH, osmolarity measurement, amino acids, glucos...

Late Embryogenesis Abundant proteins (LEAPs) comprise several diverse protein families and are mostly involved in stress tolerance. Most of LEAPs are intrinsically disordered and thus poorly functionally characterized. LEAPs have been classified and a large number of their physico-chemical properties have been statistically analyzed. LEAPs were previously proposed to be a subset of a very wide ...

Onion (Allium cepa L.) is one of the economically important vegetable crops grown in Turkey. In this study, some physico-chemical and antioxidant properties, volatile compounds and fatty acid composition of ten different onion seeds were investigated. The fatty acid composition and volatile compounds were analyzed by Gas Chromatography (GC) and Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), resp...

Actagardine (originally designated as metabolite B or gardimycin) is a polypeptide antibiotic produced by fermentation of Actinoplanes strains ATCC 31048 and 31049. During the course of repeated fermentations two new compounds, coded D and E, were isolated. Some physico-chemical and biological characteristics of actagardine and of both compounds are presented. Compound D is derived from chemica...

Malonyl-4,5-dihydroniphimycin was isolated as a new antibiotic from the mycelium of Streptomyces hygroscopicus 15. The chemical constitution was elucidated from the physico-chemical properties, using NMR techniques and mass spectrometry, to be a 36-membered macrolide related to non-polyenic antibiotics. Malonyl-4,5-dihydroniphimycin displays activity against filamentous fungi and Gram-positive ...