A simple and sensitive spectrophotometric flow injection analysis system has been developed for the determination of trace amounts of nitrite. The method is based on the reaction of nitrite with sulfanilamide in acidic medium to form a diazonium salt which then couples with thenoyltrifluoroacetone in alkaline medium to give an azo dye. Beer’s law is obeyed at 470 nm over a nitrite concentration...

The biochemical changes consequent to respiratory chain inhibition and their relationship to cell death in Leishmania spp. remain elusive. Inhibitors of respiratory chain complexes I, II, and III were able to induce apoptotic death of the bloodstream form of Leishmania donovani. Complex I inhibition resulted in mitochondrial hyperpolarization that was preceded by increased superoxide production...

A novel synergistic extraction system was investigated for the possible selective separation of light lanthanoids using an ionic liquid, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, as an extraction solvent and 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone and 18-crown-6 as extractants. Trivalent lanthanum was efficiently extracted as a cationic ternary complex by the cation-exchange process, wh...

the extraction of gadolinium (gd) from perchlorate and nitrate media in 1,2-dichloroethane(c2h4cl2), carbon tetrachloride (ccl4) and chloroform (chcl3) by mixtures of 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone (htta) and a crown ether benzo-15-crown-5 (b15c5) is investigated.the composition of the extracted species is determined as gd(tta)3.nb15c5 (n=1 in nitratemedium and n=2 in perchlorate medium). the values...