Photolysis of 2-diphenylmethoxyacetophenone (1) in deaerated acetonitrile at room temperature is expected to proceed via Norrish Type II reaction to generate benzophenone (2) and acetophenone (4) as the main isolated photoproducts. Although the acetophenone enol intermediate (3) is generally considered a putative intermediate that is a precursor of acetophenone, there are few reports of the dir...

the biodegradation of secondary amines is particularly important due to their propensity for conversion either chemically or microbiologically to n-nitrosamines which are potent carcinogens. in this research, a weak gram-positive organism was isolated from river and identified as mycobacterium. this mycobacterium grows slowly and effectively utilizes piperazine as the sole source of organic, ca...

Piperazine is widely used as an intermediate in the manufacture of insecticides, rubber chemicals, corrosion inhibitors, and urethane. In this study, a highly effective piperazine-degrading bacteria strain, TOH, was isolated from the acclimated activated sludge of a pharmaceutical plant. This strain, identified as Paracoccus sp., utilises piperazine as the sole source of carbon, nitrogen and en...

The addition of carbon dioxide and water enhances acetophenone hydrogenation activity over an activated carbon-supported palladium catalyst, and 1-phenylethanol can be easily recovered without distillation and neutralization. Two liquid phases (water and acetophenone) are indispensable for enhancement of the hydrogenation rate.

BACKGROUND Piperazine is a secondary heterocyclic amine that may give rise to occupational asthma of uncertain mechanism. METHODS We report on a 42-year-old woman, a process operator in a chemical factory, who developed work-related symptoms of rhinitis and asthma upon exposure to piperazine citrate. She remained symptom free during holidays and days off work. RESULTS Skin prick test with p...

The half reactions of v-aminotransferase (vAT) from Vibrio fluvialis JS17 (v-ATVf) were carried out using purified pyridoxal 50-phosphate-enzyme (PLP-Enz) and pyridoxamine 50-phosphate-enzyme (PMP-Enz) complexes to investigate the relative activities of substrates. In the reaction generating PMP-Enz from PLP-Enz using Lalanine as an amine donor, L-alanine showed about 70% of the initial reactio...

The goal of this research was to investigate the potential of newly synthesized gold complex trichloro(2,4,6-trimethylpyridine)Au(III) as an anticancer agent. The gold(III) complex was synthesized and grafted on nanoporous silica, MCM-41, to produce AuCl(3)@PF-MCM- 41 (AuCl(3) grafted on pyridine-functionalized MCM-41). The toxicity of trichloro(2,4,6- trimethylpyridine)Au(III) and AuCl(3)@PF-M...