the whole plant, pergularia daemia (family: asclepediaceae), was extracted with 50% alcohol and a fresh batch of the plant material was successively extracted with petroleum ether, ethyl acetate and n-butanol to determine its diuretic activity. the diuretic activity of the different extracts at a dose of 400 mg/kg was assessed orally in rats with furosemide as a standard drug using lipschitzs t...

High-speed gas sampling experiments to measure the intermediate products formed during fuel decomposition remain challenging yet important experimental objectives. This article presents new speciation data on two important fuel reference compounds, n-heptane and n-butanol, at practical thermodynamic conditions of 700 K and 9 atm, for stoichiometric fuel-to-oxygen ratios and a dilution of 5.64 (...

BACKGROUND The fermentation of sugars to alcohols by microbial systems underpins many biofuel initiatives. Short chain alcohols, like n-butanol, isobutanol and isopropanol, offer significant advantages over ethanol in terms of fuel attributes. However, production of ethanol from resistant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains is significantly less complicated than for these alternative alcohols. R...

Phytohormone salicylic acid (SA) is a crucial component of plant-induced defense against biotrophic pathogens. Although the key players of the SA pathway are known, there are still gaps in the understanding of the molecular mechanism and the regulation of particular steps. In our previous research, we showed in Arabidopsis suspension cells that n-butanol, which specifically modulates phospholip...

five flavonoid glycosides were isolated from the n-butanol soluble fraction of the ethanolic extract of rapistrum rugosum and their structures were assigned from 1h- and 13c-nmr spectra (dept) with 2d nmr as quercetin-3-o-α-l-rhamnopyranoside (1), quercetin-3-o-β-d-xyloside (2), quercetin, 3-o-α-l-arabinopyranoside,7-o-α-l-rhamnopyranoside (3), kaempferol 3-o-α-l-arabinopyranoside, 7-o-α-l-rham...

n-Butanol was produced continuously in a two-stage fermentor system with integrated product removal from a co-feed of n-butyric acid and glucose. Glucose was always required as a source of ATP and electrons for the conversion of n-butyrate to n-butanol and for biomass growth; for the latter it also served as a carbon source. The first stage generated metabolically active planktonic cells of Clo...

This computational and theoretical study deals with chain transfer to solvent (CTS) reactions of methyl acrylate (MA), ethyl acrylate (EA), and n-butyl acrylate (n-BA) self-initiated homopolymerization in solvents such as butanol (polar, protic), methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) (polar, aprotic), and p-xylene (nonpolar). The results indicate that abstraction of a hydrogen atom from the methylene group...

Pervaporation (PV) has shown great potential in the separation of butanol aqueous solutions due to their economic and environmental benefits. This work applies polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composite membrane separate four isomers (n-butanol, isobutanol, sec-butanol tert-butanol) solution. Based on physical chemical properties isomers, such as solubility, polarity interaction parameter, we system...

Due to enhanced energy content and reduced hygroscopicity compared with ethanol, n-butanol is flagged as the next generation biofuel and platform chemical. In addition to conventional cellular systems, n-butanol bioproduction by enzyme cascades is gaining momentum due to simplified process control. In contrast to other bio-based alcohols like ethanol and isobutanol, cell-free n-butanol biosynth...

Use of lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia in transesterifcation reactions of ethyl hydrocinnamate with different alcohols has been examined. Among the alcohols tested, viz., n-butanol, iso-amyl alcohol, benzyl alcohol, n-octanol and 1-phenylethanol, only n-butanol yielded the transesterified product. Among the solvents tested, viz., n-heptane, n-hexane, cyclohexane, toluene, diisopropylether and n...