A series of supramolecular diamide organogels containing a reactive compound for the remediation of organophosphorus (OP) species, in particular OP chemical warfare agents (CWAs), has been prepared in DMSO. The organogels have been found to absorb, encapsulate and decontaminate various OP CWA simulants in situ. At high simulant concentrations the gels also undergo a gel-sol transition releasing...

On the basis of optimized grinding/heating cycles developed for several phosphate-based ceramics, the preparation of brabantite and then monazite/brabantite solid solutions loaded with tetravalent thorium, uranium, and cerium (as a plutonium surrogate) was examined versus the heating temperature. The chemical reactions and transformations occurring when heating the initial mixtures of AnO2/CeO2...

Earlier works on oxidation of sulf ides, thiols, and disulf ides with both chemical and enzymic systems are reviewed. Enzymic oxidations of thiols and disulfides are compared with their chemical oxidations with N2O and H2O2 by the use of unsymmetrical disulf ides, thiolsulfinates and O18_ tracer technique. In both enzymic oxidation and that with N2O, oxidation of disulfides to thiolsulfinates i...

Selenium containing nucleosides derived from some heterocyclic moieties such as Pyridineselenol, and pyridazineselenol is described herein. Ribosylation of selenol compounds were prepared in good yield by silyation of selenol derivatives with 1-O-acetyl-2,3,5-tri-O-benzoyl-D-ribofuranose followed by debenzoylation to afford the corresponding free N-nucleosides  and -1-(2,3,5-trihydroxy--D-r...

Paper reports the results of landfill leachate treatment with membrane bioreactor, nanofiltration and ozonation. Investigated leachate encompasses a number of specific compounds of pharmaceutical origin, including a suite of by-products deriving from the production of vitamin C and propyphenazone. Low biodegradability was observed in MBR (16%) for propyphenazone, while the removal of intermedia...

A facile and convenient synthesis of a series of bisheterocycles 7a,b 10, 12 and 13a,b containing a thieno[2,3-b]thiophene base unit via the versatile, hitherto unreported 3-[3,4-dimethyl-5-(3-nitrilopropanoyl)thieno[2,3-b]thiophen-2-yl]-3-oxopropanenitrile (4) is described.

Our interest in the enzyme chemistry of compounds containing small rings developed from a speculative study of the inhibition of alcohol dehydrogenase by allylic alcohols (MacInnes et al., 1981) in which we found that 3-thioethylprop-2-en1-01 (I) was a potent inhibitor of this enzyme. Our original strategy was that oxidation of (I) would lead to an a,/?-unsaturated aldehyde to which a nucleophi...

Carboxylesterases (CE) are ubiquitous enzymes that hydrolyze numerous ester-containing xenobiotics, including complex molecules, such as the anticancer drugs irinotecan (CPT-11) and capecitabine and the pyrethroid insecticides. Because of the role of CEs in the metabolism of many exogenous and endogenous ester-containing compounds, a number of studies have examined the inhibition of this class ...

The development of isoform selective inhibitors of the carbonic anhydrase (CA; EC 4.2.1.1) enzymes represents the key approach for the successful development of druggable small molecules. Herein we report a series of new benzenesulfamide derivatives (-NH-SO₂NH₂) bearing the 1-benzhydrylpiperazine tail and connected by means of a β-alanyl or nipecotyl spacer. All compounds 6a-l were investigated...