Tetrazolium salts are biologically active molecules that have found broad applications in biochemical assays. A regioselective synthesis of tetrazolium salts is described through a formal (3 + 2) cycloaddition. The possibility of employing simple amides and azides as starting material and the mild conditions allow a broad functional group tolerance.

BACKGROUND To determine glycoserum, the nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) assay is quick, economical, convenient and easily automated. This method, however, is vulnerable to interference by thiol group, which should not be ignored during the analysis. METHODS Thiol group in glycoserum was blocked with iodoacetamide (IAM) before NBT was added. The reaction was carried out in a thermal bath and termi...

In order to decide whether in the bacterial cell the enzymes of the respiratory chain are located in "particulate elements" (1) or in the plasma membrane (2) we investigated the reduction of potassium tellurite in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. For the first time in 1962 (3), and in more detail in 1964 (4), we reported that with Bacillus subtilis we had found that reduction products ...

Tetrazolium salts have proved useful as indicators of electron transfer. Compounds such as triphenyltetrazolium chloride' are more practical than indicators like methylene blue since they are converted from a soluble colorless salt to an insoluble formazan in the reduced state. They also provide similar convenience in detecting enzymatic activity and specific sites of such activity (Bielig, Kau...

The possibility of application of 4-nitrocatechol (4-NC) - tetrazolium salt - organic solventsystems for liquid-liquid extraction-spectrophotometric vanadium (IV and V) speciation wasstudied. Six commercially available tetrazolium salts (2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC),3-(2-naphtyl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium chloride (Tetrazolium Violet, TV); 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazol)-2,5-diphenyltetra...

The far-infrared powder absorption spectra, between 10 cm-’ and 350 cm-‘, of seven BEDT-TTF salts that exhibit superconductivity at or near ambient pressure, have been measured as a function of temperature, between 5 K and 300 K. The temperature dependences of the peak frequencies, along with the measured deuterium isotopic frequency shifts, separated the lattice from the internal modes. The fr...

The objective was to evaluate the quality of sunflower seeds classified according their thickness and passed through seeder-fertilizer dosing system under variation travel speed. A lot M734 by passing a set oblong-hole sieves two thicknesses were selected. portion with only commercial classification also reserved, named as non-classified. biometric evaluation done sowing carried out at 5.0, 6.5...

A microbioautographic method for the identification of pteroylglutamic acid derivatives and their glutamyl conjugates is described. Chromatograms or pherograms of mixtures of the compounds are treated with chicken pancreas conjugase, followed by tetrazolium bioautography. This combined procedure allows qualitative and semi-quantitative analyses of folate compounds in biological material in the ...

Tetrazoles represent a class of five-membered heterocyclic compounds with polynitrogen electron-rich planar structural features. This special structure makes tetrazole derivatives useful drugs, explosives, and other functional materials with a wide range of applications in many fields of medicine, agriculture, material science, etc. Based on our research works on azoles and other references in ...

Tetrazolium oxidase from the blood and liver of rainbow trout was found to be genetically polymorphic. The inheritance pattern of the liver enzyme was compatible only with a one locus-two allele hypothesis. The enzymes in the blood while having an electrophoretically identical polymorphism could differ genotypically from that of the liver in a given fish. The significance of these findings to t...