A series of soft quaternary ammonium antimicrobial agents, which are analogues to currently used quaternary ammonium preservatives such as cetyl pyridinium chloride and benzalkonium chloride, were synthesized. These soft analogues consist of long alkyl chain connected to a polar headgroup via chemically labile spacer group. They are characterized by facile nonenzymatic and enzymatic degradation...

A total of 1,047 sputum samples from pulmonary tuberculosis patients was collected in cetyl pyridinium chloride-sodium chloride solution. Each sample was divided into two parts and randomly allocated for the isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with one part to be processed by the standard method and the other by a modified method. In the standard method, the samples were processed by using...

In the title molecular salt, C(6)H(8)NO(+)·Cl(-), the packing is consolidated by N-H⋯Cl and O-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds, resulting in the formation of [010] chains of alternating cations and anions.

The title compound, (C2H8N)(C7H11N2)[PbCl4], is a hybrid organic-inorganic material. It crystallizes in the space group C2/c and contains one half of a mol-ecule of lead chloride, 4-(di-methyl-amino)-pyridinium, and di-methyl-ammonium in the asymmetric unit. The crystal structure exhibits chains of lead chloride capped by 4-(di-methyl-amino)-pyridinium and di-methyl-ammoium by hydrogen bonding....

In the title compound, C(6)H(8)NO(2) (+)·Cl(-), inter-molecular O-H⋯Cl and N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds are observed in which each chloride anion links three adjacent cations into a hydrogen-bond network.