Microbial iron transport compounds, belonging either to the hydroxamate family excreted by pseudomonads, or to the phenolate family excreted by salmonellae, reverse the bacteriostatic effect of conalbumin on the growth of these bacteria in egg white. The presence of microgram quantities of these compounds permits both salmonellae and pseudomonads to reach dense populations in egg white. The rol...

The iron binding properties and antioxidant activities of compounds with hydroxy-keto binding sites, 3-hydroxychromone, 5-hydroxychromone, and sulfonated morin were investigated. For these compounds, prevention of iron-mediated DNA damage and kinetics of Fe(II) oxidation were studied in aqueous solutions close to physiological pH (pH 6). 3-Hydroxychromone and sulfonated morin inhibit iron-media...

were noticed all along in these samples. It is unusual to find the presence of stable iron compounds in the surface waters of a lake. Twenty samples of water drawn from the second valve were analysed and showed signs of growth, as well as decay, of low forms of vegetable life and the presence of iron sufficient to choke the filter beds and to foster the growth of Crenothrix, one of the clogging...

The title dinitrosyl iron diphosphane complex, [Fe(NO)(2)(C(18)H(12)Cl(3)P)(2)] or Fe(NO)(2)L(2) [L = P(C(6)H(4)-p-Cl)(3)] belongs to the family of metal dinitrosyl compounds with the general formula Fe(NO)(2)(L)(x), referred to collectively as dinitrosyl iron compounds (DNICs). The iron atom is tetra-hedrally coordinated by two phosphane ligands and two NO groups with Fe-N-O bond angles of 178...

The relationship between the oral efficacy and the acute toxicity of hydroxypyridin-4-one iron chelators has been investigated to clarify structure-function relationships of these compounds in vivo and to identify compounds with the maximum therapeutic safety margin. By comparing 59Fe excretion following oral or intraperitoneal administration of increasing doses of each chelator to iron-overloa...

1. Experiments are presented which show that the latent period in the photosensory response of Ciona is inversely proportional to the duration of the exposure period to light. From this it is found that the velocity of the chemical reaction which determines the latent period is directly proportional to the concentration of photochemical products formed during the exposure period. This is interp...

Using linear response approach to the Mössbauer isomer shift, the calibration constant alpha((57)Fe) was obtained from high level ab initio calculations carried out for a representative set of iron compounds. The importance of the effects of relativity and electron correlation for an accurate description of the (57)Fe isomer shift is demonstrated on the basis of the Hartree-Fock, coupled cluste...

The title compound, [Fe(NO)(2)(C(21)H(21)P)(2)], belongs to the family of metal dinitrosyl compounds with the general formula Fe(NO)(2)(L)(x), referred to collectively as 'dinitrosyl iron compounds' (DNICs). Herein we report the structure of a dinitrosyl iron diphosphane complex, [Fe(NO)(2)L(2)], with L = P(C(6)H(4)-p-CH(3))(3). There are two crystallographically independent but chemically equa...