BACKGROUND An association of acetaminophen use and asthma was observed in the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood study. However there are no clear mechanisms to explain an association between acetaminophen use and immunologic pathology. In acidic conditions like those in the stomach and inflamed airway, tyrosine residues are nitrated by nitrous and peroxynitrous acids. The...

Dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) has been developed for preconcentration and determination of tramadol, ((±)-cis-2-[(dimethylamino)methyl]-1-(3-methoxyphenyl)cyclohexanol-HCl), in aqueous and biological samples (urine, blood). DLLME is a simple, rapid and efficient method for determination of drugs in aqueous samples. Eff...

The preparation and full characterization of the 4-(nitrophenyl)phenoxyl radical, 2,6-di-(t)butyl-4-(4'-nitrophenyl) phenoxyl radical ((t)Bu2NPArO(•)) is described. This is a rare example of an isolable and crystallographically characterized phenoxyl radical and is the only example in which the parent phenol is also crystallographically well-defined. Analysis of EPR spectra indicates some spin ...

Five oxovanadium(IV) complexes, which were divided into two groups, [V(IV)O(bhbb, nhbb)(H(2)O)(2)] (tridentate ligands: H(2)bhbb = 2-(5-bromo-2-hydroxylbenzylideneamino)benzoic acid, 1; H(2)nhbb = 2-(5-nitro-2-hydroxylbenzylideneamino)benzoic acid, 2) and [V(IV)O(cpmp, bpmp, npmp)(2)] (bidentate ligands: Hcpmp = 4-chloro-2-((phenylimino)methyl)phenol, 3; Hbpmp = 4-bromo-2-((phenylimino)methyl)p...

Alkyl substituted 2-halogen-4-nitro-phenols (like bromonitrothymol) are potent inhibitors of photosynthetic electron flow in chloroplasts. There inhibition site is identical to that of DCMU, though the phenols do not contain their essential chemical element responsible for inhibition nor do they follow their correlation of chemical structure and biochemical function. Binding of labelled metribu...

Light-induced nitration pathways of phenols are important processes for the transformation of pesticide-derived secondary pollutants into toxic derivatives in surface waters and for the formation of phytotoxic compounds in the atmosphere. Moreover, phenols can be used as ˙NO(2) probes in irradiated aqueous solutions. This paper shows that the nitration of 4-chlorophenol (4CP) into 2-nitro-4-chl...

We developed a direct, simple, and sensitive procedure for the simultaneous colorimetric assay of iron and copper in serum, using sodium dodecyl sulfate-ascorbic acid to dissociate iron and copper from transferrin and ceruloplasmin, respectively. We also use a new water-soluble reagent, 2-(5-nitro-2-pyridylazo)-5-(N-propyl-N-sulfopropylamino)phenol disodium salt (nitro-PAPS) and thioglycolic ac...

Water pollution damages the aquatic environment due to presence of organic contaminants, which in turn is distressing ecosystem. Photocatalytic activity a greener and promising method degrade these contaminants. In this research, we present degradation diverse water pollutants through zinc/iron oxide nanoparticles serving as photocatalysts. The photocatalyst was studied for its efficiency photo...