The effect of various concentrations of divalent cations on survival of gonococci in liquid medium was studied. The growth of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was inhibited by manganous chloride in concentrations above 1 X 10(-5)mol/l while the growth of control organisms such as Neisseria meningitidis and Escherichia coli was not inhibited by the same salt even at 1 X 10(-2)mol/l. Copper sulphate, cobalt...

Effects of physical environment on plasma membrane semipermeability and osmotic induction of changes in aqueous cytoplasmic volume were studied in vegetative and spore cells of a plant pathogenic fungus, Fusarium sulphureum. A direct method, employing a spin probe molecule that partitioned between intracellular aqueous and hydrophobic phases, allowed measurement of reversible water movement out...

In the previous papers,TAKAHASHI et al.1,2)reported the effects of divalent transition metals,such as Co and Ni on the excitation mechanism of the myelinated nerve fibre.According to their observations,the main features of the effects of these metals are(a)increase in the rheobase,(b)enormous prolongation of the action current or potential forming a 'plateau' and (c) formation of a marked 'shou...

In the title compound, [Ni(C(5)H(6)O(4))(2)(C(10)H(10)N(3))(2)]·6H(2)O, divalent nickel ions situated on the crystallographic twofold axis are octa-hedrally coordinated by four O atoms from two dimethyl-malonate ligands in a 1,3-chelating mode and two N atoms from two protonated monodentate 4,4'-dipyridylamine mol-ecules. The mol-ecules link into chains via N-H⋯O hydrogen bonding mediated by pr...

New nickel-deficient stannides Eu2Ni2−xSn5 were synthesized by induction melting of the elements in sealed tantalum tubes. The solid solution was studied by X-ray powder diffraction and two crystal structures were refined on the basis of X-ray diffractometer data: Cmcm, a = 466.03(4), b = 3843.1(8), c = 462.92(9) pm, wR2 = 0.0469, 692 F2 values, 39 variables for Eu2Ni1.49(1)Sn5 and a = 466.11(9...

The mixed Co(II)/Ni(II) complex, [Co2.67Ni1.33L₄(CH₃COO)₂][BPh₄]₂·0.75H₂O where HL = 4-(salicylaldimine)antipyrine, was isolated as an orange solid from the reaction of 4-(salicylaldimine)antipyrine, with mixed cobalt(II) acetate and nickel(II) acetate in ethanol. The complex was characterized by Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR), UltraViolet Visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis), X-ray singl...

Two novel pyridine pendant-armed macrocycles structurally reinforced by an ethyl bridge, either between adjacent nitrogens (for side-bridged) or non-adjacent nitrogens (for cross-bridged), have been synthesized and complexed with a range of transition metal ions (Co2+, Ni2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+). X-ray crystal structures of selected cross-bridged complexes were obtained which showed the characteristi...

A method for the simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of the divalent ions of iron, cobalt, nickel and copper based on the formation of their complexes with 1,5-bis(di-2-pyridylmethylene) thiocarbonohydrazide (DPTH) is proposed. The resolution of quaternary mixtures of these metallic ions was accomplished by several chemometric approaches. A comparative study of the results obtained fo...

The human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum secretes various intra-and extra-cellular proteins during its asexual life cycle in human RBC. Histidine rich protein-II (HRP-II) is one of the most prominent proteins, found to be secreted by P. falciparum throughout the asexual cycle with the peak during mature schizont stage of the parasite development in human IRBC. The high histidine conten...

Novel Mannich base derivatives of Benzimidazole were prepared through the condensation reaction of benzimidazole derivative with formaldehyde and primary and/ secondary amine. Zinc(II), copper(II), nickel(II) and cobalt(II) complexes of Mannich bases have also been synthesized. All the compounds were fully characterized by, elemental analyses, magnetic moment determination, molar conductivity m...