Porous manganese oxide spheres form readily from a reaction between KMnO4 and n-butanol in aqueous butyric acid under ambient conditions. Spheres have uniform size, tuneable diameters and high surface areas. The material is an active catalyst for the oxidation of isopropanol to acetone.

Saprolegniosis are one of the most important oomycetes affecting freshwater fish worldwide. It leads to huge losses in fish farms due to their massive destruction to the fish epidermis leading to sever heamodilution and death, yet little literature studied the oxidative stress response regarding the saprolegniosis. Nile tilapia fish were subcutaneously abraded and divided into four groups: cont...

Tungiasis (sand flea disease) is a neglected tropical disease, prevalent in resource-poor communities in South America and sub-Saharan Africa. It is caused by an inflammatory response against penetrated female sand fleas (Tunga penetrans) embedded in the skin of the host. Although associated with debilitating acute and chronic morbidity, there is no proven effective drug treatment. By consequen...

Four 25-nt long oligonucleotides containing dA and dT (D1, D2, D3, and D4) which are capable of forming parallel-stranded (ps) or antiparallel-stranded (aps) duplexes have been synthesized [Rippe, K., Ramsing, N. B., & Jovin, T. M. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 9536-9541]. In the present study, the OsO4-pyridine complex (Os,py), diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC), KMnO4, and the 1,10-phenanthroline-cuprous...

An essential characteristic for high performance inherently hydrophobic membranes such as microporous high density polyethylene (HDPE) membranes is to have a hydrophilic surface. In this project, wet chemical functionalization as a facile and effective method was developed to give a hydrophilic property to HDPE membranes using polar functional groups. KClO3, K2Cr2O7 and KMnO4 were selected as o...

In this study, corn cob was used as raw material and modified methods employing KOH KMnO4 were to prepare activated carbon with high adsorption capacity for mercury ions. Experiments on the effects of different influencing factors ions undertaken. The results showed that when KOH, optimal time 120 min, optimum pH 4; KMnO4, 60 3, amount adsorbent initial concentration both 0.40 g/L 100 mg/L unde...

Neat chlorosulfonic acid reacts with anhydrous sodium tungstate to give tungstate sulfuric acid (TSA), a new dibasic inorganic solid acid in which two sulfuric acid molecules connect to a tungstate moiety via a covalent bond. A variety of oximes were oxidized to their parent carbonyl compounds under mild conditions with excellent yields in short times by a heterogeneous wet TSA/KMnO4 in dichlor...

MnO2 nanoparticle enriched poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) nanowires are fabricated by simply soaking the PEDOT nanowires in potassium permanganate (KMnO4) solution. The structures of these MnO2 nanoparticle enriched PEDOT nanowires are characterized by SEM and TEM, which show that the MnO2 nanoparticles have uniform sizes and are finely dispersed in the PEDOT matrix. The chemical cons...

Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) and oleic acid (OA) were purchased from Alfa Aesar. Glutathione (GSH), 3-(4,5-dimethylthialzol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT), alpha lipoic acid (ALA), buthionine sulfoximine (BS) and N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX) was purchased from Dingguo reagent company (Beijing, China). All buffers were p...