Flow cytometry can rapidly quantitate bacteria and discriminate them from debris. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag, Switzerland) have developed a standard flow cytometric staining protocol and a corresponding BD AccuriTM C6 software analysis template to discriminate bacteria from debris in drinking water samples. The template employs a single, ...

na2so4 as an inexpensive and effective catalyst has provided a green protocol for the synthesis of tetrahydrobenzo[b]pyran, pyrano[2,3-d]pyrimidinone and dihydropyrano[3,2c]chromene derivatives from the three-component domino reaction of aromatic aldehydes and malononitrile with 4-hydroxycoumarin/ dimedone/ barbituric acid in ethanol/water as a mixture of solvent that, this mixture entirely is ...

Employing a green and efficient 2,2,2trifluoroacetophenone-catalyzed oxidation of alkenes, which utilizes H2O2 as the green oxidant, a novel and sustainable synthesis of indolines and pyrrolidines was developed. This constitutes a cheap, general and environmentally-friendly protocol for the synthesis of substituted nitrogen-containing heterocycles. A variety of substitution patterns, both aroma...

This work reports the synthesis of quinazolines from 2-aminobenzylamines with N-substituted benzylamines in the presence of molecular iodine. The developed methodology works smoothly under transition-metal free, additive free and solvent free conditions. The use of O2 as a green oxidant makes it a greatly economical, green and sustainable protocol. Moreover, no aqueous work up is required there...

Traditional manual sugarcane harvesting requires the pre-harvest burning practice which should be gradually banned by 2021 for most of São Paulo State, Brazil, on cultivated sugarcane land (terrain slope ≤ 12%) according to State Law number 11241. To forward the end of this practice to 2014, a “Green Ethanol” Protocol was established in 2007. The present work aims at analyzing five years of con...

An efficient and green microwave-assisted heterogeneous S-arylation protocol, reported for the first time, provided excellent coupling conversions and selectivities in minutes of reaction using Fe (homocoupling) and Cu (cross-coupling) supported metal nanoparticles.

To develop a simple, speedy, economical and widely applicable method for multiple-site mutagenesis, we have substantially modified the Quik-Change Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit protocol (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA). Our new protocol consists of (i) a PCR reaction using an in vitro technique, LDA (ligation-during-amplification), (ii) a DPN:I treatment to digest parental DNA and to make megaprimers...

A simple, highly efficient and green procedure for the condensation of o-phenylenediamines with 1, 2-dicarbonyl compounds in the presence of vitamin C, as an inexpensive organocatalyst, is described. Using this method, variety of quinoxaline derivatives with different electron releasing and electron withdrawing substituents, are produced in high to excellent yields at room temperature in ethano...

An efficient and green protocol for the synthesis of pyrazoles derivatives by one-pot reaction of different 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds with hydrazines/hydrazides has been developed using nano-sulfated zirconia, nano-structured ZnO, nano-g-alumina and nano-ZSM-5 zeolites, as the catalyst. The optical properties of the nano-structured catalysts and organic molecules were studied. The advantages of ...