The degradation of pyridine, widely used in the synthesis of vitamins, drugs, rubber chemicals, herbicides and pesticides, can be photocatalyzed by semiconductor catalysts. Since zinc oxide promotes faster pyridine photocatalytic oxidation reactions than TiO2, the former appears to be a suitable alternative to TiO2 for water treatment contaminated with pyridine. The photodegradation efficiency ...

A novel zinc porphyrin-containing polyimide (ZPCPI) nanofibrous membrane for rapid and reversible detection of trace amounts of pyridine vapor is described. The membrane displays a distinct color change, as well as dramatic variations in absorption and fluorescent emission spectra, upon exposure to pyridine vapor. This condition allows the detection of the analyte at concentrations as low as 0....

The concentration of pyridine nucleotides in the liver of the hyperthyroid rat is low (14). Whether this is a result of decreased synthesis, increased destruction, or both, is not known. Several groups of investigators have shown that when the normal rat or the normal mouse is given a single dose of nicotinamide the concentration of pyridine nucleotides in the liver rises rapidly for a few hour...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound,  Contains two independent molecules. The Cu atoms are four coordinated in distorted tetrahedral configuration by two atoms from 5,5`-dimethyl-2,2`- bipyridine and two terminal atoms. In the Cuystal structure, inter molecular hydrogen bonds link the molecules. The are  contacts between the methyl groups and the pyridine and five member rings containing ...

Recently, stable diazoalkenes have received significant attention as a new substance class in organic chemistry. While their previous synthetic access was exclusively limited to the activation of nitrous oxide, we here establish much more general approach utilizing Regitz-type diazo transfer with azides. Importantly, this is also applicable weakly polarized olefins such 2-pyridine olefins. The ...

In this protocol, 3-(2-carboxybenzoyl)-1-methyl-1H-imidazol-3-ium chloride [Cbmim]Cl and sulfonic acid functionalized pyridinium chloride [pyridine-SO3H]Cl as a new, reusable, and green Brønsted acidic ionic liquid (BAIL) catalyst were synthesized and successfully used for the one-pot ring opening of epoxide with sodium azide (NaN3) in water at room temperature. Epoxides under ring-opening easi...

Z. Naturforsch. 54 b, 13-17 (1999); received June 1, 1998 Pyridine, 2-Silyl-pyridine, 2-Germyl-pyridine, 2-Stannyl-pyridine, Molecular Structure 5-Methyl-2-trimethylsilyl-pyridine (1) has recently been prepared via the “in situ” Grignard reaction of 1-bromo-5-methyl-pyridine with magnesium and trimethylchlorosilane in refluxing tetrahydrofuran (thf) and structurally characterized. 2-Trimethylge...

Marrocchi et al. (2005) reported that low-temperature fractions of heavy noble gases were largely removed upon pyridine treatment of the Orgueil CI meteorite. As pyridine is known to induce the swelling of the macromolecular network of organic matter, they concluded that the low-temperature phase Q is macromolecular organic carbon. However, Busemann et al. (2008) showed that pyridine had no sig...

An organism capable of growth on pyridine was isolated from soil by enrichment culture techniques and identified as Micrococcus luteus. The organism oxidized pyridine for energy and released N contained in the pyridine ring as ammonium. The organism could not grow on mono- or disubstituted pyridinecarboxylic acids or hydroxy-, chloro-, amino-, or methylpyridines. Cell extracts of M. luteus coul...