An 18-year-old girl developed acute renal failure 24 hr after ingestion of potassium dichromate. Laboratory data revealed associated intravascular haemolysis. Renal histology showed features suggestive of acute tubular necrosis. She went into diuretic phase after 11 days of oliguria and subsequently regained normal renal function. Both direct toxic damage by dichromate and intravascular haemoly...

Chromium is a widespread industrial waste. The soluble hexavalent chromium Cr (VI) is an environmental contaminant widely recognized to act as a carcinogen, mutagen and teratogen towards humans and animals. The fate of chromium in the environment is dependent on its oxidation state. Hexavalent chromium primarily enters the cells and undergoes metabolic reduction to trivalent chromium, resulting...

The asymmetric part of the title compound, (C(10)H(16)N)(2)[Cr(2)O(7)], contains one cation and a half of the dichromate dianion, which has a staggered conformation and exhibits disorder of the bridging O atom around the inversion center over two positions in a 1:1 ratio. Weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link cations and anions into a three-dimensional structure.

Sodium carbonate (commonly called as soda ash or washing soda) is the primary product of the chemical industry since the year one. It was used in antiquity for the manufacture of soap and glass, using the mineral appears in some lakes of Africa, Asia and North America being a natural soda, so-called trona (Na2CO3·NaHCO3·2H2O). In Europe, the most important was the soda ash produced in Spain, No...

1,2-Annulated pyrrolo[2,1,5-de]quinolizin-5-ones (cycl[3.3.2]azin-5-ones) 6a-6k, 8a-8b and 9 have been synthesized by one pot tandem reactions of 2-acetyl-N-phenacylpyridinium bromides (1a-1d) with electron-deficient cyclic alkenes (N-alkyl(aryl)maleimides, benzoquinones and naphthoquinone) in the presence of sodium carbonate as a base and tetrakispyridinecobalt(II) dichromate (TPCD) as an oxid...

The asymmetric unit of the hydrated title salt, (C10H28N4)[Cr2O7]2·H2O [C10H28N4 = H4(cyclam) = 1,4,8,11-tetra-azonia-cyclo-tetra-deca-ne], contains two half-cations (both completed by crystallographic inversion symmetry), two dichromate anions and one water mol-ecule. The two [CrO7]2- anions exhibit a nearly staggered conformation, with bridging angles of 133.37 (11) and 136.28 (12)°. The dist...

Soil contamination by embryonic eggs of Toxocara canis is the main source of human infection by this ascarid larvae resulting, sometimes, in the occurrence of visceral larva migrans syndrome. The objective of the present research is to determine the frequency of T. canis eggs in soil samples monthly collected in nine public places, located at the South Region of São Paulo municipality in a 18-m...

To capture global responses to metal poisoning and mechanistic insights into metal toxicity, gene expression changes were evaluated in whole adult male zebrafish following acute 24 h high dose exposure to three metals with known human health risks. Male adult zebrafish were exposed to nickel chloride, cobalt chloride or sodium dichromate at concentrations corresponding to their respective 96 h ...