A series of hydrophobic task-specific ionic liquids designed to extract Hg2+ and Cd2+ from water were prepared by appending urea-, thiourea-, and thioether-substituted alkyl groups to imidazoles and combining the resulting cationic species with PF6-. The new ionic liquids were characterized and investigated for their metal ion extraction capabilities. When used in liquid/liquid extraction of Hg...

An environmentally safe, efficient, and economical microwave-assisted technique was selected for the production of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). To prepare uniformly disseminated AgNPs, xanthan gum (XG) utilized as both a reducing capping agent. UV–Vis spectroscopy used to characterize formed XG-AgNPs, with absorption band regulated at 414 nm under optimized parameters. Atomic force microscopy ...

New colorimetric receptors R1 and R2 with varied positional substitution of a cyano and nitro signaling unit having a hydroxy functionality as the hydrogen bond donor site have been designed, synthesized and characterized by FTIR, 1H NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. The receptors R1 and R2 exhibit prominent visual response for F- and AcO- ions allowing the real time analysis of these ion...

Water-soluble CdTe quantum dots (QDs) have been utilized as photoluminescence probes for the detection of metal ions such Pb2+, Hg2+, Cd2+, etc. We initially developed highly (PL) Zn-doped toxic detection. A study on changes optical properties and QDs when exposed to Pb2+ suggested that could act a surface passivating agent reduce Te2- dangling bonds while Zn2+ dopant stabilizes against ambient...

Blood coagulation is initiated when plasma factor VII(a) binds to its essential cofactor tissue factor (TF) and proteolytically activates factors X and IX. Progressive inhibition of TF activity occurs upon its addition to plasma. This process is reversible and requires the presence of VII(a), catalytically active Xa, Ca2+, and another component that appears to be associated with the lipoprotein...

In this study, a colorimetric discrimination of Pd2+ and Hg2+ ions in the solvent solid film states one silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) sensing system is presented. First, were prepared by reducing AgNO3 with sodium borohydride presence chitosan different organic acids, including acetic acid, propanedioic citric acid. The addition acids allowed for surface plasmon resonance (SPR) intensity size di...

We report two ESIPT active novel fluorescent probes, 1 and 2, based on benzoxazole benzimidazole units, respectively. Their sensing aptitude towards metal ions in aqueous media is reported. A specific response of to Al3+ and, a lesser extent, Zn2+, was found, while the emission 2 highly impacted by Al3+, Cu2+, Fe2+ Fe3+ either blue shift or quenching emission. Emission also shows relative sensi...

A DNA-Au NP probe for sensing Hg2+ using the formation of DNA-Hg2+ complexes through thymidine (T)-Hg2+ -T coordination to control the negative charge density of the DNA strands-thereby varying their structures-adsorbed onto Au NPs.