Azido Coordination, Imidazole Adducts, Structural Interconversion A number of mixed-ligand complexes of cobalt(III) containing coordinated azide ion, acetylacetonate anion and the neutral base imidazole and, having the general formula [Co(acac)2(N3)(Im)] (Im = imidazole or its derivatives) have been synthesised by the reaction of K[rrans-Co(acac)2(N3)2] with the biologically active ligand imida...

Dysoxia can be defined as ATP flux decreasing in proportion to O2 availability with preserved ATP demand. Hepatic venous beta-hydroxybutyrate-to-acetoacetate ratio (beta-OHB/AcAc) estimates liver mitochondrial NADH/NAD and may detect the onset of dysoxia. During partial dysoxia (as opposed to anoxia), however, flow may be adequate in some liver regions, diluting effluent from dysoxic regions, t...

Using a non-recirculating perfusion system, we studied the time course of ketone body output from the isolated rat liver in response to various hormones and changes in pH and redox state. The release of 3-hydroxybutyrate (3-OHB) started to be suppressed within 1 min after the addition of insulin (50 mU/ml) and kept half of the basal level even 10 min after its cessation. The addition of glucago...

As part of our interest into the bioinorganic chemistry of gallium, gallium(III) complexes of the peptide ligand N-(2-(4-imidazolyl)ethyl)pyridine-2-carboxamide (pypepH2) resembling a fragment of the metal-binding domain of bleomycins (BLMs), have been isolated. Reaction of pypepH2 with (Et4N)[GaCl4] and Ga(acac)3 [acac- is the acetylacetonate(-1) ion] affords the mononuclear complex [Ga(pypepH...

The potential of a new anionic octahedral metal complex [Ru(III)(acac)2(pz)2](-) ((-)) (pzH = pyrazole) as a ligand with a scorpionate coordination behaviour like tris(pyrazolyl)borate (tp) and reversible redox activity is presented. Trinuclear metal complexes, [Ru(III)2Zn(II)(acac)4(pz)4] () and [Ru(II)Ru(III)2(acac)4(pz)4] (), were each synthesized by the reaction of ZnCl2 or Ru3(CO)12 with [...

Vibrational coherence was observed following excitation into the lowest-energy spin-allowed 4A2 / 4T2 ligand-field absorption of Cr(acac)3. The transient kinetics were fit to a rapidly damped 164 cm 1 oscillatory component, the frequency of which is not associated with the ground state of the molecule. The signal is assigned as an excited-state vibrational coherence; the timescale of the event ...

A series of Pd/SiO2 catalysts were prepared with different Pd precursors by a dry ball-milling method and used in the catalytic oxidation lean methane at low temperature. The effect on performance was investigated state most active species probed. results indicate that is simple but rather effective to prepare for oxidation, palladium acetylacetonate an ideal precursor obtain highly Pd/SiO2-Aca...

Chemical reduction of ferric acetylacetonate (Fe(acac)3) and platinum acetylacetonate (Pt(acac)2) using polyol as a reducing agent as well as an effective surfactant, has successfully yielded monodisperse FePt nanoparticles with a size of approximately 2 nm. When annealed samples were compared to FePt nanoparticles synthesized using oleic acid and oleylamine as the surfactants under identical c...

Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra were measured on the chloroform solutions of a series of mixed-ligand diamagnetic Co(III) complexes, [Co(tfac)(n)(acac)(3-n)] (n = 0-3, tfac = 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedionato; acac = acetylacetonato). Distinct differences were observed in the VCD spectra among the geometrical isomers of the same ligand composition. Such differentiation was hardly ...