BACKGROUND Cyanide is a toxic agent, and its detoxification product, thiocyanate, may be a major pathogenetic substance in uraemia. Recent studies examining the myeloperoxidase(MPO)/thiocyanate system have suggested a link between thiocyanate and atherosclerosis. However, inaccuracies in conventional assays for cyanide and thiocyanate have limited the understanding of their metabolism in haemod...

A laboratory-scale Activated Sludge System (ASS) was employed for the biodegradation of coke wastewater, which contains high concentrations of ammonium, thiocyanate, phenols and other organic compounds. The well-known kinetics models of Monod or Haldane are not very useful due to inhibition phenomena amongst the pollutants and also, they need the determination of a wide range of parameters to b...

a kinetic spectrophotometric method for rapid measurement of thiocyanate in serum, urine and sewage water with no need for removed of interfering substances in described. the method is based on the inhibitory effect of thiocyanate on the oxidation of pyrogallol red by bromated and nitrite which is monitored at 467 nm. the variables affecting the rate of the reaction were investigated and the op...

The effect of ammonium thiocyanate (NH4SCN) on the behavior hydrogen entry into low alloy steel under cathode charging was investigated using electrochemical permeation technique. In this study, sides were polarized galvanostatically to control rate evolution reaction. potential, current density and measured at pH 3.0 in acetic buffer solution with without 3 g·L?1 NH4SCN. From Tafel slope react...

The extensive pharmacological applications of the pyrazole-based compounds stimulated us to synthesize highly functionalized, pyrazolylmalonyl diisothiocyanate derivative (2) via treating 2-((1,3-diphenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)methylene)malonyl dichloride (1) with ammonium thiocyanate in acetonitrile at room temperature. 2 was subsequently conducted a double molar ratio different nitrogen nucleophile...

In a previous report (1) we have shown that a small fraction of the sulfur of injected thiocyanate is converted to sulfate by the rat. The conversion of thiocyanate to sulfate had been predicted to occur as the result of the physiological activity of thiocyanate ion which is known to be a goitrogen and a hypotensive agent. Our results could not be taken as unequivocal evidence for the metabolis...

Thiocyanate hydrolase (TCH) is a pink bacterial metalloenzyme found in Thiobacillus thioparus THI 115 that catalyzes the conversion of thiocyanate to carbonyl sulfide and ammonia.1,2 Although TCH has not been well characterized spectroscopically, an analysis of the genes encoding for the enzyme has shown a high active-site sequence homology to the metalloenzyme nitrile hydratase (NHase), includ...

Carboxyhaemoglobin and plasma thiocyanate concentrations were measured in 79 non-smokers and 360 cigarette smokers. The mean levels were 0.73% and 7.09% carboxyhaemoglobin and 40 . 2 and 133 . 8 mumol thiocyanate/1 plasma respectively. With 1 . 6% carboxyhaemoglobin and 73 . 0 mumol thiocyanate/1 plasma as critical values the concentrations of carboxyhaemoglobin in 96.6% of subjects and of thio...