OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship among male age, strict morphology, and sperm chromatin structure and condensation. METHODS Sperm samples from a total of 100 men underwent semen analysis, and sperm chromatin structure and condensation were assessed with toluidine blue (TB) and aniline blue (AB) tests. RESULTS Prevalence of strict morphology of less than...

Rubrivivax benzoatilyticus JA2 and other anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria produce indole derivatives when exposed to aniline, a xenobiotic compound. Though this phenomenon has been reported previously, the role of aniline in the production of indoles is still a biochemical riddle. The present study aims at understanding the specific role of aniline (as precursor or stimulator) in the producti...

Infrared photodissociation spectra of aniline+–M (M = thiophene, furan and phenol) are measured in the 2700–3700 cm–1 region and analyzed by density functional theory calculations. Only a structure with a π-type hydrogen bond is found for aniline+–thiophene. Two structural isomers are identified for aniline+–furan and aniline+–phenol, which have either a π-type or a σ-type hydrogen bond, where ...

Aniline-methanol mixed clusters are ionized by single photon vacuum ultraviolet (VUV, 118 nm) radiation with which absorption to an excited intermediate S(1) state is not required. Aniline ion (An(+)), a series of (An)(n)(+)-(CH(3)OH)(m) (n = 1, 2) cluster ions, and their hydrogenated cluster ions, (An)(n)(+)-(CH(3)OH)(m)H (n = 1, 2) are observed by mass spectrometry. Infrared (IR) absorption s...

Fluorescence yield near-edge spectroscopy (FYNES) above the carbon K edge and temperature programmed reaction spectroscopy (TPRS) have been used as the methods for characterizing the reactivity and structure of adsorbed aniline and aniline derived species on the Ni(100) and Ni(111) surfaces over an extended range of temperatures and hydrogen pressures. The Ni(100) surface shows appreciably high...

The title compound, C(18)H(12)N(6)O(6), was prepared from the reaction of 4-(phenyl-diazen-yl)aniline (aniline yellow) with picryl-sulfonic acid. The dihedral angle formed by the two benzene rings of the diphenyl-diazenyl ring system is 6.55 (13)° and that formed by the rings of the picrate-aniline ring system is 48.76 (12)°. The mol-ecule contains an intra-molecular aniline-nitro N-H⋯O hydroge...

The oxidation of aniline to azobenzene was conducted in the presence of either monolayer graphene (EG) or graphene-oxide-like surface, such as GOx, under ultra-high vacuum conditions maintaining a 365-nm UV light exposure to enhance the oxidation reaction. The surface-bound products were investigated using micro Raman spectroscopy, high-resolution photoemission spectroscopy, and work function m...

Increasing numbers of workers in industry are working a novel or unusual 12-hr workshift in which the exposure time is longer and the recovery period is shorter than for a standard 8-hr workshift. Experiments were conducted to examine the effects of altering the exposure schedule of rats from 8 hr/day for 5 days to 12 hr/day for 4 days on the toxicity resulting from the inhalation of aniline at...