BACKGROUND The increasing prevalence of obesity is considered a serious global health threat. Mainly due to change of diet and reduced physical activity, obesity is an important risk factor for chronic diseases. A higher level of cytokines and a general inflammatory state has also been associated with this condition. With this regard, potential anti-obesity compounds with anti-inflammatory prop...

A comprehensive suite of vertically-resolved volatile organic compound (VOC) measurements were conducted at the Bolder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) in Erie, Colorado from 18 February to 13 March 2011 as part of the Nitrogen, Aerosol Composition, and Halogens on a tall tower (NACHTT) campaign. The main purpose of this experiment was to investigate and quantify the contribution of monoterpene ox...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) react with atmospheric OH, NO 3 , and O to form having lower volatility, contributing secondary aerosols (SOAs). Consequently, characterizing the reaction intermediate for this is essential modeling formation of SOAs. Herein, we proposed a mechanism ozonolysis p ‐cymene calculated energies intermediates generated during each step by density functional theory (D...

The study was designed to determine the chemical composition and antimicrobial properties of the essential oil of Thymus vulgaris cultivated in Romania. The essential oil was isolated in a yield of 1.25% by steam distillation from the aerial part of the plant and subsequently analyzed by GC-MS. The major components were p-cymene (8.41%), γ-terpinene (30.90%) and thymol (47.59%). Its antimicrobi...

Dissolution with suitable solvents is one of the cheapest and more efficient processes for polystyrene waste management. In this work the solubility of polystyrene foams in several solvents benzene, toluene, xylene, tetrahydrofuran, chloroform, 1,3-butanediol, 2-butanol, linalool, geraniol, d-limonene, p-cymene, terpinene, phellandrene, terpineol, menthol, eucalyptol, cinnamaldheyde, nitrobenze...

Examples of singly-metallated derivatives of 1,1'-bis(o-carborane) have been prepared and spectroscopically and structurally characterised. Metallation of [7-(1'-1',2'-closo-C2B10H11)-7,8-nido-C2B9H10](2-) with a {Ru(p-cymene)}(2+) fragment affords both the unisomerised species [1-(1'-1',2'-closo-C2B10H11)-3-(p-cymene)-3,1,2-closo-RuC2B9H10] (2) and the isomerised [8-(1'-1',2'-closo-C2B10H11)-2...