Of two sensitive complexometric reagents for the colorimetry of serum zinc that we investigated, one, 2-(5-bromo-2-pyridylazo)-5-diethylaminophenol (Br-PADAP), was found to be a potentially useful compound for trace-metal determinations. It has a high molar absorptivity (120 000 L mol-1 cm-1) but is not convenient to use because it is not very soluble in water. The other reagent, a related pyri...

Sulfur-limited batch enrichment cultures containing one of nine multisubstituted naphthalenesulfonates and an inoculum from sewage yielded several taxa of bacteria which could quantitatively utilize 19 sulfonated aromatic compounds as the sole sulfur source for growth. Growth yields were about 4 kg of protein per mol of sulfur. Specific degradation rates were about 4 to 14 mu kat/kg of protein....

In the title compound, C(22)H(21)NO(5)S, the 2-naphthol group and the thio-phene ring are almost coplanar, with a dihedral angle of 5.75 (7)°. The structure is stabilized by intra-molecular O-H⋯O, O-H⋯N and C-H⋯S, and inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions.