Fabrication and characterization of a new amperometric chemosensor for accurate formaldehyde analysis based on platinized gold electrodes is described. The platinization process was performed electrochemically on the surface of 4 mm gold planar electrodes by both electrolysis and cyclic voltamperometry. The produced electrodes were characterized using scanning electron microscopy and X-ray spec...

A 4-amino-1,2,4-triazole (NH2-trz) based linear trinuclear Fe(ii) complex of [Fe3(NH2-trz)6(SCN)4(H2O)2](SCN)2·H2O (1) has been hydrothermally synthesized by the reaction of a NH2-trz ligand with FeSO4. A single crystal of complex 1 is able to extrude one lattice water and one coordinated water, leading to another single crystal of complex 1a with a formula [Fe3(NH2-trz)6(SCN)5(H2O)](SCN) by he...

A new bispyrenyl azadiene derivative has been synthesized and examined for its cation recognition abilities toward different cations. The ligand shows strong affinity for Hg(2+) ions over other cations such as Cu(2+), Pb(2+), Zn(2+), Ni(2+), Cd(2+), Ag(+), K(+), Na(+) and Li(+). An "Off-On" type of fluorescent behaviour was observed with simultaneous presence of Cu(2+) and Hg(2+) ions. An ion s...

Background: Benzoxazole-containing ligands find many applications both in medicinal chemistry, catalysis and fluorescence chemosensing. macrocycles could be therefore a good strategy to achieve stable selective fluorescent complexes with suitable metal ions. In this work, the synthesis, binding, photochemical properties of new ligand (L) are reported. L is cyclophane macrocycle containing 1,3-b...

By nonenzymatic model reactions, the influence o f vanadium (V 0 2+, V 0 3~) and other metal ions (A l3+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Zn2+, N i2+, Cr3+) on the transamination of 4,5-dioxovaleric acid (D O VA) with L-alanine (A la ) to 6 -aminolevulinic acid (<5-ALA) and pyruvic acid (P A ) with pyridoxal phosphate (P L P ) is investigated. The examinations o f the partial reactions show that V 0 2+, V 0 3~ and...

A 150-kDa transferrin-like protein (Ttf) is associated with the plasma membrane of the halotolerant unicellular alga Dunaliella salina (Fisher, M., Gokhman, I., Pick, U., and Zamir, A. (1997) J. Biol. Chem. 272, 1565-1570). The Ttf level rises with medium salinity or upon iron depletion. Evidence that Ttf is involved in iron uptake by Dunaliella is presented here. Algal iron uptake exhibits cha...

A chemoselective sensor for the citrate anion has been devised, based on a new europium complex that offers ratiometric analysis of the long-lived emission.

N-rich metal-free and metal-doped carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have been prepared through one-step hydrothermal method using tetraphenylporphyrin or its transition metal (Pd or Pt) complex as precursor. The structures and morphology of the as-prepared nanoparticles were analyzed by X-ray diffraction, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Fourier t...