In the first part of this research, extensive speciesdependent cyanide recoveries studies were performed using the approved standard methods available for determination of free cyanide. The data obtained show that serious problems are associated with both the CATC (cyanide amenable to chlorination) and WAD (weak and dissociable cyanide) methods. In the second part, a novel flow injection gas-di...

Cyanide forms an inhibitory complex with the haem d-containing E. coli catalase HPII, spectrally similar to the cyanide complex of beef liver enzyme but with absorption bands shifted 90 nm towards the red end of the spectrum. Both the Kd and Ki values are approximately 7 microM in the wild-type enzyme. The cyanide reaction is slow, with a bimolecular 'on' constant approx. 2000 x smaller than th...

Addition of Potassium cyanide to a mixture of Schiff base and lithium perchlorate afforded a-aminonitriles in high yields. Addition of potassium cyanide to a methanolic solution of Schiff base and phosphoric acid afforded a-aminonitriles. When the reaction mixture was refluxed it gave a-amino acids in high yields.

Cyanide causes toxic effects by inhibiting cytochrome c oxidase, resulting in cellular hypoxia and cytotoxic anoxia, and can eventually lead to death. Cyanide exposure can be verified by direct analysis of cyanide concentrations or analyzing its metabolites, including thiocyanate (SCN(-)) and 2-amino-2-thiazoline-4-carboxylic acid (ATCA) in blood. To determine the behavior of these markers foll...

Cyanide is a competitive inhibitor of carbon dioxide in the vitamin K-dependent glutamate carboxylase system, which plays a central role in the function of the blood clotting cascade. The mechanism of cyanide inhibition has been obscure for some time. At pH 7.2, cyanide (pKa = 9.21) will exist in solution as hydrogen cyanide to the extent of 99%. Hydrogen cyanide is linear triatomic molecule ab...

A Rhodococcus sp. UKMP-5M isolate was shown to detoxify cyanide successfully, suggesting the presence of an intrinsic property in the bacterium which required no prior cyanide exposure for induction of this property. However, in order to promote growth, Rhodococcus sp. UKMP-5M was fully acclimatized to cyanide after 7 successive subcultures in 0.1 mM KCN for 30 days. To further shorten the lag ...

Cyanide is a species of high toxicity that found mostly in industrial effluents such as electroplating, metal mining, metallurgy and metal cleaning processes. Entrance of it to existence environment contains very health hazardous. Objective of this study was the determination of efficiency of sonochemical technology for cyanide removal from aqueous solutions. In this study, it has been used fro...

Biological treatments to degrade cyanide are a powerful technology for cyanide removal from industrial wastewaters. It has been previously demonstrated that the alkaliphilic bacterium Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes CECT5344 is able to use free cyanide and several metal-cyanide complexes as the sole nitrogen source. In this work, the strain CECT5344 has been used for detoxification of the differe...

Michaels, Ruth (Columbia University, New York, N.Y.), and W. A. Corpe. Cyanide formation by Chromobacterium violaceum. J. Bacteriol. 89:106-112. 1965.-The formation of cyanide by a Chromobacterium violaceum strain was studied with growing cultures and with nonproliferating cells grown in complex and chemically defined media. Most of the cyanide was produced during the log-phase growth of the or...

Naphthimidazolium based monocationic chemodosimeters CD-1 and CD-2 undergo cyanide mediated catalytic transformation in the presence of cyanide ions (0.01% to 1% of CD-1/CD-2 concentrations) with a turnover number from 70 to 360. These chemodosimeters can detect as low as 0.5 nM and 1 nM cyanide ions under nearly physiological conditions (HEPES buffer-DMSO (5%), pH 7.4). The structures of CD-1 ...