An o-nitrobenzyl-protected precursor was used as a phototrigger for the release of diamine cadaverine in polyurethane adhesives based on castor oil renewable source polyol and organic diisocyanates. This resulted formulations with suitably controlled curing by photoactivation. material shows faster when UV light is applied compared to absence irradiation, which situ monitored rheological measur...

Uncharged receptors for anions and cations have many potential applications ranging from membrane transport carriers for ion-selective electrodes to reaction catalysts.1 As a consequence, there is a need to design and synthesize neutral receptors with high binding affinities and/ or high binding selectivities. Unlike cation receptors, there are essentially no examples of biotic, low molecular w...

Automated adaptations of dithionite and urea-dithionite tube tests are accurate, reliable, inexpensive methods for detecting hemoglobin S. More than 3,000 individuals have been screened (120 determinations per hour; reagent cost, 2 to 4 cents per test). The dithionite reagent consists of potassium phosphate, sodium dithionite, and saponin. When S hemoglobin contacts this reagent, the red cells ...

Osmolytes are an integral part of living organism, e.g., the kidney uses sorbitol, trimethylglycine, taurine and myo-inositol to counter the deleterious effects of urea and salt. Therefore, knowing that the osmolytes' act either directly to the protein or mediated through water is of great importance. Our experimental and computational results show that protecting osmolytes, e.g., trimethylglyc...

The title compound, C(9)H(12)N(4)O(4)S, was proven to be the product of the reaction of methyl 5-amino-1H-pyrazole-3-carboxyl-ate with ethyl isothio-cyanato-carbonate. All non-H atoms of the mol-ecule are planar, the mean deviation from the least squares plane being 0.048 Å. The intra-molecular N-H⋯O bond involving the NH-group, which links the thio-urea and pyrazole fragments, closes a six-mem...

The conformational preorganization and anion-induced conformational changes of indole-based receptors functionalized with an amide group at the 2-position and a variety of amide, urea and thiourea moieties at the 7-position have been studied by the means of NMR spectroscopy. NOE experiments showed that anti-anti orientation across C2-C2alpha and C7-N7alpha bonds is preferred for receptors 1-4 i...

Methylolurea and carbamide were used to impregnate eucalyptus wood to improve its physical and chemical properties. The physical properties and dimensional stability were examined. TGA was used to evaluate the thermal stability of the wood. FTIR was used to state the changes of functional groups. The changes of wood structure were observed by SEM. The results showed the bending strength and com...

Examination of local folding and H-bonding patterns in model compounds can be extremely informative to gain insight into the propensity of longer-chain oligomers to adopt specific folding patterns (i.e. foldamers) based on remote interactions. Using a combination of experimental techniques (i.e. X-ray diffraction, FT-IR absorption and NMR spectroscopy) and theoretical calculations at the densit...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(11)H(12)BrClN(2)OS, consists of two crystallographically independent mol-ecules. In each mol-ecule, the butano-ylthio-urea unit is nearly planar, with maximum deviations of 0.1292 (19) and 0.3352 (18) Å from the mean plane defined by nine non-H atoms, and is twisted relative to the terminal benzene ring with dihedral angles of 69.26 (7) and 82.41 (7)...

In the title rhodium(I) complex, [RhCl(C(8)H(12))(C(5)H(12)N(2)S)], N,N'-diethyl-thio-urea acts as a monodenate S-donor ligand. The rhodium(I) coordination sphere is completed by the Cl atom and the COD [= 1,5-cyclo-octa-diene] ligand inter-acting through the π-electrons of the double bonds. If the midpoints of these two bonds are taken into account, the Rh atom exhibits a distorted square-plan...