Cloud points (CPs) of heptaoxyethylene dodecyl ether (C12E7) in the presence of varying concentrations of additives such as inorganic salts, alkanols, diols, glycols and their ethers, hydroptopes and short chain tetraalkylammonium salts are measured and the increase/decrease in CP is discussed. While inorganic anions decrease the CP due to the “salting out” (dehydration) effect and follow the H...

The binding of acetylcholine to pure lipids, and lipids, proteins and lipoproteins extracted from synaptic membranes, was investigated by monolayer and n.m.r. techniques. No specific binding of acetylcholine could be detected at the concentration used, although its muscarinic and nicotinic antagonists [atropine and (+)-tubocurarine respectively] could be shown to interact with the membrane comp...

Macromolecular crowding plays a significant role in the solubility and stability of biomacromolecules. In this work, the thermo-sensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) has been employed as a model system to study the specific ion effects on the solubility of macromolecules in crowded environments of dextran and polyethylene glycol (PEG). Our study demonstrates that crowding agents can in...

Abstract This work addresses the effect of chaotropic anions (thiocyanate and tosylate) on solubility glycine, L-leucine, L-phenylalanine, L-aspartic acid in aqueous solutions at 298.2 K. The salts used were NaSCN, KSCN, NH 4 SCN, NaC 7 H SO 3 (sodium tosylate), with salt concentrations ranging from 0 to 2 molal. pH saturated was registered, solid-phase studies also performed. All thiocyanate s...

Phase segregation in aqueous biphasic systems (ABS) composed of four hydrophilic ionic liquids (ILs): 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium methylsulfate and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium methylsulfate (C(n)C₁im C₁SO₄, n = 2 and 4), tributylmethyl phosphonium methylsulfate (P₄₄₄₁ C₁SO₄) and methylpyridinium methylsulfate (C₁Py C₁SO₄) and two high charge density potassium inorganic salts (K₂CO₃ and K₂HPO₄) ...

Seven liquid solvent systems--dichloromethane, dichloromethane-pentane (1:1), freon 113, diethyl ether-pentane (1:1 and 1:9), ethyl acetate-pentane (with and without an additional salting-out effect) (1:3 and 1:20), and seven solid-phase extraction (SPE) systems (Amberlite XAD-2, 4, 7, and 16; Porapak Q; C8; and C18)--are comparatively studied. The distribution coefficients between the extracti...

12 Salted cod is a product highly appreciated by consumers, especially in Southern Europe 13 and Latin America. In recent years there has been increasing consumer demand for 14 products with low sodium content, and this has led the salting industry to seek new salt 15 mixtures to help to reduce Na levels without producing alterations in the properties of the 16 final product. In this study, Atl...

Sorption of organic contaminants by soils is a determinant controlling their transport and fate in the environment. The influence of ionic strength on nitroaromatic compound sorption by K+- and Ca2+ -saturated smectite was examined. Sorption of 1,3-dinitrobenzene by K-smectite increased as KCl ionic strength increased from 0.01 to 0.30 M. In contrast, sorption by Ca-smectite at CaCl2 ionic stre...

OBJECTIVE Nitrobenzene extraction enhanced by salting-out effect was employed to recover aniline from wastewater at 25 degrees C. METHOD Batchwise experiments were conducted to elucidate the influence of various operating variables on the extracting performance, including acidity of wastewater, initial aniline concentration, ratios of solvent to wastewater, extraction stages, concentrations a...