Succinate is an interesting chemical for industries producing food and pharmaceutical products, surfactants, detergents and biodegradable plastics. Succinate is produced mainly by a mixed-acid fermentation process using anaerobically growing bacteria. However, succinate excretion is also widespread among fungi. In this article we report results on the intracellular concentration and the excreti...

Sodium azide has been employed as a metabolic inhibitor in a variety of studies. Stannard has described the use of this agent in distinguishing between the oxygen consumption of resting as opposed to working frog muscle (1). The increased respiration due to activity was abolished by azide, while the basal resting value was unaffected. Azide has also been shown to interfere with the phosphorylat...

Sodium azide has been employed as a metabolic inhibitor in a variety of studies. Stannard has described the use of this agent in distinguishing between the oxygen consumption of resting as opposed to working frog muscle (1). The increased respiration due to activity was abolished by azide, while the basal resting value was unaffected. Azide has also been shown to interfere with the phosphorylat...

During investigations on the role of bacterial pigments in ultraviolet irradiation damage and in photoreactivation, several agents were tested as suppressors of pigmentation effects. Chromobacterium violaceum is extremely radiosensitive in that it shows very high inactivation by ultraviolet and also high photorecovery with white light. Sodium azide depresses both of these effects significantly....

The title compound, [Mn(N(3))(2)(C(12)H(18)N(2)O)(2)]ClO(4), was synthesized from manganese(III) acetate, sodium azide and 2-[3-(dimethyl-amino)propyl-imino-meth-yl]phenol by a hydro-thermal reaction. The Mn(III) ion is hexa-coordinated by two N and two O atoms from two phenolate ligands and two N atoms from two azide ligands. The Mn(III) cation lies on an inversion centre and, as a result, the...

Methanesulfonic acid (MSA) was found to be an efficient catalyst for the synthesis of 1-substituted-1H-1,2,3,4-tetrazoles. A series of 1-substituted tetrazole compounds were synthesized from the reaction of various primary amines, sodium azide and triethyl orthoformate in the presence of catalytic amounts of MSA at room temperature. In this protocol, some of the tetrazole derivatives were synth...