Treatment of rats with phenobarbital, which stimulates the activity of the drug-metabolizing enzymes in the liver, potentiates hepatic necrosis elicited by bromobenzene and a number of other chemically inert halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons. Radioautographic studies indicate that [(14)C]bromobenzene is covalently bound at the sites of necrosis. From these results, it is inferred that the hepat...

Several 2,3-unsaturated carboxylic acids, such as trans-cinnamic acid and its derivatives, were found to be halogenated by chloroperoxidase of Caldariomyces fumago in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and either Cl- or Br-. Cinnamic acid, 4-hydroxycinnamic acid, 4-methoxycinnamic acid, and 3,4-dimethoxycinnamic acid were suitable substrates of chloroperoxidase, and were converted to 2-halo-3-hy...

The ultraviolet absorption spectra of uracil and its 5-halogenated derivatives have been in­ vestigated in regard to the electron attracting properties of the substituents. It could be shown that the position of the two absorption bands is proportional to the inverse of the electronegativity; the extinction coefficients are a linear function of the electron affinities. In this way, the red shif...

The structure-activity relationship of the cytotoxic activity of azulene and azulene derivatives was discussed, using theoretically calculated results. In order to clearly divide the azulenes into three groups according to their functional groups, the CC50, four different dipole moments (muG, muESP-G, muwand muESP-W) and heats of formation (deltaHf) of the azulenes [1-24] were separately calcul...

Numerous occupational intoxications (acute, chronic and their sequelae) may affect the central nervous system and result in a wide variety of neuropsychiatric effects, ranging from subtle behavioural disturbances to overt psychosis. Chemicals causing such manifestations include many metals and organometals (Hg, Mn, Pb, Al, Sn), pesticides (organophosphates), compounds utilised in the industrial...

A palladium-catalyzed aerobic and ligand-free Suzuki reaction in aqueous ethanol has been developed for the synthesis of N-heteroaryl substituted 9-arylcarbazolyl derivatives. A number of N-heteroaryl halides, namely 2-halogenated pyridines, 2-bromoquinoline, 5-bromopyrimidine and 2-chloropyrazine, were coupled with 4-(9H-carbazol-9-yl)phenylboronic acid (CPBA) or 9-phenyl-9H-carbazol-3-ylboron...

To provide additional evidence that several halogenated organic compounds (HOCs) found in environmental samples are natural and not industrially produced, we analyzed an archived whale oil sample collected in 1921 from the last voyage of the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan. This sample, which pre-dates large-scale industrial manufacture of HOCs, contained two methoxylated polybrominated diphenyl...

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor through which dioxins and carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons cause altered gene expression and toxicity. Ten aza-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (aza-PAHs), consisting of nitrogen substituted naphthalenes, phenanthrenes, chrysenes, and benzo[a]pyrenes (BaPs), were subjected to analysis of their structure-acti...

4-{[(4-Cyanophenyl)(4H-1,2,4-triazol-4-yl)amino]methyl}phenyl sulfamate and its ortho-halogenated (F, Cl, Br) derivatives are first-generation dual aromatase and sulfatase inhibitors (DASIs). Structure-activity relationship studies were performed on these compounds, and various modifications were made to their structures involving relocation of the halogen atom, introduction of more halogen ato...

Rhodococcus rhodochrous NCIMB13064 can dehalogenate and utilise a number of halogenated aliphatic compounds as sole carbon and energy source. Mutants of NCIMB13064 can be easily isolated with an enlarged range of 1-chloroalkane utilising ability. Dehalogenation of 1-chlorononane, 1-chlorodecane and short-chain 1-chloroalkanes (C3-C8) is encoded by the same plasmid pRTL1. However, a different ge...