Immobilization of lipases has proved to be a useful technique for improving an enzyme's activity in organic solvents. In the present study, the performance of a silica-immobilized lipase was evaluated for the synthesis of isopropyl ferulate in DMSO. The biocatalyst was cross-linked onto the matrix with 1% glutaraldehyde. The effects of various parameters, molar ratio of ferulic acid to isopropy...

Quasi solid state dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have been fabricated with electrolytes containing I−/I3 redox couple using 80 % hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) doped with potassium iodide (KI) and a mixture of potassium iodide and tetrapropyl ammonium iodide (Pr4NI) salts. The quasi solid state gel polymer electrolytes were prepared using 1:1 ethylene carbonate (EC):propylene carbonate ...

The aim of this study was to measure the role of the duodenal loop in biliopancreatic secretion in man by infusing various stimuli at the ampulla of Vater and collecting duodenal contents at the ligament of Treitz, above an occluding balloon. Perfusion at 10 ml/min of a first mixture of aminoacids - phenylalanine (47.2 mmol), methionine (38.2 mmol), tryptophan (11 mmol), valine (61.6 mmol) - in...

This study aimed at investigating the antifungal activity of sourdough fermented (Lactobacillus plantarum LB1 and Lactobacillus rossiae LB5) wheat germ (SFWG). Preliminarily, methanol and water/salt-soluble extracts from SFWG were assayed by agar diffusion towards Penicillium roqueforti DPPMAF1. As shown by hyphal radial growth rate, the water/salt-soluble extract showed the inhibition of vario...

The title salt, C(14)H(31)N(2) (+)·C(15)H(9)O(7) (-), was obtained in the reaction of quercetin with n-butyl-amine in a mixture of acetone and hexane. The crystal structure determination shows that the quercetin donates one of its phenol H atoms to the N-butyl-4-butyl-imino-2-methyl-pentan-2-amine mol-ecule. The crystal structure of the salt is stabilized by intramolecular (N-H⋯N for the cation...

Easily obtainable cyclic enaminones (piperidin-2-ylidenealkanones) can be transformed into substituted bicyclic pyridazinium tetrafluoroborates upon treatment with corresponding diazonium salts. The transformation can be performed either in a one-pot way or in a two-step process with the isolation of single azo-coupled enaminone as the intermediate. The former method is superior. Under the opti...

This study reports the synthesis of morphology-controlled BaTiO(3) nanostructures such as spherical, cube-shaped and rod-shaped BaTiO(3) using a molten-salt synthesis method. This method synthesized products from a reaction of BaO/BaCO(3) and TiO(2) with a eutectic mixture of NaCl-KCl flux at 700 degrees C for 1 h. The experiment used powder X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron m...

The present work aimed to develop a novel strategy to bioremediate the petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants in the environment. Salt tolerant bacterium was isolated from Dagang oilfield, China and identified as Corynebacterium variabile HRJ4 based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. The bacterium had a high salt tolerant capability and biochar was developed as carrier for the bacterium. The bacte...

In this study, the effect of nanoparticle concentration was tested for both CuO and TiO₂ in eutectic mixture of sodium and potassium nitrate. Results showed an enhancement in specific heat capacity (Cp) for both types of nanoparticles (+10.48% at 440 °C for 0.1 wt % CuO and +4.95% at 440 °C for 0.5 wt % TiO₂) but the behavior toward a rise in concentration was different with CuO displaying its ...

Labelling of Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown in 0.7 M NaCl with 35S-methionine revealed a 5-6 fold lowering of the methionine incorporation into protein, which could not be attributed solely to the approximately 50% longer generation time of cells grown in 0.7 M NaCl. Subsequent studies of the high affinity methionine uptake system showed a strongly reduced uptake of methionine during growth in ...