Introduction: The survivability of carbonaceous compounds during hypervelocity impacts has particular importance in exobiology, astrobiology, and origin of life studies. The delivery of biotic organics such as amino acids, which are found in meteorites [1], during impact is an important hypothesis for the source of life's early organics [2]. Furthermore, trapping or preservation of target organ...

Here we report the production of highly thermal stable and functional cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and nanofibrils (CNF) by hydrolysis using concentrated organic acids. Due to their low water solubility, these solid organic acids can be easily recovered after hydrolysis reactions through crystallization at a lower or ambient temperature. When dicarboxylic acids were used, the resultant CNC surf...

In the preceding paper on the behavior of pooled normal human serum albumin in various buffers at pH 4.0 (1)) it was demonstrated that the electrophoretic pattern of albumin shows a single moving boundary in the presence of the lower fatty acids, excepting formic and acetic acid, and of certain diand tribasic organic acids. This phenomenon is probably a consequence of the interaction between th...

the purpose of this study was to determine the therapeutic efficacy of citric and tartaric acids on experimental dermatophytosis in guinea pigs. in this study, the susceptibility of trichophyton mentagrophytes var. mentagrophytes to citric and tartaric acids was assessed using the macrodilution broth method. in the animal experiments, a cream consisting of the mixed acids was topically applied ...

The molecular and isotopic chemistry of organic residues from archaeological potsherds was used to obtain further insight into the dietary trends and economies at the Constance lake-shore Neolithic settlements. The archaeological organic residues from the Early Late Neolithic (3922-3902 BC) site Hornstaad-Hornle IA/Germany are, at present, the oldest archaeological samples analysed at the Insti...

It has been known since the work of Mayer (1) in 1875 that the thick succulent leaves of many plants of the family Crassulaceae become enriched in titratable organic acids during the night and diminish in acid content when the leaves are illuminated. An analogous diurnal variation in acidity has been observed in a number of other succulents, and occasionally in species of different growth habit...

The Haihe River Basin, which is one of the most water-scarce and polluted river basins in China, has abnormally high nitrogen levels. In this study, total hydrolyzable amino acids (THAAs) were measured in surface sediment and sediment core samples in the Haihe River Basin to determine if amino acids were potential sources of ammonium, organic nitrogen, and organic carbon. The rivers were found ...

Drcarboxylic aciduria is a condition sometimes encountered during routine urine screening for inborn errors of metabolism [l] and may be due to ketosrs, a transient condition m some neonates [2] or a number of enzyme deficiencies mainly involving fatty acid metabolism or transport. Unsaturated dicarboxylic acids have also been reported m some of these conditions. These compounds are usually det...