The thermal decomposition of 2-butanol have been studied at temperatures of 1045-1221 K and pressures of 1.5-6 bar using the single pulse shock tube technique. Dilute concentrations of 2-butanol have been decomposed in the presence of large quantities of a radical inhibitor. The mechanism for decomposition involves direct elimination of water producing cis- and trans-2-butene, and 1-butene, and...

Photofragment translational spectroscopy was used to study the photodissociation of the methyl perthiyl radical CH(3)SS at 248 nm. The radical was produced by flash pyrolysis of dimethyl disulfide (CH(3)SSCH(3)). Two channels were observed: CH(3) + S(2) and CH(2)S + SH. Photofragment translational energy distributions indicate that CH(3) + S(2) results from C-S bond fission on the ground state ...

Measurements of pulmonary excretion of methane (CH(4)) were used to obtain information on the CH(4)-producing bacteria in man. Preliminary studies indicated that (a) all CH(4) excreted by man is produced by colonic bacteria, (b) there is no appreciable utilization of CH(4) by man, and (c) breath CH(4) can serve as a relatively accurate indicator of CH(4) production in the intestine. The rate of...

By constructing Hopf costructures on closure spaces via homotopy, we give the concepts of cospace (CH-cospace) and cogroup (CH-cogroup). We then prove that retract deformation a CH-cospace are also CH-cospace. construct costructure set with help quotient operator. show space same homotopy type as CH-cogroup is itself CH-cogroup. existence covariant functor between category pointed ($\mathcal{CH...

Integrin-linked kinase (ILK) is a multidomain focal adhesion (FA) protein that functions as an important regulator of integrin-mediated processes. We report here the identification and characterization of a new calponin homology (CH) domain-containing ILK-binding protein (CH-ILKBP). CH-ILKBP is widely expressed and highly conserved among different organisms from nematodes to human. CH-ILKBP int...

A series of amphiphilic monochain derivatives of stearic acid, CH(3)(CH(2))(16)CONH(CH(2))(n)NH(2) (n = 2, 3, 4, 6), CH(3)(CH(2))(16)CONH(CH(2))(2)S(2)(CH(2))(2)NH(2), and [CH(3)(CH(2))(16)CONH](2)(CH(2))(2), are synthesized, and their self-assembly behaviors have been investigated in 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE). In addition to the concentration of the compound in DCE, the number of methylene unit...

Colonic bacteria liberate large quantities of the highly toxic gases hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) and methanethiol (CH(3)SH). The colonic mucosa presumably has an efficient means of detoxifying these compounds, which is thought to occur through methylation of H(2)S to CH(3)SH and CH(3)SH to dimethylsulfide (CH(3)SCH(3)). We investigated this detoxification pathway by incubating rat cecal mucosal ho...

The cationic complexes [Ni(eta(3)-CH(2)C(R)CH(2))(SbPh(3))(3)][BAr'(4)] (R = CH(3), H ; Ar' = 3,5-C(6)H(3)(CF(3))(2)), [Ni(eta(3)-CH(2)C(R)CH(2))(AsPh(3))(2)][BAr'(4)] (R = CH(3), H ), [Ni(eta(3)-CH(2)CHCH(2))(PPh(3))(L)][BAr'(4)] (L = SbPh(3), AsPh(3)), and the neutral derivatives [Ni(eta(3)-CH(2)C(R)CH(2))Br(L)] (L = SbPh(3), R = CH(3), H ; L = AsPh(3), R = CH(3), H ) have been prepared and c...