The ESR-spin stabilization approach has been employed to detect and characterize o-semiquinone radicals from the oxidation of epinephrine and related materials (norepinephrine, 3,4-dihydroxynorephedrine, isoproterenol, and adrenalone) in aqueous solutions. Semiquinones were generated by various oxidative procedures--enzymatic oxidation (with horseradish peroxidase/H2O2), chemical oxidation (wit...

Graphene oxide (GO) can be considered as one of the most visible outcomes of graphene research in terms of large scale production and commercialization prospects. Although GO can be easily prepared by oxidation-exfoliation of graphite in agitated solutions, the size of these sheets is generally limited due to fragmentation along fault lines during chemical oxidation and exfoliation in agitated ...

Slowly biodegradable substances and recalcitrant pose a serious threat to the environment owing to their bio-resistant nature. With the increase in industrial activities, more and more quantity of these substances is being discharged through wastewater. The biodegradability potential of such substances can be anticipated from low BOD/COD ratio. Traditionally, the wastewater containing recalcitr...

Tandem "Z-scheme" approaches to solar-to-chemical production afford the ability to independently develop and optimize reductive photocatalysts for CO2 reduction to multicarbon compounds and oxidative photocatalysts for O2 evolution. To connect the two redox processes, molecular redox shuttles, reminiscent of biological electron transfer, offer an additional level of facile chemical tunability t...

An accepted mechanism for mitochondrial oxidation of fatty acids, i.e. ,8 oxidation, although inferred to apply also to long chain fatty acids (>C&), has actually been elucidated only for relatively short chain acids (<C’S); only the activation (acyl coenzyme A synthetase) and initial dehydrogenation (acyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase) steps have been demonstrated for palmitate (1). The present pap...