3,4-Dihydro-3-methyl-6-nitro-2H-1,3-benzoxazin-2-one ('DMNB') reacts with cytoplasmic aldehyde dehydrogenase in a similar way to that previously observed with the structurally related p-nitrophenyl dimethylcarbamate, but provides a covalently linked p-nitrophenol-containing reporter group at the enzyme's active site. The pKa of the enzyme-linked reporter group is much higher than that of free p...

One of the central topics in environmental bioremediation research is to identify microorganisms that are capable of degrading the contaminants of interest. Here we report application of combined microautoradiography (MAR) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). The method has previously been used in a number of systems; however, here we demonstrate its feasibility in studying the degrad...

The thermal desorption process of phenol, m-aminophenol, p-cresol and p-nitrophenol from an activated carbon has been studied. For this purpose, the activated carbon-phenolic compound system was heated to 1100 K in a He flow following determination of weight loss and the evolution of light gases by a thermobalance and by mass spectrometry, respectively. Results showed that during the heat treat...

The sorption kinetics and thermodynamics of 1,3-dinitrobenzene (DNB), m-nitrotoluene (mNT), p-nitrophenol (pNP), and nitrobenzene (NB) on as-grown and nitric acid-oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were investigated. The sorption kinetics was well described by a pseudo-second-order rate model, while both Langmuir and Freundlich models described the sorption isotherms well and the so...

Rigid dendrimers with flexible ferrocenyltriazolyl termini serve as excellent supports for remarkably efficient and recyclable Pd Au nanocatalysts biphasic reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol at 20 °C.