A simple, rapid and sensitive spectrophotometric method is herewith proposed for the determination of copper(II) by using diamine-dioxime ligand, meso-3,6,6,9-tetramethyl-4,8-diazaundecane-2,10-dione dioxime or meso-HexaMethyl Propylene Amine Oxime (meso-HMPAO). This method is based on the formation of a stable 1 : 1 red-pink complex between copper(II) and meso-HMPAO in aqueous solution. Absorp...

Cultures of the basidiomycete Mycena avenacea TA 8480 were shown to metabolize pentachlorophenol (PCP), 2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-p-hydroquinone (TeCHQ), and 2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone (TeCBQ). The first metabolite of the PCP degradation pathway was identified as TeCBQ which in a second reaction is reduced to the hydroquinone TeCHQ. Subsequently dechlorination of TeCHQ yielded 3,5,6-trichloro...

A [Cu(II)16] wheel was isolated serendipitously from the reaction of acetylacetone dioxime with copper(ii) chloride and lanthanide ions in a reaction initially designed to produce heterometallic 3d-4f cages. The ligand has been transformed in situ to three different forms, all found within the [Cu16] wheel, with the original ligand completely absent.

A new imidazole-2-thione fused furazan biheterocyclic group was synthesized and its biological activity investigated. Nitrogen rich heterocycles, 1,2,5-oxadiazole (furazan) have been conveni ently fused. To accomplish this, we improved a strategy that silica gel supported solvent free micro wave dehydration of vicinal dioximes. The target "N,N’-diphenyl-4H-imidazo[4,5-c]furazan-5(6H) –thio ne" ...

The mol-ecule of the title compound, C(14)H(12)N(2)O(4), lies across a crystallographic inversion centre situated at the mid-point of the C-C intra-annular bond. The mol-ecule is not planar, the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings being 50.1 (1)°. The oxime group is in an E position with respect to the -OH group and forms an intra-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bond. In the crystal structure, i...