The large-scale isolation of specific isomers of amyl alcohols for applications in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and biochemical industries represents a challenging task due to the physicochemical similarities of these structural isomers. The homochiral metal-organic framework cadmium-BINOL (BINOL=1,1'-bi-2-naphthol) is suitable for the separation of pentanol isomers, combining adsorption selec...

The reaction of 2-naphthol and also para-substituted phenols with glyoxal in presence of choline chloride: 2 ZnCl2 [ChCl: 2ZnCl2], a deep eutectic solvent (DES), as a green catalyst was studied. The amount of catalyst, solvent type, temperature, and time on the yield of reaction were investigated. It was found that the optimal condition included 10% mol ratio of catalyst (mol percentage of DES ...

Solvolysis of trichloroacetate esters of 2-methoxy-1,2-dihydro-1-naphthols shows a remarkably large difference in rates between the cis and trans isomers, k(cis)/k(trans) = 1800 in aqueous acetonitrile. This mirrors the behaviour of the acid-catalysed dehydration of cis- and trans-naphthalene-1,2-dihydrodiols to form 2-naphthol, for which k(cis)/k(trans) = 440, but contrasts with that for solvo...

The binary adsolubilization behaviors of 2-naphthol +biphenyl and 2-naphthol +1, 3-dichlorobenzene in a cationic fluorocarbon surfactant adsorbed layer formed on TiO2 have been investigated as a function of pH. In the binary adsolubilization of 2-naphthol+biphenyl, the adsolubilized amount of 2-naphthol increases gradually until pH 7 and then sharply with a further increase of pH, whereas the a...

The geometries and energetics of the ground and lower-lying singlet excited states S0, La, and Lb of 1-naphthol (NpOH)-(NH3)n (n = 0-5) clusters have been computed using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) methods. Cluster size dependence of the excited state proton transfer (ESPT) reaction was investigated by the vertical transitions from the g...

Fluorescence probes based on excited state proton transfer (ESPT) have been recently developed for microheterogeneous media. The ESPT behaviour of a series of substituted naphthols (4-chl oro-1-naphthol, 5-amino-1-naphthol , 4-methoxy1-naphthol, 7-methoxy-2-naphthol , 3-amino-2-naphthol, 6-bromo-2naphthol and 1-bromo-2-naphthol) is investigated in liposomes, using steady state and time resolved...

Hyaluronan is a biopolymer suitable as a targeting unit in drug delivery systems according to affinity of hyaluronan to CD-44 receptor of cancer cells. We suppose that hyaluronan, when interacts with cationic surfactant, influences hydration of Stern layer of CTAB which affects fluorescence properties of 1-naphthol. We study excited state proton transfer of 1-naphthol in aqueous solution and in...

The mechanism(s) of toxicity of 1-naphthol and two of its possible metabolites, 1,2- and 1,4-naphthoquinone, to freshly isolated rat hepatocytes has been studied. 1-Naphthol and both naphthoquinones exhibited a dose-dependent toxicity to hepatocytes. [1-14C]-1-Naphthol was metabolised by hepatocytes predominantly to its glucuronic acid and sulphate ester conjugates, but small amounts of covalen...

The effect of some unsubstituted aromatic amines and their oand p-hydroxylated derivatives on isolated rat-liver mito chondria has been studied. The o-hydroxylated amines inhibited oxygen uptake in the presence of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-dependent respiratory substrates. Of the other compounds only l-amino-4-naphthol inhibited oxygen uptake. The Buccinate oxidase system was inhibited ...

Pseudomonas sp. strain C4 metabolizes carbaryl (1-naphthyl-N-methylcarbamate) as the sole source of carbon and energy via 1-naphthol, 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene, and gentisate. 1-Naphthol-2-hydroxylase (1-NH) was purified 9.1-fold to homogeneity from Pseudomonas sp. strain C4. Gel filtration and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the enzyme is a homodimer with a...