Metal ions can exist in several forms. Ion-exchange plays an important role in modern analytical chemistry. Transition metals can be separated using either anion or cation exchange chromatography, depending on the choice of complexing agent used in the eluent. Iron deficiency is the most common of nutritional anemia in human beings. It is also an essential component of myoglobin, cytochomes, ca...

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) is a known complexing agent that interacts with a host of cations. In this paper, various techniques are used to elucidate the mechanism of interaction between EDTA and barium sulfate surfaces. It is shown that complexation with metal ions is not sufficient to explain the inhibition of barite crystallization but that other processes such as chemisorption m...

We show that cell lines derived from childhood alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) are very sensitive to the growth-inhibitory effects of the immunosuppressive agent rapamycin (RAP), compared to other human cell lines (50% inhibitory concentration range of 0.1-8 ng/ml, compared to 1280 to > 10,000 ng/ml). Our data suggest that the sensitivity of RMS lines is due to RAP inhibition of insulin-like gr...

Stability of hydrogen peroxide in time was investigated in the presence of various metal ions and a complexing agent ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). Metal ions: Fe(III), Mn(II), Co(II), Cu(II), Ni(II), Zn(II) and Pb(II) were applied at different concentrations with a chelator in a concentration of 1 ·10 mol/dm, and the solutions were kept at 4C between the measurements. Obtained data in...

In this paper we used a surfactant-stabilized lyotropic lamellar model system to study the interfacial behavior of an ion-extracting agent: N(1),N(3) dimethyl-N(1),N(3)-dibutyl-2-tetradecylmalonamide (DMDBTDMA). An analysis of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and polarized attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) data enabled us to describe the distribution of the m...

Ternary and quaternary metal chelates of some biologically important bivalent transition metal ions viz. Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) formed with biologically significant ligands, viz. Asparagine (A) and Uracil (B) have been investigated. The relevant stability constants and complexation equilibria of quaternary metal chelates in solution at 30±1 oC and at constant ionic strength (I=0.1M N...

The influence of polyethyleneimine (PEI) on the electrochemical behavior of cyanide-free electrolytes with 5,5-dimethylhydantoin (DMH) as a complexing agent was investigated using cyclic voltammetry (CV), chronoamperometry, and cathodic polarization measurements. The gold electrodeposition displayed three-dimensional (3-D) progressive nucleation in both the absence and presence of PEI according...

The biosorption of chromium (VI) on eighteen different natural biosorbents: Natural sediment, chitosan, chitin, Aspergillus flavus I-V, Aspergillus fumigatus I-ll, Helmintosporium sp, Cladosporium sp, Mucor rouxii mutant, M. rouxii IM-80, Mucor sp-I and 2, Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans was studied in this work. It was found that the biomass of C. neoformans, natural sediment, Hel...

Streptokinase is a potent fibrinolytic agent which is widely used in treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE) and acute myocardial infarction (MI). Major limitation of this enzyme is its short biological half-life in the blood stream. Our previous report showed that complexing streptokinase with chitosan could be a solution to overcome this limitation. The aim of this re...

The aim of this work is to investigate the enhancement UVC-based tertiary treatments; for purpose, real wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent was spiked with a model pollutant, namely acetaminophen. UVC irradiation resulted in some photodegradation acetaminophen, which enhanced upon addition hydrogen peroxide (11 mM), but higher amounts oxidizing agent no significant acceleration process. ...