Water-soluble carbon nanoparticles were prepared by refluxing natural gas soot in concentrated nitric acid. The surface of the resulting nanoparticles was found to be decorated with a variety of oxygenated species, as suggested by spectroscopic measurements. Back potentiometric titration of the nanoparticles was employed to quantify the coverage of carboxylic, lactonic, and phenolic moieties on...

The title compounds, C15H19N4O+·Cl- and C15H19N4O+·Cl-·H2O, obtained in attempts to synthesize metal complexes using tetra-hydro-indazole as a ligand, were characterized by NMR, IR and X-ray diffraction techniques. The partially saturated ring in the tetra-hydro-indazole core adopts a sofa conformation. An intra-molecular N-H⋯N hydrogen bond formed by the protonated amino group and the N atom o...

Thiacalix[4]arene receptors with two thiourea moieties and 2-pyridyl exhibited a heteroditopic dinuclear receptor F ? Ag + ions by positive allosteric effect.

The incorporation of fluorinated moieties into a polymer can confer unique properties and often lead in solution to original morphologies endowed with rare properties.

In tissue engineering (TE), artificial biomaterials have emerged over the past decade as an alternative to autotransplants. The main characteristics of these materials include good biocompatibility well biodegradability. Up now, most used in TE are based on polyesters, which limited their scope application, especially scaffolds, due undesirably slow degradation behavior under acidic conditions ...

The interaction of the SARS CoV2 spike glycoprotein with two sialic acid-containing trisaccharides (α2,3 and α2,6 sialyl N-acetyllactosamine) has been demonstrated by NMR. NMR-based distinction between signals those acids in glycans covalently attached to protein belonging exogenous α2,3 N-acetyllactosamine ligands achieved synthesizing uniformly 13C-labelled at acid galactose moieties. STD-1H,...

OBJECTIVES Low-molecular-weight (LMW) substances are known to be causative agents of occupational asthma (OA) and occupational rhinitis (OR). Although most LMW substances are irritants or allergens, some can cause immediate type immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated allergic reactions. Trimellitic anhydride (TMA) is one such LMW substance, which is known as an immunological sensitizer. However, the e...