Microorganisms with the capability to desulfurize petroleum are in high demand with escalating restrictions currently placed on fuel purity. Thermophilic desulfurizers are particularly valuable in high-temperature industrial applications. We report the whole-genome sequences of Paenibacillus napthalenovorans 32O-Y and Paenibacillus sp. 32O-W, which can and cannot, respectively, metabolize diben...

Drought tolerance (survival at 98.2% relative humidity and 20 degress C) was investigated for adult individuals of the springtail Folsomia fimetaria after three weeks of exposure to different polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs). Seven PACs were investigated (acridine, dibenzofuran, carbazole, fluorene, dibenzothiophene, fluoranthene, and pyrene), with each substance used at several exposure co...

Dibenzothiophenes (DBTs) bearing alkyl substitutions adjacent to the sulfur atom, such as 4,6-diethyldibenzothiophene (4,6-DEDBT), are referred to as sterically hindered with regard to access to the sulfur moiety. By using enrichment cultures with 4,6-DEDBT as the sole sulfur source, bacterial isolates which selectively remove sulfur from sterically hindered DBTs were obtained. The isolates wer...

We report the synthesis, X-ray crystal structures and photophysics of new donor-acceptor oligomers of fluorene (F) and dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide (S) with constrained dihedral angles in the backbone. The materials display bright deep-blue fluorescence and evidence is presented for a planarised intramolecular charge-transfer (PICT) state in the F-S systems.

CASSCF and multireference MP2 calculations were carried out on thiophene-S-oxide (TO) and selenophene-Se-oxide (SeO), comparing the energies of the ground state to the first two electronically excited singlet and triplet states, using constrained optimizations and multiple fixed S-O or Se-O distances. For both molecules, one of the two triplet states smoothly dissociates to yield O((3)P) with l...

Rhodococcus sp. strain IGTS8 (ATCC 53968) is able to utilize dibenzothiophene (DBT) as a sole source of sulphur. The carbon skeleton of DBT is not metabolized and is conserved as 2-hydroxybiphenyl (HBP), which accumulates in the medium. This phenotype is due to the expression of the plasmid-encoded DBT-desulphurization (dsz) operon, which encodes three proteins, DszA, B and C. In this paper it ...

the combustion of sulfur-rich fossil fuels leads to the release of acid rain-causing sulfurdioxide into the environment. the aim of this study was to enhance the efficiency of biodesulfurizationusing pseudomonas aeruginosa through the duplication of the dsz cluster in this organism. one copy ofthe dsz cluster was inserted by a tri-parental mating method into the chromosome of pseudomonasaerugin...

Sonochemical preparation of Co and Ni promoted MoS(2) supported on alumina was achieved by high-intensity ultrasonic irradiation of isodurene solutions containing molybdenum carbonyl, dicobalt octacarbonyl, elemental sulfur, and Al(2)O(3) or Ni-Al(2)O(3) under Ar flow. The sonochemically prepared catalysts were characterized by elemental analysis, XPS, SEM, TEM, and XEDS, and hydrodesulfurizati...