Background: Phthalates are a group of multifunctional chemicals. Diethyl phthalate (DEP) is one of the most frequently used phthalates in solvents and fixatives for numerous industrial products. Method: The present experiment was designed to assess oxidative stress, if any, caused by diethyl phthalate. For this the homogenates of liver and kidney were treated with different concentrations ( 1...

p-Nitrophenyl N-butyl, N-octyl, and N-dodecyl carbamates and a newly synthesized diethyl phosphate compound were studied as potential inhibitors of the cholesteryl ester hydrolases of Fu5AH rat hepatoma cells. Whole homogenates of Fu5AH cells were used as an enzyme source for the assay of cholesteryl ester hydrolase activity. All four compounds led to marked inhibition (70-80%) of neutral chole...

Environmental remediation requires ion-selective polymers that operate under a wide range of solution conditions. In one example, removal of trivalent and divalent metal ions from waste streams resulting from mining operations before they enter the environment requires treatment at acidic pH. The monoethyl ester phosphate ligands developed in this report operate from acidic solutions. They have...

The utility of allylsamarium bromide, both as a nucleophilic reagent and a single-electron transfer reagent, in the reaction of carbonyl compounds with allylsamarium bromide in the presence of diethyl phosphate is reported in this communication. From a synthetic point of view, a simple one-pot method for the preparation of terminal olefins is developed.

Dialkyl phosphates (DAP) are common degradation products of organophosphorus pesticides that are used as urinary biomarkers for human exposure. An HPTLC method was developed for the quantitative determination of DAP in fruit juices, i.e., dimethyl phosphate (DMP), dimethyl thiophosphate (DMTP), diethyl phosphate (DEP), and diethyl thiophosphate (DETP). Dibutyl phosphate (DBP) was used as an int...

The bacterial phosphotriesterase (PTE) from Pseudomonas diminuta catalyzes the hydrolysis of organophosphate esters at rates close to the diffusion limit. X-ray diffraction studies have shown that a binuclear metal center is positioned in the active site of PTE and that this complex is responsible for the activation of the nucleophilic water from solvent. In this paper, the three-dimensional st...

Using 10-(2,5-dihydroxyphenyl)-10-hydrogen-9-oxo-10-phosphine-10-oxide (DOPO-H Q), N,N-diethyl-bis(hydroxyethyl) aminomethylene phosphate diethyl (FRC-6), and (6-oxo- 6H-dibenzo[c,e][1,2]oxphosphine-6-yl) hydroxylmethyl-thiophene (DOPO-SF) as reactive flame retardants, the flame-retardant polyurethane pressure sensitive adhesive (FRPU-PSA) were prepared. The fourier transform infrared (FTIR), t...