Large-scale composting facilities are known to cause environmental problems, mainly through pungent air emitted by composting material. In air samples taken above stacks set up to prepare compost used as a substrate in mushroom cultivation, several volatile compounds were identified by means of the coupled techniques of gas chromatography and mass spectrography. Among the compounds identified, ...

Metals such as CuI and FeII generate hydroxyl radical (.OH) by reducing endogenous hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Because antioxidants can ameliorate metal-mediated oxidative damage, we have quantified the ability of glutathione, a primary intracellular antioxidant, and other biological sulfur-containing compounds to inhibit metal-mediated DNA damage caused hydroxyl radical. In the CuI/H2O2 system, ...

Dibenzothiophene (DBT), benzothiophene (BT) and thiophene (T) were catalytically oxidized to their corresponding sulfone products by H2O2 in the presence of magnetically recoverable polyoxometalate-based nano catalyst. Different extracting solvents including ethanol, acetonitrile, and dimethylformamide were tested. The best results were obtained by ethanol extraction. The oxidative desulfurizat...

Millions of tons of vacuum residues are produced in refineries every year and could be a potentially valuable resource for generating electricity and has possible application as heating and marine fuel. In this work, the polycyclic aromatic sulfur compounds (PASHs) from the aromatic fraction of vacuum residue before and after partial hydrodesulfurization (HDS) were derivatized by methylation to...

In this article, a series of effective catalysts based on betaine and sulfuric or phosphomolybdic acids was obtained. These compositions were characterized by various physicochemical methods tested in the oxidation sulfur- nitrogenous-containing compounds H2O2. An increase amount heteropolyacid (HPA) leads to non-linear change acidity, degree removal sulfur-containing correlates with concentrat...

Earlier works on oxidation of sulf ides, thiols, and disulf ides with both chemical and enzymic systems are reviewed. Enzymic oxidations of thiols and disulfides are compared with their chemical oxidations with N2O and H2O2 by the use of unsymmetrical disulf ides, thiolsulfinates and O18_ tracer technique. In both enzymic oxidation and that with N2O, oxidation of disulfides to thiolsulfinates i...