In order to measure serum copper concentration, 163 adult males working at different units of copper plant from a total population of 671, were selected by simple random sampling. Eighty three subjects working at melting foundry, 49 in extrugen- rolling and 31 at administrative service untils. Eighty four adult male natives of Kerman and it's suburbs were randomly choosen as control group, seru...

A novel energy-saving hydrometallurgical recovery process for copper from electronic scrap employing the Cu(I)-ammine complex has been presented on the basis of a thermodynamic consideration. In order to experimentally explore the feasibility of the leaching stage in this process, the copper leaching behavior from a printed circuit board (PCB) in ammoniacal alkaline solutions has been investiga...

Global warming concern has dramatically increased interest in using CO2 as a feedstock for preparation of value-added compounds, thereby helping to reduce its atmospheric concentration. Here, we describe a dinuclear copper(I) complex that is oxidized in air by CO2 rather than O2; the product is a tetranuclear copper(II) complex containing two bridging CO2-derived oxalate groups. Treatment of th...

The melanin operon (melC) of Streptomyces antibioticus is composed of two genes that encode MelC1 and MelC2 proteins. MelC1 has been suggested as a trans-activator which can facilitate the incorporation of copper into the apotyrosinase (MelC2) (Lee, Y.-H. W., Chen, B.-F., Wu, S.-Y., Leu, W.-M., Lin, J.-J., Chen, C. W., and Lo, S. J. (1988) Gene (Amst.) 65, 71-81). However, the molecular mechani...

A novel, mixed-valent copper(I)-copper(II) complex, {[bis(ethylene-diamine)copper(II)] bis[diiodocuprate(I)]} (1), has been prepared by electrochemical dissolution of a sacrificial copper anode in a solution of ethylenediamine (en), I2 and tetraethylammoniumperchlorate (TEAP) as supporting electrolyte in acetonitrile (AcN)and characterized by single-crystal X-ray structure determination. The cr...

2-Benzylaminopyridine (HBAP) reacts with NaH in THF and generates the sodium salt (NaBAP). Further reaction of [Cu(TMEDA) ] [CuCl ] with one equivalent of this ligand in THF leads to the formation of a dimeric Cu(1) complex, [Cu (BAP)] . H 0. The molecular structure has been determined by using a single-crystal X-ray diffraction method. The yellow compound crystallizes in the monoclinic s...

The polymer-copper(II) complex samples, [Cu(phen)(l-Val) BPEI]Cl·H(2)O, with varying degrees of coordination in the polymer chain, were prepared and characterized by elemental analysis and spectroscopic methods. The binding of these complex samples with both DNA and RNA has been investigated. The experimental results indicate that the polyethyleneimine-copper(II) complex samples bind with DNA a...

Copper complexes of [Cu(phen)(tda)].2H2O(1) and [(phen)2Cu(µ-tda) Cu(phen)](ClO4)2.1.5H2O (2) (where phen is 1,10-phenanthroline and tda2- is thiodiacetate) have been synthesized. Both complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, IR, UV–Vis spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. Their solid state struct...