In the crystal structure of the title compound, 5-fluoro-cytosinium picrate, C4H5FN3O+·C6H2N3O7-, one N heteroatom of the 5-fluoro-cytosine (5FC) ring is protonated. The 5FC ring forms a dihedral angle of 19.97 (11)° with the ring of the picrate (PA-) anion. In the crystal, the 5FC+ cation inter-acts with the PA- anion through three-centre N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming two conjoined rings havin...

A patient who ingested a methanol/nitromethane mixture (model airplane fuel) showed an apparent plasma creatinine concentration of 8.0 mmol/L by the Jaffé reaction when the actual creatinine concentration, as measured by a specific enzymatic method, was 0.09 mmol/L. This effect was due to nitromethane in the plasma. Interference by nitromethane with the determination of creatinine by reaction w...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound N,N-dimethyl-2-[(2-methyl-phen-yl)phenyl-meth-oxy]ethanaminium picrate picric acid, C(18)H(24)NO(+)·C(6)H(2)N(3)O(7) (-)·C(6)H(3)N(3)O(7), contains one orphenadrinium cation, one picrate anion and one picric acid mol-ecule. In the orphenadrine cation, the two aromatic rings form a dihedral angle of 70.30 (7)°. There is an intra-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen ...

Some cepha antibiotics interfere positively in the Jaffé method for determining creatinine. The extent of this interference differs with the modification used, and its mechanism is unknown. We studied the spectrophotometric and thermodynamic properties of the reaction of picrate with creatinine and two cepha antibiotics, cefoxitin and cephalothin. The absorbance spectra of the chromophore produ...