In situ EDE and scanning EXAFS studies of homogeneous aikene oligomerisation catalysts are reported. EDE spectra were acquired either on Station 9.3 at the SRS Daresbury Laboratory using a bent Si(220) crystal monochromator (Ni and Br K-edges) or on ID24 at the ESRF using a Si(ll1) monochromator in a Bragg geometry (Ni K-edge). The catalysts studied were derived fiom mixtures of Ni(acach (acac ...

We have applied a color-developing reagent, p-nitrobenzene diazonium fluoroborate (diazo reagent) as a post-column derivatization tool for the specific determination of acetoacetate (AcAc) in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). A mobile phase consisting of 50 mM KH(2)PO(4), 4 mM tetra-n-butylammonium phosphate (TBAP) as an ion-pair reagent and 2 v/v% methanol, pH 3.5, diazo reagent s...

Star-burst tetranuclear Ru(iii) complexes, Delta-(or Lambda-)[{Delta-(or Lambda-)-Ru(iii)(acac)(2)(taet)}(3)Ru(iii)] (acac = acetylacetonato; taet = tetraacetylethanato), were prepared and resolved into eight enantiomers on a column packed with an ion-exchange adduct of a clay and Delta-[Ru(ii)(phen)(3)](2+) (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline), demonstrating that the dual chiralities of the central an...

We report a facile synthesis of hard magnetic L10-FePtAu nanoparticles by coreduction of Fe(acac)3, Pt(acac)2 (acac = acetylacetonate) and gold acetate in oleylamine. In the current reaction condition, NP sizes are controlled to be 5.5 to 11.0 nm by changing the amount of Au doping. When the Au composition in the NPs is higher than 14%, the hard magnetic NPs are directly obtained without any an...

We demonstrated a novel white electrophosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PHOLEDs), which structure was ITO/NPB (35 nm)/MCP (5 nm)/Firpic: MCP 10 wt% (15 nm)/ Ir (MDQ)2(acac): TPBI X wt% (2 nm)/Firpic:TPBI 10 wt% (10 nm)/TPBI (40 nm)/LiF (1 nm)/Al (100 nm). The luminescent properties were studied by inserting different doping concentration of the red emitting layer (Ir(MDQ)2(acac):TPBI...

Azido Coordination, Imidazole Adducts, Structural Interconversion A number of mixed-ligand complexes of cobalt(III) containing coordinated azide ion, acetylacetonate anion and the neutral base imidazole and, having the general formula [Co(acac)2(N3)(Im)] (Im = imidazole or its derivatives) have been synthesised by the reaction of K[rrans-Co(acac)2(N3)2] with the biologically active ligand imida...

Dysoxia can be defined as ATP flux decreasing in proportion to O2 availability with preserved ATP demand. Hepatic venous beta-hydroxybutyrate-to-acetoacetate ratio (beta-OHB/AcAc) estimates liver mitochondrial NADH/NAD and may detect the onset of dysoxia. During partial dysoxia (as opposed to anoxia), however, flow may be adequate in some liver regions, diluting effluent from dysoxic regions, t...

Using a non-recirculating perfusion system, we studied the time course of ketone body output from the isolated rat liver in response to various hormones and changes in pH and redox state. The release of 3-hydroxybutyrate (3-OHB) started to be suppressed within 1 min after the addition of insulin (50 mU/ml) and kept half of the basal level even 10 min after its cessation. The addition of glucago...

As part of our interest into the bioinorganic chemistry of gallium, gallium(III) complexes of the peptide ligand N-(2-(4-imidazolyl)ethyl)pyridine-2-carboxamide (pypepH2) resembling a fragment of the metal-binding domain of bleomycins (BLMs), have been isolated. Reaction of pypepH2 with (Et4N)[GaCl4] and Ga(acac)3 [acac- is the acetylacetonate(-1) ion] affords the mononuclear complex [Ga(pypepH...