Thorium redox chemistry is extremely scarce due to the high stability of ThIV. Here we report two unique examples thorium arenide complexes prepared by reduction a ThIV-siloxide complex in presence naphthalene, mononuclear [K(OSi(OtBu)3)3Th(η6-C10H8)] (1) and inverse-sandwich [K(OSi(OtBu)3)3Th]2(μ-η6,η6-C10H8)] (2). The electrons stored these allow broad range substrates (N2O, AdN3, CO2, HBBN)....

Targeted α therapy holds tremendous potential as a cancer treatment: it offers the possibility of delivering a highly cytotoxic dose to targeted cells while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue. The metallic α-generating radioisotopes 225Ac and 227Th are promising radionuclides for therapeutic use, provided adequate chelation and targeting. Here we demonstrate a new chelating platfor...

Different types of excitawry amino acid receptors probably exe t tw specific fiaw~onal roles within the manunaban CNS. t..Glutamate may be the trammitter at all of these receptors, with extracellul+w Mg z + regulating the sensitivity of one particular receptorionophore system. As Jeff Watkins explains, this probable role of L-glutamme remains unproven. But progress is being made in characterizi...

One severe problem in frame-based description languages in that computing subsumytion in computationally intractable for languages of reasonable expressive power. Several partial solutions to this problem are used in knowledge representation systems that incorporate such languages, but none of these solutions are satisfactory if the system is to be of general use in representing knowledge. A ne...

background: in this study, ferrate (vi) and ultraviolet (uv) radiation were employed to remove hydrogen sulfide from municipal wastewater resulting in a reduction in chemical oxygen demand (cod). although ferrate (vi) and uv have been used individually for the removal of a few pollutants from urban and industrial wastewater, there exists no study to investigate the effectiveness of simultaneous...

A growing number of farmers’ cooperatives cultivate crops without chemical pesticides, but also organic certification. How does this intermediate form agriculture between conventional and production function? What are the outcomes on cropland biodiversity? model contribute to transition toward more sustainable forms agriculture? We address these research questions using original data collected ...

an efficient method was employed for the ash and pyrite sulphur removal from bitumen using column flotation process. the bitumen samples containing 9.6% sulphur (6.81% in the pyrite sulphur form) and 26.4% ash were successfully showed up to 75.20% of pyrite sulphur (e.g.; 51.66% of total sulphur) and 70.81% of ash removal. the box-behnken design (bbd) was employed to design the experiments, to ...