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HDXsite is an online websever which includes some applications such as HDX modeller increasing the resolution of experimental HDX data and modeling protection factors for individual residues. | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
pRb is able to be localize to sites of DNA breaks during the repair process and assist in non-homologous end joining and homologous recombination through complexing with E2F1. Once at the breaks, pRb is able to recruit regulators of chromatin structure such as the DNA helicase transcription activator BRG1. pRb has been... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Gadolinium is given to patients for magnetic resonance imaging, or an MRI.It is used as a contrast agent for the exam to improve clarity of the images formed. However, it can react in the human body and have detrimental effects. Therefore, the agent should be removed. One of these gadolinium based agents is gadodiamide... | 3 | Analytical Chemistry |
Epigenetic modifications of histone tails in specific regions of the brain are of central importance in addictions, and much of the work on addiction has focused on histone acetylation. Once particular epigenetic alterations occur, they appear to be long lasting "molecular scars" that may account for the persistence o... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
Common bioactive materials available commercially for clinical use include 45S5 bioactive glass, A/W bioactive glass ceramic, dense synthetic HA, and bioactive composites such as a polyethylene–HA mixture. All these materials form an interfacial bond with adjacent tissue.
High-purity alumina bioceramics are currently c... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Rasagiline was tested for efficacy in people with multiple system atrophy in a large randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind disease-modification trial; the drug failed.
Teva conducted clinical trials attempting to prove that rasagiline did not just treat symptoms, but was a disease-modifying drug - that it actual... | 4 | Stereochemistry |
Consider a semi-ideal heat engine, in which heat transfer takes time, according to Fourier's law of heat conduction: , but other operations happen instantly.
Its maximal efficiency is the standard Carnot result, but it requires heat transfer to be reversible (quasistatic), thus taking infinite time. At maximum power ou... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Murexide is used in analytical chemistry as a complexometric indicator for complexometric titrations, most often of calcium ions, but also for copper, nickel, cobalt, thorium and rare-earth metals. It functions as a tridentate ligand.
Its use has been eclipsed by calcium-ion selective electrodes. | 3 | Analytical Chemistry |
The erosive effect of electrical discharges was first noted in 1770 by English physicist Joseph Priestley. | 8 | Metallurgy |
The initial step in this method involves the formation of a silyl ether at the C-2 hydroxy group of the glycosyl donor upon addition of dimethyldichlorosilane in the presence of a strong base such as butyllithium (BuLi); then the glycosyl acceptor is added to form a mixed silaketal. Activation of the anomeric leaving g... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
The exact timing at which life emerged on Earth is unknown. Minimum age estimates are based on evidence from the geologic rock record. The earliest physical evidence of life so far found consists of microbialites in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt of Northern Quebec, in banded iron formation rocks at least 3.77 and po... | 9 | Geochemistry |
Promiscuity is not only a primordial trait, but also a very widespread property in modern genomes. A series of experiments have been conducted to assess the distribution of promiscuous enzyme activities in E. coli. In E. coli 21 out of 104 single-gene knockouts tested (from the Keio collection) could be rescued by ove... | 1 | Biochemistry |
* CHCHDCH and CHCHCHD are a pair of structural isotopomers of propane.
* (R)- and (S)-CHCHDOH are isotopic stereoisomers of ethanol.
* (Z)- and (E)-CHCH=CHD are examples of isotopic stereoisomers of propene. | 4 | Stereochemistry |
He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and sent to an English boarding school at the age of 7. After completing his secondary education he returned to Israel to carry out his military service before moving back to England to study the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. in Physics fro... | 6 | Supramolecular Chemistry |
Dissolved load is the portion of a streams total sediment load that is carried in solution, especially ions from chemical weathering. It is a major contributor to the total amount of material removed from a rivers drainage basin, along with suspended load and bed load. The amount of material carried as dissolved load i... | 9 | Geochemistry |
The CARS process can be physically explained by using either a classical oscillator model or by using a quantum mechanical model that incorporates the energy levels of the molecule. Classically, the Raman active vibrator is modeled as a (damped) harmonic oscillator with a characteristic frequency of ω. In CARS, this os... | 3 | Analytical Chemistry |
A significant second-order effect on the Perturbation Molecular Orbital model of homoaromaticity is the addition of a second homoconjugate linkage and its influence on stability. The effect is often a doubling of the instability brought about by the addition of a single homoconjugate linkage, although there is an addit... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Nucleobases, such as guanine and adenine, can be synthesized from simple carbon and nitrogen sources, such as hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and ammonia. Formamide produces all four ribonucleotides when warmed with terrestrial minerals. Formamide is ubiquitous in the Universe, produced by the reaction of water and HCN. It can ... | 9 | Geochemistry |
As all other fluorescent proteins, Kaede can be the regional optical markers for gene expression and protein labeling for the study of cell behaviors.
One of the most useful applications is the visualization of neurons. Delineation of an individual neuron is difficult due to the long and thin processes which entangle w... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Draper wrote a number of books and articles for magazines and journals ([https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&pli=1&user=YcnAATAAAAAJ Google Scholar]). His books include:
* [https://archive.org/details/elementschemist02drapgoog Elements of Chemistry, Including the Most Recent Discoveries and Applications of the ... | 5 | Photochemistry |
Although rare, flutamide has been associated with severe hepatotoxicity and death. By 1996, 46 cases of severe cholestatic hepatitis had been reported, with 20 fatalities. There have been continued case reports since, including liver transplants and death. A 2021 review of the literature found 15 cases of serious hepat... | 4 | Stereochemistry |
Protons can also interact with the nucleus of the atoms in the sample through elastic collisions, Rutherford backscattering, often repelling the proton at angles close to 180 degrees. The backscatter give information on the sample thickness and composition. The bulk sample properties allow for the correction of X-ray p... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Born in Keresley on the outskirts of Coventry, Warwickshire, England, on 10 September 1936, Hartshorn was the son of Bernard Hartshorn and Christine Evelyn Hartshorn (née Bennett). He studied at Imperial College London, from where he graduated BSc and ARCS, and at University College, Oxford, where he obtained a DPhil i... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
Zn is an essential biological nutrient in the oceans, and its concentration is largely controlled by uptake by phytoplankton and remineralization. In addition to its critical role in many metalloenzymes (see Zinc Biology section), Zn is an important component of the carbonate shells of foraminifera and siliceous frustu... | 9 | Geochemistry |
Light-activated resins have found a place in floor refinishing applications, offering an instant return to service not available with any other chemical due to the need to cure at ambient temperatures. Because of application constraints, these coatings are exclusively UV cured with portable equipment containing high in... | 5 | Photochemistry |
Non-metallic inclusions are chemical compounds and nonmetals that are present in steel and other alloys. They are the product of chemical reactions, physical effects, and contamination that occurs during the melting and pouring process. These inclusions are categorized by origin as either endogenous or exogenous. Endog... | 8 | Metallurgy |
In molecular biology, an amplicon is a piece of DNA or RNA that is the source and/or product of amplification or replication events. It can be formed artificially, using various methods including polymerase chain reactions (PCR) or ligase chain reactions (LCR), or naturally through gene duplication. In this context, am... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Some molecular compounds that adopt square pyramidal geometry are XeOF, and various halogen pentafluorides (XF, where X = Cl, Br, I). Complexes of vanadium(IV), such as vanadyl acetylacetonate, [VO(acac)], are square pyramidal (acac = acetylacetonate, the deprotonated anion of acetylacetone (2,4-pentanedione)). | 4 | Stereochemistry |
*[http://www.amkor.com/index.cfm?objectid=C55AF2CE-D1A3-1153-5E9522117EE0826C "Flip Chip Bump Electromigration Reliability A comparison of Cu Pillar, High Pb, SnAg and SnPb Bump Structures", White Paper] | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Panel edge staining is a naturally occurring problem that occurs to anodized aluminium and stainless steel panelling and façades. It is semi-permanent staining that dulls the panel or façade's surface (in particular the edges of the panelling), reducing the natural lustre and shine produced by the anodizing processes ... | 8 | Metallurgy |
Generally speaking for highly expressed genes, translation elongation rates are faster along transcripts with higher codon adaptation to tRNA pools, and slower along transcripts with rare codons. This correlation between codon translation rates and cognate tRNA concentrations provides additional modulation of translati... | 1 | Biochemistry |
At physiological pHs, hydrogen fluoride is usually fully ionised to fluoride. In biochemistry, fluoride and hydrogen fluoride are equivalent. Fluorine, in the form of fluoride, is considered to be a micronutrient for human health, necessary to prevent dental cavities, and to promote healthy bone growth. The tea plant (... | 1 | Biochemistry |
A point mutation is a genetic mutation where a single nucleotide base is changed, inserted or deleted from a DNA or RNA sequence of an organism's genome. Point mutations have a variety of effects on the downstream protein product—consequences that are moderately predictable based upon the specifics of the mutation. The... | 1 | Biochemistry |
An action spectrum is a graph of the rate of biological effectiveness plotted against wavelength of light. It is related to absorption spectrum in many systems. Mathematically, it describes the inverse quantity of light required to evoke a constant response. It is very rare for an action spectrum to describe the level... | 5 | Photochemistry |
There are several software tools available for RNA velocity analysis.Each of these tools has its own strengths and applications, so the choice of tool would depend on the specific requirements of your analysis: | 1 | Biochemistry |
Sumerians from 4500 years ago have said to use insecticides in the form of sulfur compounds. Additionally, the Chinese from about 3200 years ago used mercury and arsenic compounds to control the body lice.
Agrochemicals were introduced to protect crops from pests and enhance crop yields. The most common agrochemicals i... | 2 | Environmental Chemistry |
Lithium amides like the diisopropylamide (LDA) and the (tetramethylpiperidide (LiTMP)) generally work well for the deprotonation of all types of salts, providing that not too much LiOH is present in the n-butyllithium used to make the lithium amide. Titration of lithium amide can be used to determine the amount of hydr... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
Although the epoxidation of ethylene is routinely achieved in the industry with selectivities as high as 90% on Ag catalysts, most catalysts provided efficiency, and 433 K (160 °C). The active species in these catalysts were identified to be hemispherical gold nano-crystals of less than 2 nm in diameter in intimate c... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Chloroplasts develop from proplastids when seedlings emerge from the ground. Thylakoid formation requires light. In the plant embryo and in the absence of light, proplastids develop into etioplasts that contain semicrystalline membrane structures called prolamellar bodies. When exposed to light, these prolamellar bodie... | 5 | Photochemistry |
The most commonly applied methods are MS and HPLC, in which the glycan part is cleaved either enzymatically or chemically from the target and subjected to analysis. In case of glycolipids, they can be analyzed directly without separation of the lipid component.
N-glycans from glycoproteins are analyzed routinely by hig... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
Magnetic refrigeration, or adiabatic demagnetization, is a cooling technology based on the magnetocaloric effect, an intrinsic property of magnetic solids. The refrigerant is often a paramagnetic salt, such as cerium magnesium nitrate. The active magnetic dipoles in this case are those of the electron shells of the par... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Given that a virtually uncountable variety of octahedral complexes exist, it is not surprising that a wide variety of reactions have been described. These reactions can be classified as follows:
* Ligand substitution reactions (via a variety of mechanisms)
* Ligand addition reactions, including among many, protonation
... | 4 | Stereochemistry |
Sephadex is a cross-linked dextran gel used for gel filtration. It was launched by Pharmacia in 1959, after development work by Jerker Porath and Per Flodin. The name is derived from separation Pharmacia dextran. It is normally manufactured in a bead form and most commonly used for gel filtration columns. By varying th... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Radical elimination can be viewed as the reverse of radical addition. In radical elimination, an unstable radical compound breaks down into a spin-paired molecule and a new radical compound. Shown below is an example of a radical elimination reaction, where a benzoyloxy radical breaks down into a phenyl radical and a c... | 2 | Environmental Chemistry |
Since glyceroneogenesis is related to lipid regulation, it can be found in adipose tissue and the liver. In adipose tissue, glyceroneogenesis restrains the release of free fatty acids (FFA) by re-esterifying them. In the liver, triglycerides are synthesized for lipid distribution. | 1 | Biochemistry |
Demasking is the process of clearing the part of etchant and maskant. Etchant is generally removed with a wash of clear, cold water. A de-oxidizing bath may also be required in the common case that the etching process left a film of oxide on the surface of the material. Various methods may be used to remove the maskant... | 8 | Metallurgy |
A drinking bird consists of two glass bulbs joined by a glass tube (the bird's neck/body). The tube extends nearly all the way into the bottom bulb, and attaches to the top bulb but does not extend into it.
The space inside the bird contains a fluid, usually colored for visibility. (This dye might fade when exposed to ... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Any sort of saturated molecule can be the starting point for generating isolobal fragments. The molecule's bonding and nonbonding molecular orbitals (MOs) should be filled and the antibonding MOs empty. With each consecutive generation of an isolobal fragment, electrons are removed from the bonding orbitals and a front... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
The most common phosphonium compounds have four organic substituents attached to phosphorus. The quaternary phosphonium cations include tetraphenylphosphonium, (CH)P and tetramethylphosphonium .
Quaternary phosphonium cations () are produced by alkylation of organophosphines. For example, the reaction of triphenylphosp... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
In microbiology, methyl red is used in the methyl red test (MR test), used to identify bacteria producing stable acids by mechanisms of mixed acid fermentation of glucose (cf. Voges–Proskauer test).
The MR test, the "M" portion of the four IMViC tests, is used to identify enteric bacteria based on their pattern of gluc... | 3 | Analytical Chemistry |
There are various uses of DNA molecular modeling in Genomics and Biotechnology research applications, from DNA repair to PCR and DNA nanostructures. Two-dimensional DNA junction arrays have been visualized by Atomic force microscopy.
DNA molecular modeling has various uses in genomics and biotechnology, with research ... | 4 | Stereochemistry |
By placing the hybrid proteins under the control of IPTG-inducible lac promoters, they are expressed only on media supplemented with IPTG. Further, by including different antibiotic resistance genes in each genetic construct, the growth of non-transformed cells is easily prevented through culture on media containing th... | 1 | Biochemistry |
The disulfide bonds are strong, with a typical bond dissociation energy of 60 kcal/mol (251 kJ mol). However, being about 40% weaker than and bonds, the disulfide bond is often the "weak link" in many molecules. Furthermore, reflecting the polarizability of divalent sulfur, the bond is susceptible to scission by pol... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
Monte Carlo and molecular dynamic approaches became useful tools for theoretical calculations aiming at predictions of adsorption equilibria and diffusivities in small pores of various simple geometries. The interactions between adsorbate molecules are represented by the Lenard-Jones potential:
where r is the interpart... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
RNA silencing or RNA interference refers to a family of gene silencing effects by which gene expression is negatively regulated by non-coding RNAs such as microRNAs. RNA silencing may also be defined as sequence-specific regulation of gene expression triggered by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). RNA silencing mechanisms ar... | 1 | Biochemistry |
When an electron moves through a gas, its interactions with the gas atoms cause scattering to occur. These interactions are classified as inelastic if they cause excitation or ionization of the atom to occur and elastic if they do not.
The probability of scattering in such a system is defined as the number of electrons... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
TBS is isotonic and non-toxic. It can be used to dilute substances used in laboratory experiments. Additives can be used to add to a compound's functionality.
TBS is often used in immuno-blotting for both membrane washing and antibody dilution. | 1 | Biochemistry |
The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) is a public website and research tool that curates scientific data describing relationships between chemicals, genes/proteins, diseases, taxa, phenotypes, GO annotations, pathways, and interaction modules, launched on November 12, 2004.
The database is maintained by the De... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Kinetic binding experiments differ from saturation and competition experiments in that they are not done at equilibrium. Instead, they measure the course of binding of the radioligand during the experiment as well as the dissociation to determine calculation of the Kd, and rate constants of binding and dissociation. Ki... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Reaction progress kinetic analysis relies on the ability to accurately monitor the reaction conversion over time. This goal may be accomplished by a range of techniques, the most common of which are described below. While these techniques are sometimes categorized as differential (monitoring reaction rate over time) or... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Berlin has undertaken research on a broad range of areas in both physical and theoretical chemistry, involving stochastic dynamics of complex systems, chemical kinetics and transport of active species in condensed phase and in biological molecules, physical chemistry of liquids and solids, theoretical biophysics and ph... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
In statistical mechanics, the entropy of an isolated system at thermodynamic equilibrium is defined as the natural logarithm of , the number of distinct microscopic states available to the system given the macroscopic constraints (such as a fixed total energy ):
This equation, which relates the microscopic details, or... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
The first reported use of a PPG in the scientific literature was by Barltrop and Schofield, who in 1962 used 253.7 nm light to release glycine from N-benzylglycine. Following this initial report, the field rapidly expanded throughout the 1970s as Kaplan and Epstein studied PPGs in a variety of biochemical systems. Duri... | 5 | Photochemistry |
The silicothermic reduction of dolomite was first developed by Amati in 1938 at the University of Padua. Immediately afterward, an industrial production was established in Bolzano (Italy), using what is now better known as the Bolzano process.
A few years later in 1939, when Canada and its allies entered WW2, they were... | 8 | Metallurgy |
Efficient ribosomal frameshifting generally requires the presence of an RNA secondary structure to enhance the effects of the slippery sequence. The RNA structure (which can be a stem-loop or pseudoknot) is thought to pause the ribosome on the slippery site during translation, forcing it to relocate and continue replic... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Configurational electronic entropy is usually observed in mixed-valence transition metal oxides, as the charges in these systems are both localized (the system is ionic), and capable of changing (due to the mixed valency). To a first approximation (i.e. assuming that the charges are distributed randomly), the molar con... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
In chemistry, the term supramolecular chirality is used to describe supramolecular assemblies that are non-superposable on their mirror images.
Chirality in supramolecular chemistry implies the non-symmetric arrangement of molecular components in a non-covalent assembly. Chirality may arise in a supramolecular system ... | 4 | Stereochemistry |
Omega oxidation (ω-oxidation) is a process of fatty acid metabolism in some species of animals. It is an alternative pathway to beta oxidation that, instead of involving the β carbon, involves the oxidation of the ω carbon (the carbon most distant from the carboxyl group of the fatty acid). The process is normally a mi... | 1 | Biochemistry |
A biomaterial should perform its intended function within the living body without negatively affecting other bodily tissues and organs. In order to prevent unwanted organ and tissue interactions, biomaterials should be non-toxic. The toxicity of a biomaterial refers to the substances that are emitted from the biomateri... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Hyperconjugation affects several properties.
# Bond length: Hyperconjugation is suggested as a key factor in shortening of sigma bonds (σ bonds). For example, the single C–C bonds in 1,3-butadiene and propyne are approximately 1.46 Å in length, much less than the value of around 1.54 Å found in saturated hydrocarbons. ... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Photoelectrochemical oxidation (PECO) is the process by which light enables a semiconductor to promote a catalytic oxidation reaction. While a photoelectrochemical cell typically involves both a semiconductor (electrode) and a metal (counter-electrode), at sufficiently small scales, pure semiconductor particles can beh... | 5 | Photochemistry |
Organic thiocyanates are organic compounds containing the functional group RSCN. the organic group is attached to sulfur: R−S−C≡N has a S–C single bond and a C≡N triple bond.
Organic thiocyanates are valued building blocks. They allow to access efficiently various sulfur containing functional groups and scaffolds. | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
The society publishes the magazine Australian Biochemist with three issues per year. The publication started in 1998, following on from the ABS/ASBMB newsletter, which was started in 1970. | 1 | Biochemistry |
In addition to the parallelepiped primitive cells, for every Bravais lattice there is another kind of primitive cell called the Wigner–Seitz cell. In the Wigner–Seitz cell, the lattice point is at the center of the cell, and for most Bravais lattices, the shape is not a parallelogram or parallelepiped. This is a type o... | 3 | Analytical Chemistry |
One of the first dendrimers, the Newkome dendrimer, was synthesized in 1985. This macromolecule is also commonly known by the name arborol. The figure outlines the mechanism of the first two generations of arborol through a divergent route (discussed below). The synthesis is started by nucleophilic substitution of 1-br... | 6 | Supramolecular Chemistry |
In column chromatography a mixture of substances is dissolved in a mobile phase and passed over a stationary phase in a column. A selectivity factor is defined as the ratio of distribution coefficients, which describe the equilibrium distribution of an analyte between the stationary phase and the mobile phase. The sele... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
In principle one can calculate all the above thermodynamic observables from a single differential scanning calorimetry thermogram of the system assuming that the is independent of the temperature. However, it is difficult to obtain accurate values for this way. More accurately, the can be derived from the variations... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
The point groups are named according to their component symmetries. There are several standard notations used by crystallographers, mineralogists, and physicists.
For the correspondence of the two systems below, see crystal system. | 3 | Analytical Chemistry |
Lake Chichoj is located in the municipality of San Cristóbal Verapaz, department of Alta Verapaz, in Guatemala. The catchment of lake has been designated as a Protected Area, in an attempt to protect the lake from environmental degradation. Water routing through the catchment is made complex by karstic groundwater flow... | 2 | Environmental Chemistry |
Transcription factor TFA is a nuclear protein involved in the RNA polymerase II-dependent transcription of DNA. TFA is one of several general (basal) transcription factors (GTFs) that are required for all transcription events that use RNA polymerase II. Other GTFs include TFD, a complex composed of the TATA binding p... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Common adverse drug reactions are nausea and vomiting. People who are allergic to penicillin and other β-lactam antibiotics should take caution if taking imipenem, as cross-reactivity rates are high. At high doses, imipenem is seizurogenic. | 4 | Stereochemistry |
One application of the technique includes detection of protein modifications in two bacterial species Ehrlichia- E. muris and IOE. Cholera toxin B subunit (which binds to gangliosides), concanavalin A (which detects mannose-containing glycans) and nitrophospho molybdate-methyl green (which detects phosphoproteins) were... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
Hydrometallurgy is a technique within the field of extractive metallurgy, the obtaining of metals from their ores. Hydrometallurgy involve the use of aqueous solutions for the recovery of metals from ores, concentrates, and recycled or residual materials. Processing techniques that complement hydrometallurgy are pyrom... | 8 | Metallurgy |
Factors influencing habit include: a combination of two or more crystal forms; trace impurities present during growth; crystal twinning and growth conditions (i.e., heat, pressure, space); and specific growth tendencies such as growth striations. Minerals belonging to the same crystal system do not necessarily exhibit ... | 3 | Analytical Chemistry |
A typical protein-coding gene is first copied into RNA as an intermediate in the manufacture of the final protein product. In other cases, the RNA molecules are the actual functional products, as in the synthesis of ribosomal RNA and transfer RNA. Some RNAs known as ribozymes are capable of enzymatic function, while ot... | 1 | Biochemistry |
These codes typically use regular grids (cubical or rectangular cuboid), conjugate gradient method to solve large system of linear equations, and FFT-acceleration of the matrix-vector products which uses convolution theorem. Complexity of this approach is almost linear in number of dipoles for both time and memory. | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
The sigma-2 receptor is expressed in brain and retinal cells where it regulates key pathways involved in age-related diseases such as Alzheimers disease and synucleinopathies such as Parkinsons disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, as well as dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD). The normal activity of proce... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Bose first sent a paper to Einstein on the quantum statistics of light quanta (now called photons), in which he derived Plancks quantum radiation law without any reference to classical physics. Einstein was impressed, translated the paper himself from English to German and submitted it for Bose to the Zeitschrift für P... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Schwartz's reagent reduces amides to aldehydes.
Vinylation of ketones in high yields is a possible use of Schwartz's reagent.
Schwartz's reagent has been used in the synthesis of some macrolide antibiotics, (−)-motuporin, and antitumor agents. | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
General transcription factors (GTFs) or basal transcription factors are protein transcription factors that have been shown to be important in the transcription of class II genes to mRNA templates. Many of them are involved in the formation of a preinitiation complex, which, together with RNA polymerase II, bind to and... | 1 | Biochemistry |
The next major change in shutter hardware coincided with the American Civil War era. Heavy presses and punches were in use in factories around the country and a maturing rail transportation system opened inland areas for the products of the factories. Iron was the norm up until that time – steel had been expensive to p... | 8 | Metallurgy |
Energetic polymers (e.g. nitro or azido derivates of polymers) can be used as a binder to increase the explosive power in comparison with inert binders. Energetic plasticizers can be also used. The addition of a plasticizer lowers the sensitivity of the explosive and improves its processibility. | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Iron can be stored in ferritin as ferric iron due to the ferroxidase activity of the ferritin heavy chain. Dysfunctional ferritin may accumulate as hemosiderin, which can be problematic in cases of iron overload. The ferritin storage iron pool is much larger than the labile iron pool, ranging in concentration from 0.7 ... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Neuromuscular blocking agents exert their effect by modulating the signal transmission in skeletal muscles. An action potential is, in other words, a depolarisation in neurone membrane due to a change in membrane potential greater than the threshold potential leads to an electrical impulse generation. The electrical im... | 1 | Biochemistry |
Homoenolates are a type of functional group that have been used in synthetic organic chemistry since the 1980s. They are related to enolates, but represent an umpolung of their reactivity. Homoenolates can be formed with a variety of different metal counterions, including lithium, iron, silver, lead, titanium, tin, tel... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
One of the most famous reversible photochromic applications is color changing lenses for sunglasses. The largest limitation in using photochromic technology is that the materials cannot be made stable enough to withstand thousands of hours of outdoor exposure so long-term outdoor applications are not appropriate at thi... | 5 | Photochemistry |
The double bond of a glycal allows many other functional groups to be introduced into a monosaccharide. Like an alkene, a glycal can undergo electrophilic addition across the double bond to add in these new atoms such as halogens, epoxides, and nitrogen. The glycal double bond also allows a deoxy position (carbon in th... | 0 | Organic Chemistry |
Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (or hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography, HILIC) is a variant of normal phase liquid chromatography that partly overlaps with other chromatographic applications such as ion chromatography and reversed phase liquid chromatography. HILIC uses hydrophilic stationary phases... | 1 | Biochemistry |
In quantum mechanics, a doublet is a composite quantum state of a system with an effective spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −1/2 and +1/2. Quantum systems with two possible states are sometimes called two-level systems. Essentially all occurrences of doublets in nature arise fr... | 7 | Physical Chemistry |
Amorphous solids in general have a unique magnetic property because of their atomic disorder as explained above. They are rather soft metals and each has its own specific magnetic property depending on the means of production. In the splat quenching process, the metals are very soft and have superparamagnetic propertie... | 8 | Metallurgy |
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