Brick which originated from Bangui Region (in Central African Republic), was pre-activated with HCl at 90°C and coated with ferrihydrite. This material was used in the present work as an adsorbent mainly for the removal of metallic cations (Me2+ = Cd2+; Cu2+; Pb2+; Zn2+) from aqu...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9275
Roald A. Lambrechts, Balaji Srinivasan, Edzard M. Geertsema, Gerrit J. Poelarends, Ody C. M. Sibon & Marianne De Villiers·Chemical Science International Journal·2014
Pantetheine, a low molecular weight thiol, has been found to ameliorate symptoms in various disease models but specifically in Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration (PKAN). Pantetheine is usually administered in its disulfide form (i.e. pantethine) since pantethine is...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/7335
Among the diverse types of waste, glass is one of the most adequate recycling materials because it can be revived and recycled completely and hardly decomposes. The glass recycle process basically involves collecting, sorting, then crushing and grinding after which glass cullet i...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/8939
In this paper, two types of quinoline functionalized rhodium complexes were synthesized by stirring imidazolium salts with silver oxide to obtain silver carbenes. According to the method, the corresponding non chelated rhodium complexes were access by transmetallation of silver c...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9411
Aims: To compare various models describing the sorption of synthetic dyes in multicomponent systems. For selected models, their predictive ability (an ability to predict the sorption behavior in muticomponent systems from the model parameters obtained in the single-component syst...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9208
In the past few decades selenium nanoparticles have received a considerable importance because of its effective biological applications. Therefore, nano-structured Se-doped ZnO photocatalyst has been synthesized by electrochemical method, which is a simple and an inexpensive meth...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/8748
The amino acids, alanine (Ala) and phenyl alanine (Phe) and their Schiff bases (Ala-Sal), (Phe-Sal) were complexed with iron [III] metal. The complexes (Fe-Ala), (Fe-Phe) and Schiff bases complexes (Fe-Ala-Sal) and (Fe-Phe-Sal) were characterized by the UV, IR, NMR and SEM. The c...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9185
A simple, versatile and efficient method has been developed for the synthesis of 4H-pyran derivatives 4a-k via a three-component cyclocondensation of aldehydes, malononitrile and ethyl acetoacetate under heterogeneous conditions using silica supported ammonium acetate as the recy...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/5644
In this paper we present the results of a formal quantum-chemical analysis of the relationships between the electronic structure and In vitro cytotoxicity activity (measured in a cell-based assay using two different human tumor cell lines derived from human prostate cancer and le...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/8691
In view of generating new compounds for future drug development, we have synthesized some N-aminoalkylated derivatives of benzo[d][1,2,3]triazole by alkylating benzo[d][1,2,3]triazole in the presence of K2CO3/DMF using 1,6-dibromohexane to obtain the 2-(6-bromohexyl)-2H-benzo[d][...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9104
The study attempts to evaluate the nutritional composition of African wild antelope (Antelocapra americana). The data revealed that antelope meat contained high amount of crude protein (24.76g/100g), fat (5.32g/100g),moisture (8.08g/100g) and ash (4.67g/100g) respectively. Potass...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/7404
Sunflower oil is the non-volatile oil compressed from sunflower (Helianthus annuus) seeds. Sunflower oil contains predominantly linoleic (48–7%), oleic (14–40%), palmitic (4–9%) and stearitic (1–7%). In general, viscosity measures the resistance of a liquid to flow. From a molecu...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/8744
Aim: Synthesis, characterization, anti-HIV, anti-HCV and kinesin activities of new indomethacin analogues have been carried out. Methodology: Arylated derivatives of indomethacin via the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction using palladium acetate/triphenylphophineor palladium...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/8721
Aim: This study seeks to examine the cure characteristics and rheological properties of modified kaolin – Natural rubber vulcanizates. Methodology: Metal salt of rubber seed oil (RSO-Na) was used to modify kaolin and was then introduced into Natural Rubber (NR) by melt intercalat...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/6575
A very simple, ultra-sensitive and highly selective non-extractive spectrophotometric method for the determination of trace amount of cadmium using 2/, 3, 4/, 5, 7- pentahydroxyflavone (morin) has been developed. Morin reacts in a slightly acidic (0.000001-0.000012M H2SO4) in 50%...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/5829