Investigation of the cardiotoxic peptides of the venom of the cobraNaja oxiana

Six populations of basic polypeptides have been found in the venom of the Central Asian cobraNaja oxiana Eichwald, and four of them — V″c-1, V″c-2, V″c-5, and V″c-6 — have been obtained in the electrophoretically homogeneous state. On a perfused frog heart preparation, all the basic polypeptides proved to be cardiotoxic. However, only some of them (V′c-2, V″c-3, and V″c-4) were characterized by arrhythmic activity as well as by the negative ino- and chronotropic effects, common for all of them. An enhancement of the specific cardiotoxic effect of each of the polypeptides by pure phospholipase A-2 has been shown.     

Membrane filtration studies of aquatic humic substances and their metal species: a concise overview. Part 2. Evaluation of conditional stability constants by using ultrafiltration

The assessment of conditional stability constants of aquatic humic substance (HS) metal complexes is overviewed with special emphasis on the application of ultrafiltration methods. Fundamentals and limitations of stability functions in the case of macromolecular and polydisperse metal-HS species in aquatic environments are critically discussed. The review summarizes the advantages and application of ultrafiltration for metal-HS complexation studies, discusses the comparibility and reliability of stability constants. The potential of ultrafiltration procedures for characterizing the lability of metal-HS species is also stressed.     

Dialkyltin salts as extractants in methods for the determination of arsenic and phosphorus

Dialkyltin salts are suitable as extractants for various oxygen-containing anions. They are particulary powerful for the extraction of arsenate and phosphate ions, but are also useful for liquid-liquid extraction of anions of dibasic acids. It is shown that the high extraction power of these dialkyltin complexes can be explained by formation of innersphere complexes with the extracted anions. A method is proposed for the separation of arsenic, phosphorus and silicon using dialkyltin salts. Applications to the extraction-spectrophotometric determination of phosphorus and arsenic in vanadium and steel, and to extraction/atomic absorption determinations of arsenic and phosphorus in metals and alloys are surveyed. The use of the dialkyltin salts for the neutron activation determination of arsenic and as active components in membranes of ion-selective electrodes for phosphorus(V) and arsenic(V) is demonstrated.     

Liquid-liquid extraction in the absence of usual organic solvents: Application of two-phase aqueous systems based on a water-soluble polymer

Summary Capabilities of liquid-liquid extraction systems without organic solvents have been examined. Ternary poly(ethylene glycol)-inorganic salt-water systems have been proposed for extraction of complexes of metals with water-soluble organic reagents and inorganic ligands.Phase diagrams for such two-phase systems have been studied. The distribution of some inorganic ions and organic reagents in PEG 2000-ammonium sulphate systems has been examined at different pH values of the salt-phase. It is shown that the distribution coefficients are lower than unit for all the cations studied while reagents, containing aromatic rings, are extracted into the PEG-phase with distribution coefficients higher than one hundred. Conditions are reported which provide effective extraction of iron(III) in presence of several water-soluble photometric reagents. Extraction in the PEG 2000-ammonium sulphate-water system in presence of ammonium thiocyanate and sulphuric acid has been studied. Copper, zinc, cobalt, iron(III), indium, molybdenum(V) are extracted into the PEG-phase with high distribution coefficients.

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Flüssig-flüssig-Extraktion ohne übliche organische Lösungsmittel: Anwendung wäriger Zweiphasen-Systeme mit einem wasserlöslichen Polymerisat

Zusammenfassung Die Eignung von Flüssig-flüssig-Extraktions-Systemen ohne organisches Lösungsmittel wurde geprüft. Ternäre Systeme aus Polyethylenglykol-anorganischem Salz-Wasser wurden für die Extraktion von Metallkomplexen mit wasserlöslichen organischen Reagenzien und anorganischen Liganden vorgeschlagen.Die Phasendiagramme solcher Zwei-Phasen-Systeme wurden untersucht. Die Verteilung einiger anorganischer Ionen und organischer Reagenzien in Polyethylenglykol (PEG) 2000-Ammoniumsulfat-Systemen wurde bei verschiedenem pH der Salzphase geprüft. Dabei ergab sich, daß die Verteilungskoeffizienten für alle untersuchten Kationen geringer sind als eins, während Reagenzien, die einen aromatischen Ring enthalten, in die PEG-Phase mit Verteilungskoeffizienten über 100 extrahiert werden. Versuchsbedingungen für die wirkungsvolle Extraktion von Fe(III) in Gegenwart verschiedener wasserlöslicher photometrischer Reagenzien wurden angegeben. Die Extraktion mit PEG 2000-Ammoniumsulfat-Wasser in Gegenwart von Ammoniumrhodanid und Schwefelsäure wurde untersucht. Kupfer, Zink, Kobalt, Eisen (III), Indium und Molybdän werden mit hohem Verteilungskoeffizienten in die PEG-Phase extrahiert.

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The paper has been presented at the Fifth European Conference on Analytical Chemistry (Euroanalysis V), Cracow, August 26–31, 1984.     

Hydroxyapatite nanoparticle prepared by controlled precipitation from aqueous phase

Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared by controlled precipitation in the presence of stabilizers that confined growth and inhibited the aggregation of nanoparticles. Electrostatically stabilized NPs were prepared in the presence of sodium citrate; Tween 80 was used for steric stabilization. At low stabilizer concentrations, nanorods were formed of grown together, spheroidal hydroxyapatite NPs of ~20 nm in diameter. The rod length decreased as ether sodium citrate or Tween 80 concentration increased. When Cit^3–/Ca²⁺ = 3mol/mol, platelike NPs were formed 20–45 nm long and ~10 nm wide; for Cit^3–/Ca²⁺ = 4 mol/mol, NPs had sizes of 10–15 nm. At relatively high Tween 80 concentrations (>0.05 mol/L), foamlike structures were obtained.     

Multistep flow-membrane filtration,gel-permeation chromatography,and spectrophotometric determination of polydisperse compounds

To determine the molecular weight distribution of natural polydisperse compounds (peat humic acids) and synthetic substituted polyvinyls, membrane filtration, gel-permeation chromatography, and spectrophotometric determination procedures were developed. The determination limit of polyvinyls was 0.1–0.2 mg/mL. The absorbance of polyvinyl solutions was a linear function of the concentration over the range 0.1–6.0 mg/mL. It was found that the size-fraction distributions of both humic substances and substituted polyvinyls depended not only on the molecular weight, but also the molecular conformation.     

Surprising secondary photochemical reactions observed on conventional photolysis of diazotetrahydrofuranones

The formation of C-H insertion products of the terminal N-atom of a diazo group into the α-СН-bond of tetrahydrofuran during direct photolysis of regioisomeric 2,2-dimethyl-5,5-diphenyl and 5,5-dimethyl-2,2-diphenyl-substituted 3-diazotetrahydrofuran-4-ones in THF is dictated by photochemical cycloelimination of the originally formed (1,1-dimethyl-2-oxa-3,3-diphenyl-propano)ketene and oxetanecarboxylic acid derivatives to yield benzophenone. The latter, under subsequent UV irradiation of the reaction mixture, initiates sensitized photolysis of the starting diazoketones resulting in the appearance of the insertion products with the solvent.