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... Global interest in phytogenic feed additives as alternatives to antibiotics in feed has been spurred by the banning of antibiotic growth promoters by several countries. Suitable plant extracts for development of phytogenic feed additives should have therapeutic value and should also be safe. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial, antioxidant and anti-lipoxygenase activities as we ...
Ottelia alismoides; acetone; antipyretics; apoptosis; aquatic plants; carcinoma; caspase-3; cell cycle checkpoints; computer simulation; cyclins; death; diabetes; drug resistance; humans; lungs; membrane potential; metastasis; mitochondria; mitochondrial membrane; neoplasm cells; neoplasm progression; protein synthesis; skin neoplasms; therapeutics; traditional medicine; tuberculosis; India
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... The North-eastern parts of India have immense therapeutic floras, Ottelia alismoides is an aquatic plant that has been in use for a long time in traditional medicine for treating diseases like cancer, tuberculosis, diabetes, febrifuge, hemorrhoids, and rubefacient. In lung and skin carcinoma cells with a high rate of proliferation and metastasis including drug resistance and non-specific target ac ...
acetaldehyde; acetone; acrolein; air; air quality; environmental hazards; hazard characterization; human health; humans; inhalation exposure; risk; tomatoes; China
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... Aldehyde and ketone compounds are ubiquitous in the air and prone to adverse effects on human health. Cooking emission is one of the major indoor sources. Aiming to evaluate health risks associated with inhalation exposure to aldehyde and ketone compounds, 13 carbonyl compounds (CCs) released from heating 5 edible oils, 3 seasonings, and 2 dishes were investigated in a kitchen laboratory. For the ...
... A rapid and efficient method based on a novel nitrogen-doped porous graphene nanostructure (NDPG) was used for the speciation of mercury in water and human blood samples by the CV-AAS. The mixture of the NDPG, ionic liquid, and acetone was rapidly injected into the human blood, water, and food samples for mercury separation by the cloud point assisted dispersive ionic liquid-micro solid-phase extr ...
acetone; acetonitrile; chemical species; cumin; food composition; formic acid; mass spectrometry; methanol; rapid methods; solvents
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... A dilute-and-shoot based sequential window acquisition of all theoretical fragment-ion mass (SWATH-MS) approach was developed for rapid screening and determination of 23 synthetic dyes in spices. The analysis was carried out using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-QTOF-MS) with SWATH scanning mode. The target analytes were extracted with ...
acetone; alkylation; biomarkers; biomedical research; body fluids; digestion; mass spectrometry; peptides; proteome; proteomics; urinary bladder neoplasms; urine
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... Mass spectrometry (MS)-based urinary proteomics is increasingly used for clinical research. A critical step in urinary proteomic analysis comprises the implementation of a reliable sample preparation method with high yields of peptides and proteins. In this study, we developed a urinary sample preparation method, DRA-Urine (Direct reduction/alkylation in urine), which urinary proteins were directl ...
... In order to enhance the catalytic activity and improve the stability of Mn–Al oxides in acetone oxidation, it is interesting to have found that modulating and accelerating the rate-limiting step by Al substitution rather than just mixing of Mn and Al is crucial for hydrocarbon efficient catalytic destruction. Here, a series of Mn–Al oxides with different Al substitution ratios were prepared by a s ...
... The biological effect of acetone extracts from three selected plants, Lantana camara, Rhazya astricta, and Citrullus colocynthis, on the egg hatch rate, larvicidal activity, and larval development of Culex pipiens L. was investigated. The egg hatch rate of Cx. pipiens was significantly reduced (P<0.01) when the extracts of L. camara were used. Moreover, the used extracts significantly exhibited a ...
... Liquid-phase chemical grafting method was used to graft Zn onto TiO₂ with preferentially exposed (101) or (001) facet. The obtained ZnₓTiyOz materials were characterized using various techniques (e.g., XRD, Raman, DRIFTS etc.) and evaluated for the acetone-to-isobutene reaction. It was found that over TiO₂ (001), both terminal and bridging hydroxyls were readily titrated by Zn deposition, whereas ...
... Realizing the simultaneous adsorption and activation of O₂ and reactants over supported noble metal catalysts is crucial for the oxidation of organic hydrocarbons. Herein, we report a facile one-step ethylene glycol reduction method to synthesize difunctional Au(OH)Kₓ sites, which were anchored on a hierarchical hollow MFI support and adopted for acetone decomposition. The alkali ion-associated ad ...
... Surface lattice oxygen is crucial to the degradation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) over transition metal oxides according to the Mars–van Krevelen mechanism. Herein, λ-MnO₂ in situ grown on the surface of CoMn spinel was prepared by acid etching of corresponding spinel catalysts (CoMn-Hx-Ty) for VOC oxidation. Experimental and relevant theoretical exploration revealed that acid etching on t ...
... Synthesis of biofuel precursors via the hydroxyalkylation alkylation reaction is one of the solutions to the problem of depletion of renewable energy resources. This work examines the preparation of hydrochar via hydrothermal carbonization from low-cost biomass waste. Hydrochar was functionalized with three different Brønsted acidic moieties, namely sulfonic, nitrate and phosphate, to prepare a se ...
... The almond processing industry generates large volumes of effluent after the blanching process. Blanching water is one of the main by-products with a potential source of polyphenols. However, before being used or discharged, this by-product requires pretreatment. This work was aimed at paving the way toward using adsorption on XAD-7 HP macroporous resin for wastewater treatment. This promising tec ...
... Adsorptive removal of gas phase low concentration macromolecular organic component, represented by naphthalene, from the enclosed space using ordered mesoporous carbon (OMC) has been studied by molecular simulation and experimental investigation. The simulation results indicated that both adsorption capacity and adsorption stability of the OMCs for naphthalene decreased with the increase of pore s ...
acetone; ammonia; butanol; density functional theory; ethanol; hydrogen; isopropyl alcohol; temperature; transmission electron microscopy; volatile organic compounds
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... Monitoring volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in harsh environments, especially for safety applications, is a growing field that requires specialized sensor structures. In this work, we demonstrate the sensing properties toward the most common VOCs of columnar Al₂O₃/ZnO heterolayer-based sensors. We have also developed an approach to tune the sensor selectivity by changing the thickness of the expo ...
acetone; camphor; chemical species; chlorides; cobalt; high performance liquid chromatography; hydrogen bonding; hydrophobicity; lakes; liquid-phase microextraction; magnetism; neodymium; octanoic acid; pesticides; solvents; water analysis
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... In this work, hydrophobic magnetic deep eutectic solvents (HMDESs) were used in the development of a simple and rapid dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) approach coupled to high performance liquid chromatography with UV detection (HPLC-UV) for the determination of ten organic contaminants including five polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, four UV filters, and a pesticide from water at ...
... The solvent strength parameter (slope) and intercept (log kw) of the linear solvent strength model are determined for methanol-water (17 columns), acetonitrile-water (15 columns), acetone-water (7 columns), tetrahydrofuran-water (6 columns), and 2-propanol-water (4 columns) for varied compounds. It is shown that the linear region of the plots of the retention factor (log k) against the volume frac ...
... To investigate the flavor changes of Fuliji roast chicken during processing and storage, the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during processing (fresh, fried, stewed and sterilized) and storage (1 month, 2 months and 4 months) were determined by gas chromatography ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS). A total of 47 kinds of VOCs were identified across seven sampling stages, including aldehydes, hyd ...
... The objective of this pilot study was to develop an analytical method for the determination of guvermectin residues in paddy water, soil, and rice using QuEChERS pre-treatment combined with Agilent 1260 Generation II high-performance liquid chromatography. The samples were extracted with acetone, purified with C18 absorbent, and filtered through a 0.2-μm organic filter membrane. The limits of dete ...
... Solvatochromic shifts of S═O vibrational probes describe the strength of the surrounding electric fields and the hydrogen bonding status. Herein, we demonstrated how the solvents alter the infrared (IR) spectra of the S═O vibrating mode. The experimental measurement of the involvement of α-H/D isotopic interactions with different solvents and their effects on the IR absorbance spectra of the vibra ...
... Cissampelos mucronata A. Rich., a perennial climber belonging to the family Menispermaceae, has been used traditionally to treat parasites and tuberculosis-related symptoms. Co-infection of helminth parasites and tuberculosis-causing pathogens heightens the risk of developing active tuberculosis. The aim was to isolate and characterize antimycobacterial compounds from Cissampelos mucronata and to ...
Ammar Hassanzadeh Keshteli; Rosica Valcheva; Cheryl Nickurak; Heekuk Park; Rupasri Mandal; Kendall van Diepen; Karen I. Kroeker; Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten; Brendan Halloran; David S. Wishart; Karen L. Madsen; Levinus A. Dieleman
... A relationship between ulcerative colitis (UC) and diet has been shown in epidemiological and experimental studies. In a 6-month, open-label, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, adult UC patients in clinical remission were randomized to either an “Anti-inflammatory Diet (AID)” or “Canada’s Food Guide (CFG)”. Menu plans in the AID were designed to increase the dietary intake of dietary fiber, pro ...
... Carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is resistant to most of the available antibiotics and poses serious therapeutic challenges. The study investigated Monsonia angustifolia (M. angustifolia) and Momordica balsamina Linn (M. balsamina Linn) extracts for antibacterial activity against a clinical isolate of carbapenemase-producing A. baumannii using the Kirby Bauer disc dif ...
Sarracenia purpurea; acetone; antioxidants; apoptosis; breast neoplasms; carnivores; computer simulation; computer software; drug therapy; enzyme activity; ethanol; ethnobotany; flavonoids; fluorouracil; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; humans; methanol; noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; root extracts
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... The carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea exhibits many ethnobotanical uses, including the treatments of type 2 diabetes and tuberculosis-like symptoms. In this study, we prepared different extracts from the leaves (pitchers), stems, and roots of S. purpurea and investigated their antioxidant and anticancer properties. To evaluate the extraction efficiency, we individually used different s ...
... The antioxidant and enzyme inhibitory effects of hexane, acetone and ethanol extracts of different parts (shells, nuts and whole fruits) of Pistacia terebinthus (terebinth) were determined against α-glucosidase, α-amylase, acetylcholineesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholineesterase (BChE). All extracts exhibited strong inhibitory effect against α-glucosidase with the IC₅₀ values (0.19-2.13 mg/mL) and ...
... The antimicrobial properties of Coriandrum sativum, Lactuca sativa, and Mentha spicata were examined using Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion technique. Among the solvents used for extraction, methanol, acetone, and n-hexane extracts were effective against antibiotic resistant microbes. The highest inhibition zone (17.0 ± 0.5 mm) was noted for the methanol extract of C. sativum against Bacillus cereus and ...
Mycobacterium smegmatis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Usnea; acetone; antibacterial properties; biomarkers; cytotoxicity; drug development; lichens; macrophages; menadione; metabolites; multiple drug resistance; rifampicin; synergism; traditional medicine; tuberculosis; usnic acid; Andes region
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... Tuberculosis (Tb) is one of the most infectious diseases caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.t) with almost 2 million deaths yearly. Although many Tb control programs have been organised, there is an elevated number of Tb cases due to the appearance of extremely drug-resistant and multidrug-resistant (MDR) Tb strains. In the cultures of Venezuelan Andes, fruticose lichen Usnea laevis Nyl. (Usn ...
... Crataegus pinnatifida is used to treat various diseases, including indigestion, congestive heart failure, hypertension, atherosclerosis, and myocardial dysfunction. We evaluated antioxidant and anti-α-glucosidase activities of various solvent extracts and major bioactive components from the fruit of C. pinnatifida. Ethyl acetate extracts showed potent antioxidant activities with IC₅₀ values of 23. ...
Camellia sinensis var. assamica; acetone; active sites; antioxidant activity; bioactive compounds; cytochrome P-450; energy; flavonoids; methanol; microbiology; qualitative analysis; therapeutics
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... Camellia sinensis and Camellia assamica are well known for their medicinal and therapeutic potential. The purpose of this work is to assess the flavonoid content and antioxidant potential of methanol extracts of C. sinensis (MES) and acetone extract of C. assamica (AEA) experimentally and computationally. Qualitative analysis was done to assess the presence of flavonoids. Further, the antioxidant ...
DNA damage; Terfezia; acetone; antimicrobial properties; antioxidant activity; antioxidants; cytotoxicity; dose response; drug therapy; genotoxicity; methanol; protective effect
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... Fungi can be used as a potent chemotherapeutic agent to treat various cancers. In current study acetone and methanol extracts of Terfezia claveryi, Terfezia boudieri, Terfezia olbiensis, Picoa lefebvrei, Picoa juniperi were used to assess total phenolic contents, antioxidant activity, ion-chelating impact, antimicrobial activity, the cytotoxic and protective effects. Both methanol and acetone extr ...
... Cooking fumes are an important source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), and carbonyl compounds. The additive is wildly applied in grilling meat for flavor improvement. However, the effects of additives on cooking fumes emissions, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), and carbonyl compounds, in meat grilling have not been studied. The impac ...
... Vector control strategies have focused on the development of effective and ecofriendly alternatives. In the present study, investigation of larvicidal and genotoxic effects of leaves of Hyptis suaveolens from four different extraction solvents (aqueous, hexane, methanol and acetone) on fourth instar larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus was carried out. Extraction was done using soxhlet apparatus and t ...
Capsicum annuum; acetone; active ingredients; agricultural colleges; food composition; food safety; half life; humidity; mancozeb; maximum residue limits; rain; solid phase extraction; spectrophotometers; tricyclazole; India
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... Multi-locational supervised field trials were conducted with ready-mix formulation of two fungicides, tricyclazole (18%) + mancozeb (62%) in green chili (Capsicum annuum) to assess the impacts of variable weather conditions on the residual profile for more realistic food safety evaluation. Liquid chromatography-Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry [LC-ESI(+ve)-MS/MS] and Ultraviolet Visible ( ...
... This article reports an array of water-compatible organocatalysts. The precatalysts are based on ferrocene (Fc) conjugates of l-amino acids having the general formula Fc[C(O)–O-aa-OBz]ₙ and Fc[C(O)–NH-Z-Lys-Obz]ₙ; aa = 4-trans-Z-Hyp, 4-cis-Z-Hyp, and Z-Ser; n = 1, 2; Z = benzyloxy carbonyl, Bz = benzylic; Hyp = hydroxyproline, Ser = Serine, and Lys = Lysine. The Fc is coupled to the amino acids th ...
acetaldehyde; acetone; carcinogenicity; chronic exposure; formaldehyde; health effects assessments; human health; ozone; pollution; risk; China
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... Ambient carbonyls were continuously observed in the field during a heavy ozone pollution episode in Chengdu, China from August 4 to August 19, 2019, and the pollution characteristics, atmospheric photochemical reactivity, human health risk, and sources of carbonyls were analyzed. Fifteen carbonyls were quantified with average total mixing ratios of 20.38 ppbv Formaldehyde (9.86 ppbv), acetone (4.4 ...
acetone; cost effectiveness; detection limit; electron transfer; energy; fluorides; oxygen
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... Atomic defects, such as steps and kinks, can promote the efficiency of chemical reactions. These defects provide coordinatively unsaturated sites (CUSs) in metal oxides and the CUSs react with other molecules with relatively lower energy. Thus, decoration with atomic step structures can be a cost-effective strategy that can replace novel metal catalysts to enhance the gas sensing performance. Here ...
... The Polygonaceae weed, Rumex dentatus L. grows in association with wheat, mustard and potato, while Polygonum glabrum Willd. grows in association with rice in India. Both larvae and adults of Galerucella placida Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) voraciously consume these weeds. Applications of synthetic herbicides to control weeds are harmful to the environment including beneficial organisms. We pr ...
... A new class of PVDF-based membranes suitable for membrane distillation were prepared via electrospinning. The classical fiber morphology of PVDF electrospun membranes was changed to generate a beaded structure by tuning the solvent ratio and operating parameters during membrane fabrication. Results showed that by increasing the N, N-Dimethylacetamide (DMAC) to acetone ratio used to prepare the PVD ...
Murillo L. Martins; Robert L. Sacci; Xiaobo Lin; Ray Matsumoto; Ivan Popov; Jinlei Cui; Takeshi Kobayashi; Madhusudan Tyagi; Wei Guo; Sheng Dai; Marek Pruski; Peter T. Cummings; Alexei P. Sokolov; Eugene Mamontov
acetone; acetonitrile; chemical species; electrochemistry; solvation; solvents
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... Concentrated solutions of Li salts in acetonitrile are promising alternative electrolytes for the next generation of Li batteries as they may exhibit superior electrochemical properties. However, the reduced mobility of the chemical species is a barrier yet to be overcome, and for this, we explore the utilization of acetone as a cosolvent. Although acetone is a polar compound, we find that its add ...
... The dried root of Ampelopsis japonica (Thunb.) Makino (A. japonica.) is a traditional medicine used to treat fever, pain, and wound healing. It exhibits anti-inflammatory, antitumor, antityrosinase, and antimelanogenic activities. In this paper, we used different solvent extracts from the root of A. japonica to determine their antioxidant activity. Acetone extract showed relatively strong antioxid ...
Carlos E. B. Toazza; Fernando C. Leal; Caroline Marques; Grazielle Oliveira; Fabiane O. Farias; André L. D. Belan; Natalicio F. Leite; Marcos R. Mafra; Luciana Igarashi‐Mafra; Maria Lucia Masson
... Lemongrasses are known and used worldwide due to several benefits conferred to them regarding the high content of essential oils and other phenolic compounds, which are essential and nonessential compounds that occur in nature, are part of the food chain and present several benefits on human health. The obtaining of phenolic compounds from natural matrices requires the development of effective pro ...
... The extraction of phenolic compounds from defatted hempseeds was optimized using a simplex lattice mixture design with three solvents (water, methanol, and acetone). The response variables were total phenolic content (TPC) and antioxidant activity evaluated by different spectrophotometric tests. The results showed that the binary acetone-water mixture in equal proportions is the optimal combinatio ...
... Botanical insecticides are known to affect insects through various mode of action which includes toxicity through ingestion, contact, antifeedant, growth inhibition, repellency, etc. The present study was aimed to explore the potential of Murraya paniculata leaf extracts against two important insect pests’, a storage pest, almond moth (Cadra cautella) and field crop pest, leaf-eating caterpillar ( ...
Calamintha; Staphylococcus aureus; acetone; active ingredients; antibacterial properties; antiseptics; bacterial growth; diarrhea; enzyme inhibition; fractionation; gel chromatography; growth retardation; hexane; intestines; mechanism of action; minimum inhibitory concentration; pneumonia; traditional medicine; Algeria
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... Calamintha species are frequently used in traditional medicine in Algeria as a stimulant, a tonic, an antiseptic, but also to treat digestive disorders and intestinal infections that cause diarrhea as well as pneumonia. Bioassay-guided fractionation led to the isolation of highly effective antistaphylococcal molecules from the aerial parts of Calamintha baborensis Batt., that could be responsible ...
... The aim of the present study is to provide a scientific rationale for the folklore usage of Cladonia pyxidata (L.) Hoffm. in treating tuberculosis (Tb). Through bioassay-guided isolation, antimycobacterial metabolites were isolated from under-investigated lichen C. pyxidata and examined against M.t H37Ra and six MDR strains. Further, the cytotoxicity of all isolated metabolites was evaluated on TH ...
acetone; adhesion; biodegradability; carbonates; cineole; gelatin; green chemistry; hydrophilicity; molecular weight; nanofibers; nanofiltration; oils; peptidase K; polyamides; polylactic acid; polymerization; solvents; thin film composite membranes; toxicity; water treatment
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... Green thin-film composite (TFC) membranes can offer a sustainable solution for the separation of complex mixtures in aqueous and organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN). However, the fabrication of TFC membranes has relied on toxic petrochemical-based monomers, solvents, and supports. Herein, we developed a green TFC membrane using solely sustainable resources. A fully biodegradable electrospun nanof ...
... Second-generation biofuel production has emerged as a prominent sustainable and alternative energy. The biochemical properties of cellulolytic enzymes are imperative for cellulosic biomass conversion into fermentable sugars. In the present study, thermostable CMCase and β-glucosidase were purified and characterized from Aspergillus fumigatus JCM 10253. The enzymes were purified through 80% ammoniu ...
... Growing use of recalcitrant fuel oxygenates like methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE), tert-amyl methyl ether (TAME), and diisopropyl ether (DIPE) poses serious threat to aquatic environments and drinking water sources. Mycolicibacterium sp. strain CH28 was isolated earlier as a potential degrader of DIPE. Optimal culture conditions for strain CH28 were determined to be 32 ...
... Biofuels are considered as a pre-eminent alternate to fossil fuels to meet the demand of future energy supply in a sustainable manner. Conventionally, they are produced from lignocellulosic raw materials. Saccharification of lignocellulosic raw materials for bioethanol production is a cumbersome process as compared to inulin-rich feedstocks. Various inulin-rich feedstocks, viz. jerusalem artichoke ...
... Pine wilt disease (PWD), caused by the pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is an international quarantine forest disease that damages pine forests over extensive areas and causes massive economic losses. To provide valuable guidelines on screening pesticides against B. xylophilus and the selection of common solvents, we investigated the effects of different concentrations of emamectin ...
... 2-Propanol is a widely used industrial solvents. Herein, we employed a unique feature of type I methanotrophic bacterium Methylotuvimicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z possessing only particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) for one-step direct production of pure 2-propanol from propane. By maintaining cell growth on glycerol, and after deletion of both Ca²⁺-dependent and La³⁺-dependent methanol dehydrogen ...
... Feedstock flexibility is highly advantageous for the viability of (solvent-based) biorefineries but comes with the considerable challenge of having to cope with the varying nature and typically high abundance of nonlignocellulose compounds in the most readily available residual biomass streams. Here, we demonstrate that mild aqueous acetone organosolv fractionation of various complex lignocellulos ...
... The DNA origami technique allows the precise synthesis of complex, biocompatible nanomaterials containing small molecules, biomolecules, and inorganic nanoparticles. The negatively charged phosphates in the backbone make DNA highly water-soluble and require salts to shield its electrostatic repulsion. DNA origamis are therefore not soluble in most organic solvents. While this is not problematic fo ...
... As promising sensing materials, reduced graphene oxide (RGO)-based nanomaterials have drawn considerable attention in the fields of gas monitoring owing to their low operating temperature. However, constructing RGO-based room-temperature gas sensors possessing ppb-level limit of detection with high sensitivity remains challenging. In this work, a series of highly sensitive NO₂ sensors were fabrica ...
Bryan Moreno-Chamba; Julio Salazar-Bermeo; María Concepción Martínez-Madrid; Victoria Lizama; Francisco Martín-Bermudo; Genoveva Berná; Madalina Neacsu; Domingo Saura; Nuria Martí; Manuel Valero
... Persimmon byproduct upcycling was performed by solvent-assisted extraction (SAE) to obtain dietary fiber (DF). The effect of SAE on DF modulation was studied on specific beneficial and pathogenic strains before and after the in vitro digestion process. Overall, digested DF samples extracted using acetone as a solvent (dCET) showed higher (p < 0.05) prebiotic activity scores (PASs) in beneficial ba ...
... Process applications of mid-infrared (MIR) spectrometry may involve replacement of the spectrometer and/or measurement probe, which generally requires a calibration transfer method to maintain the accuracy of analysis. In this study, direct standardisation (DS), piecewise direct standardisation (PDS) and spectral space transformation (SST) were compared for analysis of ternary mixtures of acetone, ...
... Hydrogels with environment remediation function have attracted increasing interest in the past decades. Herein, we report the in situ preparation of heat-set fluorescent Eu³⁺ hydrogels derived from terpyridine-modified PEI polymers (PEI-LysTPY) via sol–gel transition. We demonstrate that carbon dots with abundant amine groups, which are formed by pyrolysis of PEI derivatives, behave as efficient l ...
... Although butadiene is currently a byproduct of naphtha cracking, interest in producing butadiene from biobased ethanol has increased because of the lower environmental impact of the ethanol to butadiene reaction. This work explores a multifunctional catalyst system composed of silica-supported Ag and ZrO₂ used for the cascade reaction of ethanol to butadiene at 573 K. The Ag and ZrO₂ components we ...
acetone; alkylation; aviation; butanol; catalysts; ethanol; green chemistry; oligomerization; palladium
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... The present review encompasses the recent advances that have been carried out in the last years for the production of long-chain hydrocarbons from fermentation-derived compounds such as acetone, butanol and ethanol (ABE mixtures), among others, as a solution for obtaining product mixtures suitable for use as sustainable aviation fuels. An insight on the reaction pathways is given for the different ...
... In this study, a novel method for the enhanced production of aromatic hydrocarbons by biomass pyrolysis with Fe modified CaO and ZSM-5 was proposed. The feasibility of aforementioned method and related reaction mechanism for the formation of aromatic hydrocarbons were investigated in Py-GC/MS. The results showed that Fe modification of CaO increased its specific surface area and generated Ca₂Fe₂O₅ ...
... This work proposes a biorefinery approach for the utilization of agri-food residues, such as tomato pomace (TP), through combining chemical hydrolysis with high-pressure homogenization (HPH), aiming to achieve the isolation of cellulose with tailored morphological properties from underused lignocellulose feedstocks, along with the valorization of the value-added compounds contained in the biomass. ...
... Volatile flavor compounds determine the holistic, unique, sensory characteristic of fermented food. The characteristic volatiles across the fermentation process of Dongbei Suancai (DS) were investigated by headspace‐gas chromatography‐ion mobility spectrometry (HS‐GC‐IMS) combined with principal component analysis (PCA). A total of 19 representative flavor substances were identified in the samples ...
... Dermatophytoses representing a major global health problem and dermatophyte species with reduced susceptibility to antifungals are increasingly reported. Therefore, we investigated for the first time the antidermatophyte activity and phytochemical properties of the sequential extracts of the Egyptian privet Henna (Lawsonia inermis) leaves. Total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoids (TF), and a ...
... Sodium chloride (NaCl) is commonly used as a curing/preservative agent for raw hides and skins in tanneries and is removed through a soaking process with total dissolved solids (TDS) and other organic pollutants in effluent, causing significant pollution load to the environment. Hence, the present study evaluated to apply dried neem leaf powder (DNL) as an additive to reduce the usage of salt in s ...
acetates; acetone; anise; benzaldehyde; butyrates; cultivars; flavor; food science; least squares; methyl chavicol; odors; pears; tandem mass spectrometry; technology; wines
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... Dongli, or frozen pear, is a traditional Chinese snack with a unique flavor. This study identified the aroma-active volatile compounds (VOCs) in Dongli using quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA), gas chromatography-triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS), and gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O). QDA indicated that Dongli of all cultivars presented increased sweet and wine aroma ...
... In recent years, biochar, a porous carbon-based material, has gained attention for its application prospects in contaminated soil remediation and soil improvement. Biochar-derived organic matter has a key role in influencing the migration and transformation of soil elements and pollutants. However, existing research concerning the molecular characteristics of biochar-derived organic matter is limi ...
... There is an increasingly growing demand for the use of natural and sustainable bioactives in the field of the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. The biomass from black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) can be viewed as an innovative source of compounds with high aggregate value and marketing potential due to the sustainable organic matter bioconversion process used as substrate for its d ...
... During ABE fermentation, the bacterial toxicity of produced solvents, especially butanol at a high concentration, can cause low butanol productivity. This study aimed to characterize an integrated gas stripping and novel ABE recovery system using two-stage condensation equipped with an absorption unit for butanol recovery from the model ABE aqueous solution. The potential off-gas from ABE fermenta ...
... This study reports a full characterization of the Sicilian sumac, Rhus coriaria L. This fruit represents a potential source of fiber (33.21 ± 1.02%) and unsaturated fatty acids, being the contents of linoleic and α-linolenic acids, 30.82 ± 1.21% and 1.85 ± 0.07%, respectively. In addition, the content of phenolic and total anthocyanin was 71.69 ± 1.23 mg/g as gallic acid equivalents, and 6.71 ± 0. ...
... The exploration of new bioactive compounds from natural resources as alternatives to synthetic chemicals has recently attracted the attention of scientists and researchers. To our knowledge, the essential oil (EO) of Kickxia aegyptiaca has not yet been explored. Thus, the present study was designed to explore the EO chemical profile of K. aegyptiaca for the first time, as well as evaluate its anti ...
... The result of this study is the chemical characterization of sapwood (SW) and heartwood (HW) of Fraxinus angustifolia native to Algeria. Lipophilic and hydrophilic extractives were isolated by means of an accelerated solvent extractor (ASE) using hexane and the acetone/water mixture respectively. The acid hydrolysis and methanolysis methods were used to determine cellulose and hemicelluloses conte ...
... The essential oil isolated from Mentha longifolia has not been evaluated for it's nematicidal activity and thus was evaluated against J2s of Meloidogyne graminicola and chemical composition using GC and GC-MS. The yield of essential oil was 1.17% on fresh weight basis. In GC-MS analysis, a totalsixteen compounds representing 84.53% of the oil were identified. The oil was found rich in oxygenated m ...
... Nine non-alkaloid constituents viz., sitostenone (1), β-sitosterol (2), naringenin (3), aromadendrin (4), matairesinol (5), vanillic acid (6), ferulic acid (7), protocatechuic acid (8) and sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (9) were isolated from the acetone extract as well as five alkaloids viz., japindine (10), sarcorucinine D (11), dictyophlebin (12), chonemorphine (13) and N-formylchonemorphin ...
... A paucity of local information concerning the chemical profiles and biological activities of extracts obtained from less‐studied P. granatum peel of Jordanian origin was considered in this study for the first time. Fractionation of the crude ethanol extracts was performed because of their higher phenolic and flavonoid contents compared to the water and acetone extracts. The chemical compositions o ...
... Daphne gnidium L. (Thymelaeaceae) is an evergreen shrub from the Mediterranean area traditionally used for its medicinal and non-medicinal properties. Several studies showed its adverse impact on different targets including malignant cells, microbes, radicals, insects. The negative interactions between D. gnidium and other plant species have been rather neglected so far, as well as its chemical vo ...
... Incorporating rigid cyclic acetal and ketal units into polymer structures is an important strategy toward recyclable high-performance materials from renewable resources. In the present work, citric acid, a widely used platform chemical derived from biomass, has been efficiently converted into di- and tricyclic diketones. Ketalization with glycerol or trimethylolpropane afforded rigid spirodiols, w ...
... One of the more important classes of potentially toxic indoor air chemicals are the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). However, due to a limited understanding of the relationships between indoor concentrations of individual VOCs and health outcomes, there are currently no universal health-based guideline values for VOCs within Europe including the UK. In this study, a systematic search was conduct ...
... Semiconductor metal oxide (SMO) gas sensors have attracted considerable attention for detecting environmental pollution, as well as the accidental leakage of flammable, explosive, and toxic gases. SMOs are known to exhibit high sensitivity, fast response time, and excellent selectivity towards various types of gases. Many new strategies have been implemented to improve these characteristics. Among ...
... Artichoke has several biological actions, which are related to the synergistic action of its bioactive compounds. Solid-liquid extraction influence the type and quantity of compounds extracted and, consequently, the biological activity of the plant extract. This study aims to investigate which extraction method (maceration, infusion, or Soxhlet) and which green solvent (ethanol or acetone) would b ...
... BACKGROUND: Chlorothalonil is a nonsystemic fungicide, and it is one of the most widely detected pesticides in bee hives. The effect of chlorothalonil on the survival, weight, and gut microbiota of immature Apis mellifera L. reared in vitro was studied. RESULTS: Larvae were fed 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 μg/mL chlorothalonil and compared with larvae fed the negative control (diet without any additives), p ...
... A comprehensive and comparative study has been performed exploiting localized surface plasmon resonance phenomenon with the purpose of sensing volatile liquids (viz. acetone, ethanol, and propanol). Accordingly, two varying geometries, namely D-type and tapered, have been used. The response has been observed by a low-cost optical detector. With utilization of AuNPs coated probe, D-type exhibits hi ...
... Phenotypic heterogeneity in bioprocesses is suspected to reduce performances, even in case of monoclonal cultures. Here, robustness of an engineered isopropanol-overproducing strain and heterogeneity of its plasmid expression level were evaluated in fed-batch cultures. Previously, eGFP was identified as a promising plasmid expression reporter for C. necator. Here, the behavior of 3 engineered stra ...
... A novel approach of bioactive lipid extraction by different green solvents was carried out on squid (Doryteuthis gahi) by-products. By-products (viscera, heads, skin, tails, etc.), considered as a single product, were subjected to the following solvent systems: ethanol, acetone, ethyl acetate, 1/1 ethanol/acetone, 1/1 ethanol/ethyl acetate, and 1/1 acetone/ethyl acetate. Analyses carried out inclu ...
... KBs (ketone bodies), i.e., acetoacetate, acetone, and (R)-3-Hydroxybutanoate, constitute the intermediate products of the incomplete oxidative degradation of fatty acids. These KBs are used as a source of energy in the hosts' brain, skeletal muscles, and heart. Additionally, they regulate inflammation and oxidative stress of the host by acting as signaling mediators. Parasitic infection is known t ...
... Fish skin mucus secretion is an important strategy against pathogens since it contains several immune molecules that act as the first line of defence. To date, several studies have reported that the mucus composition and immune responses vary depending on the fish species, and consequently, the comparative studies on skin mucus may have beneficial applications in the field of aquaculture. Therefor ...
... The abatement of indoor volatile organic compounds (VOCs) represents a major challenge due to their environmental risk, wide nature and concentration variability. Biotechnologies represent a cost-effective, robust and sustainable platform for the treatment of hazardous VOCs at low and fluctuating concentrations. However, they have been scarcely implemented for indoor air purification. Thus, little ...
... The use of cosolvents to solubilize compounds under investigation while having minimal effects on enzyme activity is an important component in many biochemical studies. Predicting the effects of cosolvents on enzyme activity can be complicated, as enzymes with similar overall structures might exhibit different behaviors in different cosolvents. In this study, the effects of several commonly used c ...
... Polyphenols with antioxidant compounds represent an important group of bioactive substances in apple production. The objectives of this study were firstly to measure four parameters of antioxidant capacity (AC) and polyphenol content (AC-FRAP (Ferric Reducing Ability of Plasma), AC-DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrol), AC-TEAC (Trolox Equivalent Antioxidant Capacity) and total polyphenol content (TP ...
... Portulaca oleracea is a well-known species for traditional medicine and food homology in Taiwan. In traditional medicine, P. oleracea is also used to treat gastrointestinal disorders, liver inflammation, fever, severe inflammation, and headaches. We investigated antioxidant, anti-tyrosinase, and anti-α-glucosidase activities of various solvent extracts and major bioactive components from P. olerac ...
Anemarrhena asphodeloides; Liliaceae; Oriental traditional medicine; acetone; antidepressants; antioxidant activity; chloroform; common names; ethanol; herbal medicines; hexane; hyperglycemia; hypoglycemic agents; methylene chloride; rhizomes; solvents; superoxide anion; Asia
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... The rhizome of Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge (AA, family Liliaceae) is a famous and frequently used herbal drug in the traditional medicine of Northeast Asia, under vernacular name “zhimu”. A. asphodeloides has been used as an anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, anti-platelet aggregation, anti-depressant, and anti-diabetic agent in traditional Chinese medicine. We examined the antioxidant, anti-acet ...
... In this study we reported the development of an extensively characterized (end point assays) insulin-resistant in vitro model and comparison of anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant and anti-lipogenesis activity of Holarrhena antidysenterica (HA) leaf and bark, each extracted with 7 different solvents using the in vitro model. An in vitro model was developed by giving hyperglycaemic shock with 50 mM glucose ...
... This study investigated the effect of different milking systems on the milk composition and microbial community of raw milk in a commercial dairy farm. Raw milk samples from conventional milking system (CMS) and automatic milking system (AMS) were collected and the microbiota on each was assessed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Results showed that the acetone (P = 0.031) and β-hydroxybutyrate (P≤0.00 ...
Elena S. Baena-Santillán; Javier Piloni-Martini; Esmeralda Rangel-Vargas; Carlos A. Gómez-Aldapa; Manuel Sánchez-Gutiérrez; Eduardo O. Madrigal-Santillán; Javier Castro-Rosas
... The main aim of this study was to determine and compare the antimicrobial effect of hibiscus acid and a commercial 0.12% (w/v) chlorhexidine mouthrinse against Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus sanguinis, Capnocytophaga gingivalis, and Staphylococcus aureus, and to determine the effect on bacterial cell membrane permeability and the toxicity of hibiscus acid in a mouse model. Hibiscus acid was o ...
... This work aimed to describe the adsorption of volatile organic compound (VOC) vapor from gas streams onto WG-12 activated carbon modified with DL-malic acid. The properties of adsorbents were studied by thermogravimetric (TG) analysis, total acidity, total basicity, and elemental analysis. The adsorption behaviors of acetone and ethyl acetate for activated carbons modified with dl-malic acid were ...
... To reuse organic acids in wastewater, efficient acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation was constructed using mixed acetic acid and lactic acid. The mixed acids were co-consumed with glucose, producing higher butanol concentration (6.96 g/L) and butanol yield (0.494 C-mol/C-mol) than using each single acid (6.22 g/L and 0.432 C-mol/C-mol). This result was verified by ¹³C tracer experiment that ...
... With the unprecedent global biodiesel production growth, massive amounts of crude glycerol have been generated as a byproduct of this industry. Solketal, the reaction product of glycerol and acetone, stands out as a promising jet fuel additive due to its antifreezing property. Solketal production via glycerol ketalization is thermodynamically limited, a problem surpassed by sorption-enhanced strat ...
acetone; active ingredients; air; cost effectiveness; data collection; ethanol; nanocatalysts; oxidation; prices; toluene; volatile organic compounds
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... VOC (volatile organic compounds) belong to the group of undesirable air pollutants and their industrial emissions need to be treated before venting out into the atmosphere. From various advanced technologies for VOC mitigation, catalytic oxidation technology stands out as the modern and efficient method. This review presents the recent advances in the development and usage of novel catalysts for d ...
... Micro-nano heterogeneous oxides have received extensive attention due to their distinctive physicochemical properties. However, it is a challenge to prepare the hierarchical multicomponent metal oxide nanomaterials with abundant heterogeneous interfaces in a controllable way. In this work, the effective construction of the heterogeneous structure of the material is achieved by regulating the ratio ...
... In this work, the design of robust polyimide (PI) membranes applicable for precise molecular sieving in organic solvents using an ingenious thermal annealing process is reported. In this method, a porous PI ultrafiltration membrane was used as precursor and the temperature was controlled at around the glass transition temperature (Tg) of PI. The crosslinking and relaxation of the polymer chains oc ...
acetone; catalysts; condensation reactions; green chemistry; hydrogenation; hydroxymethylfurfural; reaction kinetics
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... We studied the hydrogenation at temperatures from 313–393 K of a biomass-derived platform molecule, 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF)-acetone-HMF (HAH) over Pd, Ru, and Cu based catalysts. HAH was selectively hydrogenated to produce partially-hydrogenated monomers (PHAH) over Cu and Ru catalysts and to fully-hydrogenated HAH monomers (FHAH) over the Ru catalyst. Pd based catalysts yielded a mixture o ...