The adaptive capabilities of Elodea canadensis under the influence of anthropogenic factors

Studies on the potential adaptation of one of the common aquatic macrophytes Elodea canadensis when immersed in a medium containing anthropogenic pollutants of various origins – metals (inorganic salts); organic salts, mineral acids; oil and its derivatives - water-soluble petrochemicals. It was found that almost all the studied pollutants do not show a clear external effect on the solid fragments of the plant (cell membranes). Thus, it was shown that Elodea canadensis is tolerant of anthropogenic pollutants that differ in nature, hazard class, physico-chemical properties, etc.

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INVESTIGATION OF EROSION RESISTANCE OF GRAY-BROWN SOILS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN SLOPES OF THE GREATER CAUCASUS

Natural resources of the Earth and environmental protection ◽

10.26787/nydha-2713-203x-2020-1-7-8-9-47-49 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 47-49

Author(s):

Aliyev Z.H.

Keyword(s):

Erosion Resistance ◽

Preventive Measures ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Anthropogenic Factors ◽

Erosion Process ◽

Greater Caucasus ◽

Sloping Lands ◽

Set Up ◽

Physical And Chemical ◽

And Chemical Properties

In recent years, sharp changes have occurred in the state of sloping lands of Azerbaijan. There was tension from the influence of the anthropogenic factors on the mountain slopes. The fact that the erosion process is rein-forced in the research site. Due to lack of agrotechnical measures on the slopes erosion process has been strength-ened, soil flooded with soil, physical and chemical properties of the soil have deteriorated, nutritional elements are reduced, vegetation is reduced and destruction limit. For some reason, the purpose of the research was Aqsu, two land cuts were set up to determine the degree of actual erosion in the Qizmeydan village. prevent erosion intensity, take preventive measures to take and implement appropriate measures.

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Amorphous and Crystalline Particulates: Challenges and Perspectives in Drug Delivery

Current Pharmaceutical Design ◽

10.2174/1381612822666161107162109 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 350-361 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Hisham Al-Obaidi ◽

Mridul Majumder ◽

Fiza Bari

Keyword(s):

Crystal Engineering ◽

Drug Carrier ◽

Solid Dispersions ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Pharmaceutical Product ◽

Water Soluble ◽

Amorphous Form ◽

Physico Chemical ◽

Water Soluble Drugs ◽

Amorphous Drug

Crystalline and amorphous dispersions have been the focus of academic and industrial research due to their potential role in formulating poorly water-soluble drugs. This review looks at the progress made starting with crystalline carriers in the form of eutectics moving towards more complex crystalline mixtures. It also covers using glassy polymers to maintain the drug as amorphous exhibiting higher energy and entropy. However, the amorphous form tends to recrystallize on storage, which limits the benefits of this approach. Specific interactions between the drug and the polymer may retard this spontaneous conversion of the amorphous drug. Some studies have shown that it is possible to maintain the drug in the amorphous form for extended periods of time. For the drug and the polymer to form a stable mixture they have to be miscible on a molecular basis. Another form of solid dispersions is pharmaceutical co-crystals, for which research has focused on understanding the chemistry, crystal engineering and physico-chemical properties. USFDA has issued a guidance in April 2013 suggesting that the co-crystals as a pharmaceutical product may be a reality; but just not yet! While some of the research is still oriented towards application of these carriers, understanding the mechanism by which drug-carrier miscibility occurs is also covered. Within this context is the use of thermodynamic models such as Flory-Huggins model with some examples of studies used to predict miscibility.

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Insights on Molecular Characteristics of Hydrochars by 13C-NMR and Off-Line TMAH-GC/MS and Assessment of Their Potential Use as Plant Growth Promoters

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26041026 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 1026 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laís G. Fregolente ◽

João Vitor dos Santos ◽

Giovanni Vinci ◽

Alessandro Piccolo ◽

Altair B. Moreira ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Plant Growth ◽

Phosphoric Acid ◽

13C Nmr ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Water Soluble ◽

Molecular Characteristics ◽

Initial Growth ◽

Growth Promoters ◽

Molecular Features ◽

Potential Use

Hydrochar is a carbon-based material that can be used as soil amendment. Since the physical-chemical properties of hydrochar are mainly assigned to process parameters, we aimed at evaluating the organic fraction of different hydrochars through 13C-NMR and off-line TMAH-GC/MS. Four hydrochars produced with sugarcane bagasse, vinasse and sulfuric or phosphoric acids were analyzed to elucidate the main molecular features. Germination and initial growth of maize seedlings were assessed using hydrochar water-soluble fraction to evaluate their potential use as growth promoters. The hydrochars prepared with phosphoric acid showed larger amounts of bioavailable lignin-derived structures. Although no differences were shown about the percentage of maize seeds germination, the hydrochar produced with phosphoric acid promoted a better seedling growth. For this sample, the greatest relative percentage of benzene derivatives and phenolic compounds were associated to hormone-like effects, responsible for stimulating shoot and root elongation. The reactions parameters proved to be determinant for the organic composition of hydrochar, exerting a strict influence on molecular features and plant growth response.

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A Review on Coordination Properties of Al(III) and Fe(III) toward Natural Antioxidant Molecules: Experimental and Theoretical Insights

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26092603 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (9) ◽

pp. 2603

Author(s):

Luana Malacaria ◽

Giuseppina Anna Corrente ◽

Amerigo Beneduci ◽

Emilia Furia ◽

Tiziana Marino ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Chemical Properties ◽

Natural Antioxidants ◽

Point Of View ◽

Water Soluble ◽

Natural Antioxidant ◽

Theoretical Point ◽

Structure And Properties ◽

Coordination Properties ◽

Soluble Molecule ◽

Living Organisms

This review focuses on the ability of some natural antioxidant molecules (i.e., hydroxycinnamic acids, coumarin-3-carboxylic acid, quercetin, luteolin and curcumin) to form Al(III)- and Fe(III)-complexes with the aim of evaluating the coordination properties from a combined experimental and theoretical point of view. Despite the contributions of previous studies on the chemical properties and biological activity of these metal complexes involving such natural antioxidants, further detailed relationships between the structure and properties are still required. In this context, the investigation on the coordination properties of Al(III) and Fe(III) toward these natural antioxidant molecules might deserve high interest to design water soluble molecule-based metal carriers that can improve the metal’s intake and/or its removal in living organisms.

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Soil ammonia-oxidizing archaea in a paddy field with different irrigation and fertilization managements

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-93898-y ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Limin Wang ◽

Dongfeng Huang

Keyword(s):

Ammonia Oxidation ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Paddy Soils ◽

Soil Nitrification ◽

Treated Soil ◽

Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea ◽

Rice Yields ◽

Traditional Irrigation ◽

Almost All ◽

And Function

AbstractBecause ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are ubiquitous and highly abundant in almost all terrestrial soils, they play an important role in soil nitrification. However, the changes in the structure and function of AOA communities and their edaphic drivers in paddy soils under different fertilization and irrigation regimes remain unclear. In this study, we investigated AOA abundance, diversity and activity in acid paddy soils by a field experiment. Results indicated that the highest potential ammonia oxidation (PAO) (0.011 μg NO 2 - –N g-1 d.w.day-1) was found in T2 (optimal irrigation and fertilization)—treated soils, whereas the lowest PAO (0.004 μg NO 2 - –N g-1 d.w.day-1) in T0 (traditional irrigation)- treated soils. Compared with the T0—treated soil, the T2 treatment significantly (P < 0.05) increased AOA abundances. Furthermore, the abundance of AOA was significantly (P < 0.01) positively correlated with pH, soil organic carbon (SOC), and PAO. Meanwhile, pH and SOC content were significantly (P < 0.05) higher in the T2—treated soil than those in the T1 (traditional irrigation and fertilization)- treated soil. In addition, these two edaphic factors further influenced the AOA community composition. The AOA phylum Crenarchaeota was mainly found in the T2—treated soils. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that most of the identified OTUs of AOA were mainly affiliated with Crenarchaeota. Furthermore, the T2 treatment had higher rice yield than the T0 and T1 treatments. Together, our findings confirm that T2 might ameliorate soil chemical properties, regulate the AOA community structure, increase the AOA abundance, enhance PAO and consequently maintain rice yields in the present study.

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Synthesis and Guest-Binding Properties of pH/Reduction Dual-Responsive Cyclophane Dimer

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26113097 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (11) ◽

pp. 3097

Author(s):

Osamu Hayashida ◽

Yudai Tanaka ◽

Takaaki Miyazaki

Keyword(s):

Electrostatic Interaction ◽

Disulfide Bonds ◽

Water Soluble ◽

Guest Molecules ◽

Binding Behavior ◽

Dual Responsive ◽

Guest Binding ◽

Basic Solutions ◽

Ph Conditions ◽

Almost All

A water-soluble cyclophane dimer having two disulfide groups as a reduction-responsive cleavable bond as well as several acidic and basic functional groups as a pH-responsive ionizable group 1 was successfully synthesized. It was found that 1 showed pH-dependent guest-binding behavior. That is, 1 strongly bound an anionic guest, 6-p-toluidinonaphthalene-2-sulfonate (TNS) with binding constant (K/M−1) for 1:1 host-guest complexes of 9.6 × 104 M−1 at pH 3.8, which was larger than those at pH 7.4 and 10.7 (6.0 × 104 and 2.4 × 104 M−1, respectively), indicating a favorable electrostatic interaction between anionic guest and net cationic 1. What is more, release of the entrapped guest molecules by 1 was easily controlled by pH stimulus. Large favorable enthalpies (ΔH) for formation of host-guest complexes were obtained under the pH conditions employed, suggesting that electrostatic interaction between anionic TNS and 1 was the most important driving force for host-guest complexation. Such contributions of ΔH for formation of host-guest complexes decreased along with increased pH values from acidic to basic solutions. Upon addition of dithiothreitol (DTT) as a reducing reagent to an aqueous PBS buffer (pH 7.4) containing 1 and TNS, the fluorescence intensity originating from the bound guest molecules decreased gradually. A treatment of 1 with DTT gave 2, having less guest-binding affinity by the cleavage of disulfide bonds of 1. Consequently, almost all entrapped guest molecules by 1 were released from the host. Moreover, such reduction-responsive cleavage of 1 and release of bound guest molecules was performed more rapidly in aqueous buffer at pH 10.7.

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USE OF SCALED SEMIVARIOGRAMS IN THE PLANNING SAMPLE OF SOIL CHEMICAL PROPERTIES IN SOUTHERN AMAZONAS, BRAZIL

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo ◽

10.1590/01000683rbcs20150525 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 31-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Ivanildo Amorim de Oliveira ◽

Milton César Costa Campos ◽

José Marques Junior ◽

Renato Eleotério de Aquino ◽

Daniel de Bortoli Teixeira ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Chemical Properties ◽

Spherical Model ◽

Exponential Model ◽

Soil Samples ◽

Soil Chemical Properties ◽

Sampling Density ◽

Sugarcane Crop ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

Set Up ◽

Almost All

The lack of information concerning the variability of soil properties has been a major concern of researchers in the Amazon region. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the spatial variability of soil chemical properties and determine minimal sampling density to characterize the variability of these properties in five environments located in the south of the State of Amazonas, Brazil. The five environments were archaeological dark earth (ADE), forest, pasture land, agroforestry operation, and sugarcane crop. Regular 70 × 70 m mesh grids were set up in these areas, with 64 sample points spaced at 10 m distance. Soil samples were collected at the 0.0-0.1 m depth. The chemical properties of pH in water, OM, P, K, Ca, Mg, H+Al, SB, CEC, and V were determined at these points. Data were analyzed by descriptive and geostatistical analyses. A large part of the data analyzed showed spatial dependence. Chemical properties were best fitted to the spherical model in almost all the environments evaluated, except for the sugarcane field with a better fit to the exponential model. ADE and sugarcane areas had greater heterogeneity of soil chemical properties, showing a greater range and higher sampling density; however, forest and agroforestry areas had less variability of chemical properties.

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On eccentricity-based topological descriptors of water-soluble dendrimers

Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C ◽

10.1515/znc-2018-0123 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 74 (1-2) ◽

pp. 25-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Zahid Iqbal ◽

Muhammad Ishaq ◽

Adnan Aslam ◽

Wei Gao

Keyword(s):

Molecular Structure ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Topological Indices ◽

Water Soluble ◽

Connectivity Index ◽

Topological Descriptors ◽

Physical And Chemical Properties ◽

Eccentric Connectivity Index ◽

Physical And Chemical ◽

And Chemical Properties

AbstractPrevious studies show that certain physical and chemical properties of chemical compounds are closely related with their molecular structure. As a theoretical basis, it provides a new way of thinking by analyzing the molecular structure of the compounds to understand their physical and chemical properties. The molecular topological indices are numerical invariants of a molecular graph and are useful to predict their bioactivity. Among these topological indices, the eccentric-connectivity index has a prominent place, because of its high degree of predictability of pharmaceutical properties. In this article, we compute the closed formulae of eccentric-connectivity–based indices and its corresponding polynomial for water-soluble perylenediimides-cored polyglycerol dendrimers. Furthermore, the edge version of eccentric-connectivity index for a new class of dendrimers is determined. The conclusions we obtained in this article illustrate the promising application prospects in the field of bioinformatics and nanomaterial engineering.

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Chemical characterization of fine particular matter in Changzhou, China and source apportionment with offline aerosol mass spectrometry

10.5194/acp-2016-883 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Zhaolian Ye ◽

Jiashu Liu ◽

Aijun Gu ◽

Feifei Feng ◽

Yuhai Liu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Trace Elements ◽

Organic Matter ◽

Organic Carbon ◽

Source Apportionment ◽

Major Ions ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Chemical Characterization ◽

Water Soluble ◽

Traffic Emissions ◽

Aerosol Mass

Abstract. Knowledge on aerosol chemistry in densely populated regions is critical for reduction of air pollution, while such studies haven't been conducted in Changzhou, an important manufacturing base and polluted city in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China. This work, for the first time, performed a thorough chemical characterization on the fine particular matter (PM2.5) samples, collected during July 2015 to April 2016 across four seasons in Changzhou city. A suite of analytical techniques were employed to characterize organic carbon / elemental carbon (OC / EC), water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC), water-soluble inorganic ions (WSIIs), trace elements, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in PM2.5; in particular, an Aerodyne soot particle aerosol mass spectrometer (SP-AMS) was deployed to probe the chemical properties of water-soluble organic aerosols (WSOA). The average PM2.5 concentrations were found to be 108.3 μg m−3, and all identified species were able to reconstruct ~ 80 % of the PM2.5 mass. The WSIIs occupied about half of the PM2.5 mass (~ 52.1 %), with SO42−, NO3− and NH4+ as the major ions. On average, nitrate concentrations dominated over sulfate (mass ratio of 1.21), indicating influences from traffic emissions. OC and EC correlated well with each other and the highest OC / EC ratio (5.16) occurred in winter, suggesting complex OC sources likely including both secondarily formed and primarily emitted OA. Concentrations of eight trace elements (Mn, Zn, Al, B, Cr, Cu, Fe, Pb) can contribute up to 6.0 % of PM2.5 during winter. PAHs concentrations were also high in winter (140.25 ng m−3), which were predominated by median/high molecular weight PAHs with 5- and 6-rings. The organic matter including both water-soluble and water-insoluble species occupied ~ 20 % PM2.5 mass. SP-AMS determined that the WSOA had an average atomic oxygen-to-carbon (O / C), hydrogen-to-carbon (H / C), nitrogen-to-carbon (N / C) and organic matter-to-organic carbon (OM / OC) ratios of 0.36, 1.54, 0.11, and 1.74, respectively. Source apportionment of WSOA further identified two secondary OA (SOA) factors (a less oxidized and a more oxidized OA) and two primary OA (POA) factors (a nitrogen enriched hydrocarbon-like traffic OA and a cooking-related OA). On average, the POA contribution overweighed SOA (55 % vs. 45 %), indicating the important role of local anthropogenic emissions to the aerosol pollution in Changzhou. Our measurement also shows the abundance of organic nitrogen species in WSOA, and the source analyses suggest these species likely associated with traffic emissions, which warrants more investigations on PM samples from other locations.

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High concentrations of coarse particles emitted from a cattle feeding operation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ◽

10.5194/acp-11-8809-2011 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 11 (16) ◽

pp. 8809-8823 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

N. Hiranuma ◽

S. D. Brooks ◽

J. Gramann ◽

B. W. Auvermann

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Particulate Matter ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Field Measurements ◽

The United States ◽

Water Soluble ◽

Size Distributions ◽

Cattle Feeding ◽

High Concentrations ◽

Organic Particles

Abstract. Housing roughly 10 million head of cattle in the United States alone, open air cattle feedlots represent a significant but poorly constrained source of atmospheric particles. Here we present a comprehensive characterization of physical and chemical properties of particles emitted from a large representative cattle feedlot in the Southwest United States. In the summer of 2008, measurements and samplings were conducted at the upwind and downwind edges of the facility. A series of far-field measurements and samplings was also conducted 3.5 km north of the facility. Two instruments, a GRIMM Sequential Mobility Particle Sizer (SMPS) and a GRIMM Portable Aerosol Spectrometer (PAS), were used to measure particle size distributions over the range of 0.01 to 25 μm diameter. Raman microspectroscopy was used to determine the chemical composition of particles on a single particle basis. Volume size distributions of dust were dominated by coarse mode particles. Twenty-four hour averaged concentrations of PM10 (particulate matter with a diameter of 10 μm or less) were as high as 1200 μg m−3 during the campaign. The primary constituents of the particulate matter were carbonaceous materials, such as humic acid, water soluble organics, and less soluble fatty acids, including stearic acid and tristearin. A significant fraction of the organic particles was present in internal mixtures with salts. Basic characteristics such as size distribution and composition of agricultural aerosols were found to be different than the properties of those found in urban and semi-urban aerosols. Failing to account for such differences may lead to errors in estimates of aerosol effects on local air quality, visibility, and public health.

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