Search results for "Anthracene"

Specificity of mouse liver cytosolic epoxide hydrolase for K-region epoxides derived from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

1980

Mouse liver cytosol epoxide hydrolase, known to be very active for certain alkene oxides, had a specific activity which was 2.1-, 11- and 160-fold lower than that of the microsomal epoxide hydrolase for the arene oxides 7-methylbenz[a]anthracene 5,6-oxide, benz[a]anthracene 5,6-oxide and phenanthrene 9,10-oxide, respectively. For benzo[a]pyrene 4,5-oxide no activity (less than 10 pmol product/mg protein/min) of cytoplasmic epoxide hydrolase was detectable. The specific activity of cytoplasmic epoxide hydrolase was much lower for all K-region epoxides investigated, compared to trans-stilbene oxide used as a positive control and for which a new assay is described. It is concluded from these r…

Catalytic oxidation and reduction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) present as mixtures in hydrothermal media

2012

Author's version of an article in the journal: Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10406638.2012.663451 The reactivity of fluorene, anthracene, and fluoranthene under oxidation and reduction conditions were investigated in this study. This project looks at catalytic and green approaches of converting PAHs to less toxic and/or less stable derivatives that are amenable to further degradation. Hydrothermal reactions have been performed at 300°C with pure H2O and Nafion-SiO2 catalyst for oxidation, and pure H2O, HCOOH, Pd-C, and Nafion-SiO2 catalysts for reductive hydrogenation. Time series has been performed for both the oxidation and …

Hard Cap Espresso Machines in Analytical Chemistry: What Else?

2016

A hard cap espresso machine has been used in combination with liquid chromatography with molecular fluorescence detection for the determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from contaminated soils and sediments providing appropriate extraction efficiencies and quantitative results. Naphthalene, acenaphthene, fluorene, phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, pyrene, benz[a]anthracene, chrysene, benz[b]fluoranthene, benz[k]fluoranthene, benz[a]pyrene, dibenz[a,h]anthracene, benz[ghi]perylene, and indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene were used as target compounds. It should be mentioned that the pairs benz[a]anthracene-chrysene and dibenz[a,h]anthracene-benz[ghi]perylene peaks coelute under th…

Confined growth of carbon nanoforms in one-dimension by fusion of anthracene rings inside the pores of MCM-41

2014

We report a simple two-step procedure that uses anthracene, a cheap polyaromatic hydrocarbon with low melting point, as a molecular precursor to produce carbon nanoforms (CNFs). First, we describe the chemical synthesis of graphite from the fusion of anthracene rings at relatively low temperature (520 °C) followed by cyclodehydrogenation. Next, we extend this protocol to the synthesis of CNFs by confining the molecular precursor in a mesoporous host like MCM-41. The confined environment favors one-dimensional growth of CNFs with sizes controlled by the pores of the mesoporous host.

1988

Synthese par alkylation reductrice de l'anthracene par des electrophiles bifonctionnels comme le dibromo-1,3 propane. Le polymere du titre est un precurseur du polymere redox polyanthrylenetrimethylene

Crystal and molecular structure of 2,3,6,7-tetramethoxy-9-trichloromethyl-10-carboxymethyl-9,10-dihydroanthracene

1990

Cl3O6C21H21,Mr=475.75, orthorhombic,P212121,a=21.895(3),b=12.101(2), andc=8.237(2) A,V=2182.4(7) A3,Dx=1.45 g cm−3 forZ=4, λ(MoKα)=0.71069 Aμ=3.99 cm−1,F(000) 984, room temperature,R=0.035 for 1877 observed reflections. The molecule exhibits a folded conformation: the dihedral angle between the benzene rings is 28.3(1)°. The central ring is characterized by acis diaxal configuration of hydrogen atoms in the 9, 10 positions, confirming the 13-C NMR results.

Overexpression of bone morphogenetic protein-6 (BMP-6) in murine epidermis suppresses skin tumor formation by induction of apoptosis and downregulati…

2001

Bone morphogenetic protein-6 (BMP-6) is a member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily. In murine skin, BMP-6 is highly expressed in postmitotic keratinocytes from day 15.5 p.c. till day 6 p.p. Expression in adult skin remains at very low levels, but pathological conditions such as wounding induce the expression of BMP-6. We demonstrate that tumor promotion by TPA (12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate) also induces expression of BMP-6 in suprabasal keratinocytes. This induction is due to post-transcriptional regulation since the level of BMP-6 mRNA remained unchanged. We performed two-stage skin carcinogenesis experiments with transgenic mice epidermally overexpressing BMP-6. T…

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor-dependent deregulation of cell cycle control induced by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in rat liver epithelial cells

2006

Disruption of cell proliferation control by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) may contribute to their carcinogenicity. We investigated role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) in disruption of contact inhibition in rat liver epithelial WB-F344 'stem-like' cells, induced by the weakly mutagenic benz[a]anthracene (BaA), benzo[b]fluoranthene (BbF) and by the strongly mutagenic benzo[a]pyrene (BaP). There were significant differences between the effects of BaA and BbF, and those of the strongly genotoxic BaP. Both BaA and BbF increased percentage of cells entering S-phase and cell numbers, associated with an increased expression of Cyclin A and Cyclin A/cdk2 complex activity. Their eff…

Isomer effects in fragmentation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

2015

We have observed significant differences in the fragmentation patterns of isomeric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) cations following collisions with helium atoms at center-of-mass energies around 100 eV. This is in contrast to the situation at other collision energies or in photo-absorption experiments where isomeric effects are very weak and where the lowest-energy dissociation channels (H- and C2H2-loss) domihate in statistical fragmentation processes. In the 100 eV range, non-statistical fragmentation also competes and is uniquely linked to losses of single carbon atoms (CHx-losses). We find that such CHx-losses are correlated with the ionic ground state energy within a given group…

Novel Alkylanthracenes Synthesis, Reductive Alkylation, and Reductive Polymerization

1988

A series of novel substituted anthracenes has been prepared which carry two or four n-alkyl groups at C-2 and C-3 (C-6 and C-7). The route taken includes the synthesis of novel 2,3-dialkylbutadienes, their Diels-Alder reaction with 1,4-benzo- or 1,4-naphthoquinone, the dehydrogenation of the adducts, and the reduction of the anthraquinones. The substituted anthracenes are submitted to reduction and reductive alkylation in ethereal solvents and in liquid ammonia to yield 9,10-dialkyl-substituted 9,10-dihydroanthracenes. A modification of the reductive alkylation, i.e. the introduction of 1,n-dihaloalkanes as electrophiles, provides polymeric chains, in which dihydroanthracene moieties are li…