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Membrane Bioreactors for wastewater reuse: Respirometric assessment of biomass activity during a two year survey
2018
Abstract Stricter effluent limits, water shortage conditions, land availability requires today even more the needs of advanced wastewater treatments. Attractive solutions come from membrane bioreactors (MBR), Integrated Fixed Film Activated Sludge (IFAS) or combinations (i.e., IFAS-MBRs). One crucial aspect for the applicability of this overall new technology, compared to the conventional activated sludge systems, is the lack of knowledge for design and manage (e.g., kinetic constants, optimal operative conditions etc.). In view of the above frame, the aim of the present study was to assess the kinetic and stoichiometric parameters of bacterial species in MBRs by means of respirometric tech…
In-depth structural analysis of lanthanoid coordination networks based on a flexible tripodal zwitterionic isonicotinate ligand
2019
Crystallizing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) has been studied using a tripodal pyridinecarboxylic acid derivative ligand and selected lanthanoid salts. The zwitterionic ligand, 1,1′,1′′-((2,4,6-trimethylbenzene-1,3,5-triyl)tris(methylene))tris(pyridin-1-ium-4-carboxylate) (TTTPC) introduced as a bromide salt, forms coordination networks in aqueous environments and under ambient conditions with neodymium bromide, trifluoromethanesulfonate (OTf) or acetate (OAc). Seven structures are elucidated in detail using single crystal X-ray crystallography. TTTPC NdBr3, TTTPC NdBr2OTf, TTTPC NdBr(OTf)2 and TTTPC Nd(OTf)3 are porous 3D networks with similar ligand–metal and ligand–anion interactions, b…
Lanthanide bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amides vs. trifluoromethylsulfonates as catalysts for Friedel–Crafts acylations
2002
Abstract The use of catalytic amounts: 1 mol% or less of perfluoroalkyl lanthanide salts as homogeneous catalysts for Friedel–Crafts acylations in non-hazardous solvents is thereafter investigated. Lanthanide bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amides are better catalysts than the triflate analogues towards the acetylation of activated aromatic rings.
A SIM-MOF: Three-Dimensional Organisation of Single-Ion Magnets with Anion-Exchange Capabilities
2014
The formation of a metal-organic framework (MOF) with nodes that have single-molecule magnet (SMM) behaviour has been achieved by using mononuclear lanthanoid analogues, also known as single-ion magnets (SIMs), which enormously simplifies the challenging issue of making SMM-MOFs. Here we present a rational design of a family of MOFs, [Ln(bipyNO)4](TfO)3⋅x solvent (Ln=Tb (1); Dy (2); Ho (3); Er (4); TfO=triflate), in which the lanthanoid centres have an square-antiprismatic coordination environment suitable for SIM behaviour. Magnetic measurements confirm the existence of slow magnetic relaxation typical of SMMs, which has been rationalised by means of a radial effective charge model. In add…
Hydrogen bond-mediated conjugates involving lanthanide diphthalocyanines and trifluoroacetic acid (Lnpc2@TFA): Structure, photoactivity, and stability
2020
The interaction between lanthanide diphthalocyanine complexes, LnPc2 (Ln = Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Yb, Lu
Effect of the remaining lanthanide catalysts on the hydrolytic and enzymatic degradation of poly-(ε-caprolactone)
2003
Poly-(e-caprolactone) is a biodegradable polymer, which can be used for both medical and environmental applications. Due to its multiple applications the synthesis of such a polymer has been attracting an increasing attention in the past few decades. In our work, the polymers were synthesised by bulk polymerisation, using different lanthanide halides as initiators. The lanthanide derivatives are known as very active catalysts in the ring-opening polymerisation of cyclic esters. Moreover, they are not toxic in comparison of catalysts, which are usually used for this synthesis. In this paper, the influence of the lanthanides on both the hydrolytic and enzymatic degradation of the PCL obtained…
Coordination of expanded terpyridine ligands to cobalt
2013
Abstract The tridentate expanded terpyridine-like ligand N,N′-dimethyl-N,N′-dipyridin-2-yl-pyridin-2,6-diamine (ddpd) and [Co(H2O)6](BF4)2 give the high-spin complex mer-[Co(ddpd)2](BF4)2 with a tetragonally compressed CoN6 coordination geometry according to X-ray diffraction and SQUID measurements. UV–Vis–NIR spectra indicate a large ligand field splitting close to the high-spin/low-spin crossover point. Oxidation of the CoII complex to CoIII is achieved with silver triflate. The self exchange between high-spin CoII and low-spin CoIII is slow on the NMR time scale.
C,N-chelated organotin(IV) trifluoromethanesulfonates: Synthesis, characterization and preliminary studies of its catalytic activity in the direct sy…
2012
Abstract C,N-chelated tri- and diorganotin(IV) halides react with 1 or 2 mol equiv of silver trifluoromethanesulfonate (triflate, AgOTf, OTf = OSO2CF3−) to give corresponding C,N-chelated organotin(IV) triflates. The triorganotin(IV) triflates of general formula LCNR2SnOTf (R = n-Bu (1), Ph (2)) are presumably more stable towards hydrolysis than the diorganotin(IV) triflates LCNRSn(OTf)2 (R = n-Bu (3), Ph (4)). All prepared organotin(IV) triflates bearing the LCN ligand (where LCN is 2-(N,N-dimethylaminomethyl)phenyl-) were characterized by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. In addition, the structure of 3 was determined by the X-ray diffraction analysis. The catalytic ac…
Calcium-Dependent Assembly of Centrin-G-Protein Complex in Photoreceptor Cells
2002
Photoexcitation of rhodopsin activates a heterotrimeric G-protein cascade leading to cyclic GMP hydrolysis in vertebrate photoreceptors. Light-induced exchanges of the visual G-protein transducin between the outer and inner segment of rod photoreceptors occur through the narrow connecting cilium. Here we demonstrate that transducin colocalizes with the Ca(2+)-binding protein centrin 1 in a specific domain of this cilium. Coimmunoprecipitation, centrifugation, centrin overlay, size exclusion chromatography, and kinetic light-scattering experiments indicate that Ca(2+)-activated centrin 1 binds with high affinity and specificity to transducin. The assembly of centrin-G-protein complex is medi…
Adaptive suppression of the ATF4–CHOP branch of the unfolded protein response by toll-like receptor signalling
2009
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) unfolded protein response (UPR) restores equilibrium to the ER, but prolonged expression of the UPR effector CHOP (GADD153) is cytotoxic. We found that CHOP expression induced by ER stress was suppressed by prior engagement of toll-like receptor (TLR) 3 or 4 through a TRIF-dependent pathway. TLR engagement did not suppress phosphorylation of PERK or eIF-2alpha, which are upstream of CHOP, but phospho-eIF-2alpha failed to promote translation of the CHOP activator ATF4. In mice subjected to systemic ER stress, pretreatment with low dose lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a TLR4 ligand, suppressed CHOP expression and apoptosis in splenic macrophages, renal tubule cells an…