Comment on "Study of enantioselective metolachlor adsorption by activated carbons" by A. Gomis-Berenguer, I. Laidin, S. Rononcial and B. Cagnon, , 2020, , 40321.

A recent study on adsorption of metolachlor on activated carbons carried out by Gomis-Berenguer has reported higher adsorption capacity for pure -metolachlor compared with the adsorption capacity for the racemic mixture of this pesticide. The authors claim that the adsorption is enantioselective, with the activated carbon being more efficient for the adsorption of the enantiomer compared with the enantiomer. In this comment, we question this explanation (since the non-chiral surface of an activated carbon would never be selective towards one enantiomer instead of the other) and we offer some possible answers supported by theoretical calculations.

Adsorption of bentazone and imazapyc from water by using functionalized silica: Experimental and computational analysis.

In this study, silica and functionalized silica materials (3-aminopropyl and 3-mercapto derivatives) were successfully used for the removal of the pesticides bentazone and imazapyc from aqueous solutions. Adsorbent materials were characterized by BET isotherms and FT-IR spectroscopy (confirming the functionalization), and their equilibrium adsorption capacity was evaluated at different ionic strengths. It is observed that the maximum adsorption capacities decrease in the order 3-aminopropyl-derivative > silica >3-mercaptopropyl derivative.

Lidocaine protects neurons of the spinal cord in an excitotoxicity model.

Motor Neuron Disease disorders, described in domestic animals, are characterized by neuronal degeneration at the spinal cord. Excitotoxicity is a crucial factor for the selective loss of these neurons, being the fundamental processes involved in lesion progression after spinal cord injury, where glutamate is one of the main neurotransmitters involved. Kainic acid (KA) resembles the effects induced by the pathological release of glutamate.

Reactive Oxygen Species-mediated Degradation of Antidiabetic Compounds: Cytotoxic Implications of Their Photodegradation Products.

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been described in their double physiological function, helping in the maintenance of health as well as contributing to oxidative stress. Diabetes mellitus is a chronical disease nearly related to oxidative stress, whose treatment (in type II variant) consists in the administration of antidiabetic compounds (Andb) such as Gliclazide (Gli) and Glipizide (Glip). In this context, as Andb may be exposed to high ROS concentrations in diabetic patients, we have studied the potential ROS-mediated degradation of Gli and Glip through photosensitized processes, in the presence of Riboflavin (Rf) vitamin.

Tautomerism of uracil and related compounds: A mass spectrometry study.

It has been demonstrated that uracil has a preponderant tautomeric form, but it is also known that different tautomers co-exist in this equilibrium. In this work, mass spectrometry is used as a helpful tool to analyse the equilibria, using derivative compounds to forbid the presence of some tautomers and ion trap mass spectrometry to follow relevant fragmentation pathways. Theoretical calculations were performed to confirm tautomers abundance by energy minimization in gas phase.

Comment on "Structural and vibrational studies on 1-(5-Methyl- [1,3,4] thiadiazol-2-yl)-pyrolidin-2-ol" [Spectrochimica Acta Part A, 152 (2016) 252-261]. The importance of intramolecular OH⋯N hydrogen bonding in the conformational properties of thiadiazol-pyrrolidin-2-ol bearing species.

The title paper [1] reports a study on the spectroscopic and physicochemical properties of 1-(5-methyl- [1,3,4]thiadiazol-2-yl)-pyrrolidin-2-ol (MTPN) based on experimental and theoretical data. The latter ones are based on the computed molecular structure for a rather unusual conformer. Here, after a careful analysis of the conformational space of MTPN, the most stable conformation was determined for the molecule isolated in a vacuum, which results to be 21.

Determination of heats of tautomerization nitrile-ketenimine by mass spectrometry.

Tautomerism of some nitriles has been studied by mass spectrometry. The analysis of the corresponding mass spectra has allowed to assign some fragmentations to specific tautomers and to determine heats of tautomerization through temperature effects and electron energy studies. Experimental determinations are supported by theoretical calculations.

The evidence for the occurrence of tautomeric structures for selected aldehydes and thioaldehydes.

Mass spectra of selected aldehydes and thioaldehydes have been analyzed and specific fragmentation assignments have been done to keto and enol tautomers, although many peaks can be assigned to both forms (i.e. mass spectra are superimposed on one another).