Antiradical Activity of Porphyrins with a Diisobornylphenol Fragment at the Macrocycle Periphery.

This article focuses on the antiradical activity of a number of 2,6-diisobornylphenol-porphyrin conjugates with various spacers between the porphyrin and phenolic fragments in the model reaction of ethylbenzene oxidation initiated by azoisobutyric acid dinitrile. The study has shown that the electronic effects of the groups directly related to the 2,6-diisobornylphenol fragment exert the predominant influence both on the reactivity of the phenolic hydroxyl group in interaction with free radicals and on the antiradical activity of the molecule as a whole. The antiradical activity of the molecule is generally less affected by the nature of the substituents in the porphyrin macrocycle, mainly due to a change in the stoichiometric inhibition coefficient in the presence of relatively easily oxidizable groups.

[Amalgam carrier and a vessel for amalgam].

An amalgam carrier designed by the NPO Medinstrument makes it possible to take amalgam from the vessel, carry it to the carious cavity without any losses and to thicken it in the carious cavity and to regulate the amount of the amalgam introduced. The amalgam carrier in the non-operating condition may be dismantled into parts with a purpose of more adequate sterilization and disinfection.