A Concentrate, Water-Miscible

Heat the mixture of items 1 to 3 to about 65°C stir well. 

Add very slowly the warm solution of items 4 and 5 (65°C). Clear, yellow liquid, miscible with water, is formed. 

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Dissolve the bis-NHS-PEG compound in a dry, water-miscible organic solvent to make a concentrated stock solution. To prepare a lOmM solution of the bis-NHS-PEG9 reagent, dissolve 7mg/ml of DMAC for the bis-NHS-PEG5 reagent dissolve 5.3mg/ml of DMAC. 

Immunoassay techniques rely upon synthetic antibodies that have been developed to form a complex with petroleum substances. The antibodies in the test kit are immobilised on the walls of a special cell or membrane. Water samples can be added directly, whereas soils are solvent extracted into a suitable water miscible solvent and added to the cell. A known amount of enzyme with an affinity for the antibody is added. After equilibrium is established, the cell is washed to remove any unreacted material. Colour development reagents which react with the enzyme are added. A solution that stops colour development is also added at a specific time, and the optical density is then measured. Samples showing high optical density (colour intensity) contain low concentrations of analytes. Concentration is inversely proportional to optical density. Kits are generally available for, among others, TPH, BTEX and PAH. A correction factor supplied by the manufacturer is used to calculate TPH and this is subject to variation depending on the product type. These tests do not provide information on product type and have limitations dependent upon soil type and homogeneity. Also, field extraction techniques are not as efficient as laboratory-based extraction techniques. 

In some cases, a nonaqueous solvent is required because the ligand is not water soluble. Often it suffices to dissolve the ligand in a water-miscible solvent and then to add this solution to a concentrated water solution of the metal ion. Metal complexes of bipy and phen are generally prepared by this way. Thus the addition of an alcoholic solution of bipy to an aqueous solution of FeCh readily yields the complex [Fe(bipy)3]Cl2, reaction (10). 

The conditions required to favor esterification can be obtained in different manners. It is possible to add a water-miscible solvent that will lower the water concentration and increase the solubility of organic substrates and products. It is also possible to work in a two-phase system with a non-water-miscible solvent, which will serve as a reservoir for the substrates and products. This can be achieved either with macroscopic phases or with highly dispersed systems such as reversed micelles. In the above-mentioned cases, the enzyme-catalyzed reaction takes place in the aqueous phase or at the phase interface. The enzyme can be dissolved in this phase or immobilized by covalent attachment to a solid carrier... 

Lead borate moaohydrate [14720-53-7] (lead metaborate), Pb(B02)2 H20, mol wt 310.82, d = 5.6g/cm (anhydrous) is a white crystalline powder. The metaborate loses water of crystallization at 160°C and melts at 500°C. It is iasoluble ia water and alkaHes, but readily soluble ia nitric and hot acetic acid. Lead metaborate may be produced by a fusion of boric acid with lead carbonate or litharge. It also may be formed as a precipitate when a concentrated solution of lead nitrate is mixed with an excess of borax. The oxides of lead and boron are miscible and form clear lead-borate glasses in the range of 21 to 73 mol % PbO. 

Some solids are either too soluble, or the solubility does not vary sufficiently with temperature, in a given solvent for direct crystallisation to be practicable. In many cases, the solid can be precipitated from, say, a concentrated aqueous solution by the addition of a liquid, miscible with water, in which it is less soluble. Ethanol, in which many inorganic compounds are almost insoluble, is generally used. Care must be taken that the amount of ethanol or other solvent added is not so large that the impurities are also precipitated. Potassium hydrogencarbonate and antimony potassium tartrate may be purified by this method. 

Reaction media play an important role in m-crcsol-paraformaldehyde reactions.22 Higher molecular weight resins, especially those formed from near-equi-molar m -cresol - formaldehyde ratios, can be obtained by introducing a water miscible solvent such as ethanol, methanol, or dioxane to the reaction. Small amounts of solvent (0.5 mol solvent/mol cresol) increased reaction rates by reducing the viscosity and improving homogeneity. Further increases in solvent, however, diluted the reagent concentrations to an extent that decreased the rates of reaction. 

For pesticide residue immunoassays, matrices may include surface or groundwater, soil, sediment and plant or animal tissue or fluids. Aqueous samples may not require preparation prior to analysis, other than concentration. For other matrices, extractions or other cleanup steps are needed and these steps require the integration of the extracting solvent with the immunoassay. When solvent extraction is required, solvent effects on the assay are determined during assay optimization. Another option is to extract in the desired solvent, then conduct a solvent exchange into a more miscible solvent. Immunoassays perform best with water-miscible solvents when solvent concentrations are below 20%. Our experience has been that nearly every matrix requires a complete validation. Various soil types and even urine samples from different animals within a species may cause enough variation that validation in only a few samples is not sufficient. 

The testing techniques used with mosquito larvae, usually the addition of calculated quantities of the larvicide previously dissolved in a water-miscible solvent, are somewhat more comparable. However, the results here are conflicting. The A. qvxjdnmaculatus larvae are killed within 24 hours by either DDT or DFDT at concentrations somewhat... 

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