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Classification of the anabolic steroids is based on chemical stmctures and associated actions. A review of the biosynthesis and metabolism of the naturally occurring estrogens and androgens is available (1). Names, descriptions, approval dates, and recommended doses of the commercial products are found in References 1, 8, and 9. Although steroids may be orally active, the FDA approved mode of adrninistration is the subcutaneous implant. Effective dose is lower with implant rather than oral adrninistration. 

Xanthan Gum. As a result of a project to transform agriculturally derived products into industrially usefiil products by microbial action, the Northern Regional Research Laboratories of the USDA showed that the bacterium TCanthomonas campestris - noduces a polysaccharide with industrially usefiil properties (77). Extensive research was carried out on this interesting polysaccharide in several industrial laboratories during the eady 1960s, culminating in commercial production in 1964. 

Best Mode. The patent appHcant must disclose the best mode of practicing the invention known to the inventor at the time the appHcation is filed. Concerns over best mode often arise when a patent appHcant seeks patent protection for an invention but, at the same time, desires to keep as a trade secret one aspect of the invention necessary to the production of a commercial product. This action denies the pubHc access to this information and undermines the poHcies of the patent system. This would effectively deprive the pubHc of information on the amount of disclosure made in exchange for the 17-yr patent grant, and hence it invaHdates the patent grant. 

Enzymatic Process. Chemically synthesized substrates can be converted to the corresponding amino acids by the catalytic action of an enzyme or the microbial cells as an enzyme source, t - Alanine production from L-aspartic acid, L-aspartic acid production from fumaric acid, L-cysteine production from DL-2-aminothiazoline-4-catboxyhc acid, D-phenylglycine (and D-/> -hydtoxyphenylglycine) production from DL-phenyUiydantoin (and DL-/)-hydroxyphenylhydantoin), and L-tryptophan production from indole and DL-serine have been in operation as commercial processes. Some of the other processes shown in Table 10 are at a technical level high enough to be useful for commercial production (24). Representative chemical reactions used ia the enzymatic process are shown ia Figure 6. 

The symposium upon which this volume is based was organized at a turning point in nitrosamine research. Almost all types of commercial products have been tested for volatile nitrosamines, and there have been a number of outstanding accomplishments of combined university-gov-emment-private industry actions to lower or eliminate volatile nitrosamines in those products found to be contaminated. However, there is still a major gap of knowledge with regard to compounds that are not amenable to analysis by gas chromatography, and this is clearly a frontier of current research. There are also many important questions regarding chemistry, mechanism of action, and relation to human disease whose answers lie in the future of research in this field. 

The hydrochloric acid is removed by the strong tertiary base, methyldibutylamine, which has a soluble hydrochloride. In B.P. s 631,549 and 652,981 it was shown that compound (II) could be prepared by the action of dimethylamine on P0C13 in chloroform containing an excess of methylbutylamine. The further reaction with water is very conveniently carried out in the same system by adding an excess of aqueous sodium hydroxide solution. The chloroform layer contains the tertiary amine and (I). The solvent and amine are stripped off leaving the product. Side reactions take place, and the commercial product also contains some triphosphoric pentadimethylamide (I A) and smaller amounts of other phosphoric amides. The compound (I A) is itself also a valuable systemic insecticide. 

Simple sublimation is a batch-wise process in which the solid material is vaporised and then diffuses towards a condenser under the action of a driving force attributable to difference in partial pressures at the vaporising and condensing surfaces. The vapour path between the vaporiser and the condenser should be as short as possible in order to reduce mass-transfer resistance. Simple sublimation has been used for centuries, often in very crude equipment, for the commercial production of ammonium chloride, iodine, and flowers of sulphur. 

It is claimed that the cost of hydrogen by this process is exceedingly low consequently, if this is correct and the mechanical difficulties of manufacturing generators to withstand the very high pressures and chemical action are satisfactorily overcome, this process would appear to be one of the highest value for the commercial production of hydrogen. 

At one time, neptunium s entire existence was synthesized by man. Sometime later, in the mid-twentieth century, it was discovered that a very small amount is naturally produced in uranium ore through the actions of neutrons produced by the decay of uranium in the ore pitchblende. Even so, a great deal more neptunium is artificially produced every year than ever did or does exist in nature. Neptunium is recovered as a by-product of the commercial production of plutonium in nuclear reactors. It can also be synthesized by bombarding uranium-238 with neutrons, resulting in the production of neptunium-239, an isotope of neptunium with a half-life of 2.3565 days. 

Both compounds inhibit glutamine synthetase, which is necessary for the production of glutamine and for ammonia detoxification. Plants that are exposed to glufosinate have reduced glutamine and increased ammonia levels in their tissues, which stops photosynthesis and results in death within a few days. Other natural products (e.g. tabtoxine- -lactam, oxetin, and methionine sufoximine) are known to have this mode of action, but they have not been developed as commercial products. 

After the first successful attempts in 1928 to identify the active biochemicals found in antibacterial molds, followed the rediscovery of penicillin by Fleming, identification of its chemical structure by Hodgkin, and subsequent synthesis by Chain, Heatley, and Florey, which led to the commercial production of penicillin in the mid 1940s [1], Since then, other families of (3-lactam antibiotics have been developed [2, 3], and their massive use worldwide continues to be a forefront line of action against infectious pathogens [4-6]. In recent years, (3-lactams have found other biomedical applications, such as inhibitors of serine protease ([7, 8] for a review, see [9]) and inhibitors of acyl-CoA cholesterol acyltransferasa (ACAT) [10]. Encouraged by their bioactivity, the synthesis and chemistry of (3-lactam antibiotics have been the focus of active research, and chemical modification of some basic structures available from biosynthesis (semisynthetic approaches) as well as the discovery of fully chemical routes to de novo synthesis of (3-lactam... 

Dicyandiamide, which is readily obtainable from calcium cyanamide and is a stable commercial product, may be converted into guanidine nitrate by the action of ammonium nitrate, either in concentrated aqueous solution under pressure12,13 or by a fusion reaction.13-16 The latter procedure gives a very pure product and is to be preferred for laboratory practice. Directions for its use are given under procedure A. 

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