Bathophenanthroline disulphonic

Ten Brink et al. (2000) have shown how biphasic systems, sometimes with the sparingly soluble alcohols as one phase and an aqueous phase as the other phase, benefit from the strategy for air oxidation to aldehydes/ketones by using water soluble Pd complex of bathophenanthroline disulphonate. This is a nice example of green technology. 

BPS tris(bathophenanthroline-disulphonate) PDTA propylenediamine-tetraacetate... 

The production of hydroxyl radicals by tetra-chlorohydroquinone, a major metabolite of the widely used biocide pentachlorophenol in the presence of H2O2 was markedly inhibited by hydroxyl radical scavenging agents dimethyl sidphoxide and ethanol, as well as by tetrachlorohydroquinone radical scavengers desferrioxamine and other hy-droxamic acids (Zhu et al. 2000). In contrast, their production was not affected by the nonhydroxym-ate iron chelators, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid, bathophenanthroline disulphonic acid, and phytic acid, as well as the copper-specific chelator bathocuprione disulphonic acid. 

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