Fischer medium

Fischers medium is required for the stem cell suicide assay (see Subheading 3.3.) and is made by mixing the following 437.5 mL Sterile ultra-pure... 

Take the femurs to the tissue culture area, wipe them again with 70% alcohol, and place them in a sterile Petri dish containing 5 mL of Fischers medium with 20% DHS. 

Studies were performed on suspension cultures of selected L5178Y lymphoblasts, incubated "in vitro" (2 x 10 cells/ml) for 1 hour in Fischer medium at 372C and in the presence of increasing concentrations of guanosine (1 /iiM-1 mM) labelled with radioactive (8- H)guanosine at 5 jLiCi/ml. 

The Fischer cyclization has proved to be a very versatile reaction which can tolerate a variety of substituents at the 2- and 3-positions and on the aromatic ring. An extensive review and compilation of examples was published several years ago[3]. From a practical point of view, the crucial reaction parameter is often the choice of the appropriate reaction medium. For hydrazones of unsymmetrical ketones, which can lead to two regioisomeric products, the choice of reaction conditions may determine the product composition. 

Anomalous Fischer cyclizations are observed with certain c-substituted aryl-hydrazones, especially 2-alkoxy derivatives[l]. The products which are formed can generally be accounted for by an intermediate which w ould be formed by (ip50-substitution during the sigmatropic rearrangement step. Nucleophiles from the reaction medium, e.g. Cl or the solvent, are introduced at the 5-and/or 6-position of the indole ring. Even carbon nucleophiles, e.g. ethyl acetoacelate, can be incorporated if added to the reaction solution[2]. The use of 2-tosyloxy or 2-trifluoromethanesulfonyloxy derivatives has been found to avoid this complication and has proved useful in the preparation of 7-oxygen-ated indoles[3]. 

A number of chemical products are derived from Sasol s synthetic fuel operations based on the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis including paraffin waxes from the Arge process and several polar and nonpolar hydrocarbon mixtures from the Synthol process. Products suitable for use as hot melt adhesives, PVC lubricants, cormgated cardboard coating emulsions, and poHshes have been developed from Arge waxes. Wax blends containing medium and hard wax fractions are useful for making candles, and over 20,000 t/yr of wax are sold for this appHcation. 

K. Fischer, Comparison of I. G. Work on Eischer Synthesis, Technical OilMission Repod, Reel 13, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 1941. H. Pichler, Medium Pressure Synthesis on Iron Catalyst, (Pat. Appl), Technical OilMission Report, Reel 100, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1937-1943. 

Medium Pressure Synthesis. Pressures of 500—2000 kPa (5—20 atm) were typical for the medium pressure Fischer-Tropsch process. Cobalt catalysts similar to those used for the normal pressure synthesis were typically used at temperatures ranging from 170 to 200°C ia tubular "heat exchanger" type reactors. 

Development of SASOL. Over 70% of South Africa s needs for transportation fuels are being suppHed by iadirect Hquefaction of coal. The medium pressure Fischer-Tropsch process was put iato operation at Sasolburgh, South Africa ia 1955 (47). An overall flow schematic for SASOL I is shown ia Figure 12. The product slate from this faciUty is amazingly complex. Materials ranging from hydrocarbons through oxygenates, alcohols, and acids are all produced. 

During the late seventies and early eighties, when oil prices rose after the 1973 war, extensive research was done to change coal to liquid hydrocarbons. However, coal-derived hydrocarbons were more expensive than crude oils. Another way to use coal is through gasification to a fuel gas mixture of CO and H2 (medium Btu gas). This gas mixture could be used as a fuel or as a synthesis gas mixture for the production of fuels and chemicals via a Fischer Tropsch synthesis route. This process is... 

Epoxides such as ethylene oxide and higher olefin oxides may be produced by the catalytic oxidation of olefins in gas-liquid-particle operations of the slurry type (S7). The finely divided catalyst (for example, silver oxide on silica gel carrier) is suspended in a chemically inactive liquid, such as dibutyl-phthalate. The liquid functions as a heat sink and a heat-transfer medium, as in the three-phase Fischer-Tropsch processes. It is claimed that the process, because of the superior heat-transfer properties of the slurry reactor, may be operated at high olefin concentrations in the gaseous process stream without loss with respect to yield and selectivity, and that propylene oxide and higher... 

In almost all theoretical studies of AGf , it is postulated or tacitly understood that when an ion is transferred across the 0/W interface, it strips off solvated molecules completely, and hence the crystal ionic radius is usually employed for the calculation of AGfr°. Although Abraham and Liszi [17], in considering the transfer between mutually saturated solvents, were aware of the effects of hydration of ions in organic solvents in which water is quite soluble (e.g., 1-octanol, 1-pentanol, and methylisobutyl ketone), they concluded that in solvents such as NB andl,2-DCE, the solubility of water is rather small and most ions in the water-saturated solvent exist as unhydrated entities. However, even a water-immiscible organic solvent such as NB dissolves a considerable amount of water (e.g., ca. 170mM H2O in NB). In such a medium, hydrophilic ions such as Li, Na, Ca, Ba, CH, and Br are selectively solvated by water. This phenomenon has become apparent since at least 1968 by solvent extraction studies with the Karl-Fischer method [35 5]. Rais et al. [35] and Iwachido and coworkers [36-39] determined hydration numbers, i.e., the number of coextracted water molecules, for alkali and alkaline earth metal... 

Another way to increase the entry of Ca2+ across the plasma membrane is to hyperpolarize the plasma membrane by elevating active ion transport. Fischer et al. [130] demonstrated that hyperpolarization of colonic epithelial cells (HT-29) with carbachol elevates the intracellular levels of Ca2+, [Ca2+]i while depolarization with gramicidin D or elevation of K+ in the bathing fluid reverses it. Treatment with 0.1 mM carbachol produced a spontaneous increase in [Ca2+]i from 63 nM to 901 nM. This lasted for about 3 min, beyond which a plateau level of 309 nM was maintained. While the initial Ca2+ transient was present in Ca2+-free medium containing 0.1 mM EGTA, the plateau phase was suppressed to baseline levels, suggesting that carbachol initially releases Ca2+ from the intracellular stores and subsequently increases the Ca2+ entry across the plasma membrane. In cells hyperpolarized with carbachol, induction of depolarization by ele-... 

The biscarbamate 5a and carbamate 3a were dissolved in acetonitrile (Fischer - ACS grade) and photolyzed with a 200-Watt medium pressure, Hanovla lamp in a typical preparative photolysis apparatus with pyrex sleeve. Integrated proton NMR data for the resultant solutions were made on a Jeol 4H-100 NMR. 

One of the most important, and perhaps the best studied, applications of three-phase fluidization is for the hydrogenation of carbon monoxide by the Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) process in the liquid phase. In this process, synthesis gas of relatively low hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio (0.6 0.7) is bubbled through a slurry of precipitated catalyst suspended in a heavy oil medium. The F-T synthesis forms saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds ranging from methane to high-melting paraffin waxes (MW > 20,000) via the following two-step reaction ... 

In the first example of water as the reaction medium for Fischer indole synthesis, 2,3-dimethylindole was obtained in 67% yield from phenylhydrazine and butan-2-one, at 220 °C for 30 min (Scheme 2.15). Neither a preformed hydrazone nor addition of acid was required [33]. 

The first commercial Fischer-Tropsch facility was commissioned in 1935, and by the end of the Second World War a total of fourteen plants had been constructed. Of these, nine were in Germany, one in France, three in Japan, and one in China. Both German normal-pressure and medium-pressure processes (Table 18.1) were employed. The cobalt-based low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch (Co-LTFT) syncrude produced in these two processes differed slightly (Table 18.2), with the product from the medium-pressure process being heavier and less olefinic.11 In addition to the hydrocarbon product, the syncrude also contained oxygenates, mostly alcohols and carboxylic acids. 

The two important discoveries in the search for iron-based Fischer-Tropsch catalysts were (a) the finding that the addition of alkali yielded significant improvements in the activity and selectivity (to liquid products) of iron catalysts (15), and (b) the development of the medium-pressure synthesis (16). In 1943 a pilot plant was constructed at Schwarz-Leide in Germany for the comparative testing of iron-based catalysts. However, the outcome of World War II curtailed its activities. After 1945 many of the plants were destroyed and, for those remaining, recommencement of operation was forbidden for several years. Of the three plants restarted, the last at Bergkamen was closed in 1962. 

Use of molten salts as solvent allows easy separation of organic products by distillation (376), and in this way PtCl2 with tetraalkylammonium salts of SnCl3 and GeCl3 has been used to selectively hydrogenate 1,5,9-cyclododecatriene to cyclododecene the salts in this case act as both solvent and ligand (377). A molten salt medium has been used in a homogeneously catalyzed Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (see Section VI,B). 

Vacuum chamber with tempered shelves 2, container with probe 3, lift for shelves 4, condenser 5, lockgate 6, balance in the lock 7, vacuum pump for the lock 8, glove box 9, Karl-Fischer measuring system 10, pressure controlled vacuum pump 11, manipulator 12, tempered medium (Fig. 1 from [3.30]). 

A number of syntheses of pioglitazone have been disclosed (Arita and Mizuno, 1992 Fischer et al., 2005 Les et al., 2004 Meguro and Fujita, 1986, 1987 Momose et al., 1991 Prous and Castaner, 1990 Saito et al., 1998). Two related syntheses (Fischer et al., 2005 Les et al., 2004) of pioglitazone hydrochloride are described in Scheme 8.2. The tosylate of 2-(5-ethylpyridin-2-yl)ethanol (16), formed in situ with tosyl chloride, was displaced by 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde (17) by means of benzyltributylammonium chloride and NaOH to give 4-[2-(5-ethylpyridin-2-yl)ethoxy]benzaldehyde (20). Condensation of 20 with thiazolidine-2,4-dione in basic medium afforded 5-[-4-[2-(5-ethylpyridin-2-yl)ethoxy]benzylidene]thiazolidine-2,4-dione (21). Finally, this compound was hydrogenated to provide pioglitazone (2). Alternatively, a nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction... 

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