Lack of selectivity

Development of extraction-free photometric procedures for the determination of traces of metals for which hygienic and environmental regulations have been established is an urgent problem. For solution of this problem we used as an organic reagent l-(2- pyridylazo)-naphtol-2 (PAN) which forms intensely coloured complex compounds with many metals and is frequently used for their extraction-photometric determination however these procedures did not find wide application in water analysis due to lack of selectivity and necessity of using organic solvents. 

Aquatic organisms, such as fish and invertebrates, can excrete compounds via passive diffusion across membranes into the surrounding medium and so have a much reduced need for specialised pathways for steroid excretion. It may be that this lack of selective pressure, together with prey-predator co-evolution, has resulted in restricted biotransformation ability within these animals and their associated predators. The resultant limitations in metabolic and excretory competence makes it more likely that they will bioacciimiilate EDs, and hence they may be at greater risk of adverse effects following exposure to such chemicals. 

Aminooglutethimide was the fust aromatase inhibitor to be used in patients with metastatic breast cancer, where response rates of up to 30% have been reported. Unfortunately, due to its lack of selectivity for aromatase, it induced a medical adrenelectomy that resulted in suppression of aldosterone and cortisol. With the development of more selective aromatase... 

One possible reason for the reluctance of non-electrochemists to venture into this field is that in contrast to the electrochemists claim that controlled potential electrolysis offers a method for the selective introduction of energy into molecules, many electrode reactions carried out at a controlled potential have still been reported to give low yields and a diversity of products. The electrode potential is, however, only one of several variables and the lack of selectivity in the electrode process may be attributed to a failure to understand and to control all the parameters of the overall electrode reaction. 

Given this behavior (little selectivity in distinguishing between different substrate molecules), the selectivity relationship would predict that positional selectivity should also be very small. However, it is not. For example, under conditions where nitration of p-xylene and 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene takes place at about equal rates, there was no corresponding lack of selectivity at positions within the latter. Though... 

Selectivity and Interference Selectivity means that only that species is measured which the analyst is looking for. A corollary is the absence of chemical interferents. A lack of selectivity is often the cause of nonlinearity of the calibration curve. Near infra-red spectroscopy is a technology that exemplifies how seemingly trivial details of the experimental set-up can frustrate an investigator s best intentions Ref. 124 discusses some factors that influence the result. 

Because of their lack of selectivity and their irreversible inhibition of MAO, the first MAOIs to be developed presented a high risk of adverse interactions with dietary tyramine (see Chapter 20). However, more recently, drugs which are selective for and, more importantly, reversible inhibitors of MAO-A (RIMAs) have been developed (e.g. moclobemide). These drugs are proving to be highly effective antidepressants which avoid the need for a tyramine-free diet. 

As far as can be certain, given the lack of selective ligands, their aetivation elsewhere in the brain is thought to culminate in reduced locomotor activity and hyperthermia. However, interest in these reeeptors as possible therapeutie targets is fostered by evidence that their agonists, sueh as mCPP, appear to be profoundly anxiogenic (see Chapter 19) and reduce food intake (see below). 

The nitration of N,N -diethylurea gives nitrated products which are precursors for a new energetic plasticizer N,N -dialkyl-N,N -dinitrourea (DNDA). For macroscopic batch processing, this reaction is characterized by a lack of selectivity owing to mononitro derivative formation and thermal decomposition of the dinitro product due to increasing temperature during the course of reaction [37, 38]. 

However, there are two problems with these unconjugated lactones lack of selectivity and limited stability of the inhibitor in biological buffers. Coumarin carboxylates have been developed to improve selectivity toward a given serine protease (Section 11.4.1). On the other hand, the amide bond is chemically and enzymatically much more stable than the ester one. This raised the question of whether a starting functionalized lactam behaved like the previous lactones and generated in situ a quinonimine methide, the aza-analogue of the quinone methide (Section 11.5). 

Many workers have tried to omit the mercury film by depositing the analyte directly on inert metals such as Pt, Au, Rh, Ir or Ag or on carbon materials such as glassy carbon or wax-impregnated graphite however, in general this was not successful (lack of selectivity for mixtures as a consequence of interdiffusion) and therefore it is rarely applied except for those nobler analyte metals that cannot be measured at mercury, such as Au, Ag and Hg itself. Nevertheless, metals such as Ni and Cr, which do not amalgamate, can be determined on an HMDE100. 

The discovery of monoclonal antibodies and combining them with polymeric prodrugs is the newest approach to overcome the lack of selectivity for disposition in target tissue (23). Recently the selectivity of antibody-targeted polymeric anthracycline antibiotics to T lymphocytes was accomplished (25). In addition decreased immunogenicity of proteinaceous conjugates with IgG and human transferrin has been reported (26). 

The disadvantages of the general method using supported palladium and hydrogen are a lack of selectivity and overreduction. Where selectivity is not an important requirement, Pd/C is a widely used catalyst for the hydrogenolysis of the C-O bond in benzyl ethers. 

In general, the Henry reaction gives a mixture of diastereomers and enantiomers. The lack of selectivity is due to the reversibility of the reaction and the easy epimerization at the nitro-substituted carbon atom. Existing reviews have hardly mentioned the stereochemistry of the Henry reaction. Recently, Shibasaki has found that the modification of the Henry reaction can control the stereochemistry to give (3-nitro alcohols with high diastereo- and enantio-selectivity.6 In Section 3.3, the progress of the stereoselective Henry reaction and its application to biologically active compounds are discussed. 

Rifaximin is broad-spectrum antibiotic, which covers many skin pathogens, whose lack of transcutaneous absorption has been well documented by both animal [8] and human [9] studies. On these grounds, a topical formulation (i.e. cream) containing 5% of the active compound was developed and tested in the treatment of pyogenic skin infections. Some open trials [20, 21] showed the efficacy and safety of the formulation and pointed out the lack of selection of resistant strains after topical application of rifaximin. In any event, drug delivery from the topical formulation is orders of magnitude higher than the... 

Dipolar cycloaddition of diazomethane to aldehydes can successfully be used for the preparation of tetrahy-drooxadiazole derivatives. Photochemical interconversion of 3-acylamino-l,2,5-oxadiazole derivatives leads to 1,3,4-oxadiazoles, though the method suffers from lack of selectivity. Many reports concentrate only on the synthesis and applications of new 1,3,4-oxadiazoles substituted with a wide variety of groups without introducing much of new chemistry. 

The lack of selectivity can be circumvented by coupling a postcolumn flow system to a liquid chromatograph. This has promoted the development of a number of efficient liquid chromatography-CL approaches [16, 17]. Eluted analytes are mixed with streams of the substrate and oxidant (in the presence or absence of a catalyst or inhibitor) and the mixed stream is driven to a planar coiled flow cell [18] or sandwich membrane cell [19] in an assembly similar to those of flow injection-CL systems. Many of these postcolumn flow systems are based on an energy-transfer CL process [20], In others, the analytes are mixtures of metal ions and the luminol-hydrogen peroxide system is used to generate the luminescence [21],... 

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