Ligands agents

Poggi, V, Areioni, A., Filippini, P, Pifferi, P. G. (2000). Foliar applieation of selenite and selenate to potato (Solanum tuberosum). Effect of a ligand agent on selenium eontent of tubers. J. Agric. Food Chem., 48, 4749-4751. 

Destruction of the masking ligand by chemical reaction may be possible, as in the oxidation of EDTA in acid solutions by permanganate or another strong oxidizing agent. Hydrogen peroxide and Cu(II) ion destroy the tartrate complex of aluminum. 

Liquid-liquid extractions using ammonium pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (APDC) as a metal chelating agent are commonly encountered in the analysis of metal ions in aqueous samples. The sample and APDC are mixed together, and the resulting metal-ligand complexes are extracted into methyl isobutyl ketone before analysis. 

Cupferron is a ligand whose strong affinity for metal ions makes it useful as a chelating agent in liquid-liquid extractions. The following distribution ratios are known for the extraction of Hg +, Pb +, and Zn + from aqueous solutions to an organic solvent. 

EDTA Must Compete with Other Ligands To maintain a constant pH, we must add a buffering agent. If one of the buffer s components forms a metal-ligand complex with Cd +, then EDTA must compete with the ligand for Cd +. For example, an NH4+/NH3 buffer includes the ligand NH3, which forms several stable Cd +-NH3 complexes. EDTA forms a stronger complex with Cd + and will displace NH3. The presence of NH3, however, decreases the stability of the Cd +-EDTA complex. 

The H2 Receptor and Its Ligands. The discovery of H2 receptors and antagonists occurred in 1972. This topic, including therapeutic implications, is considered in more detail elsewhere (see GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS). 

Melatonin [73-31-4] C 2H N202 (31) has marked effects on circadian rhythm (11). Novel ligands for melatonin receptors such as (32) (12), C2yH2gN202, have affinities in the range of 10 Af, and have potential use as therapeutic agents in the treatment of the sleep disorders associated with jet lag. Such agents may also be usehil in the treatment of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), the depression associated with the winter months. Histamine (see Histamine and histamine antagonists), adenosine (see Nucleic acids), and neuropeptides such as corticotropin-like intermediate lobe peptide (CLIP) and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) have also been reported to have sedative—hypnotic activities (7). 

Nonbenzodiazepine Benzodiazepine Receptor Ligands. The simultaneous discovery of the molecular target for the BZs, the GABA /BZ receptor complex, by two teams of workers (34,35) resulted ia the identification of a number of atypical or anxioselective anxiolytics that, whereas not having the BZ pharmacophore, interacted direcdy with the central BZ receptor. The anxioselective nature of such agents was considered to be... 

Reaction of free-base porphyrin compounds with iton(II) salts in an appropriate solvent results in loss of the two N—H protons and insertion of iron into the tetradentate porphyrin dianion ligand. Five-coordinate iton(III) porphyrin complexes (hemins), which usually have the anion of the iton(II) salt for the fifth or axial ligand, ate isolated if the reaction is carried out in the presence of air. Iron(II) porphyrin complexes (hemes) can be isolated if the reaction and workup is conducted under rigorously anaerobic conditions. Typically, however, iton(II) complexes are obtained from iton(III) porphyrin complexes by reduction with dithionite, thiolate, borohydtide, chromous ion, or other reducing agents. 

Colorimetric. A sensitive method for the deterrnination of small concentrations of dissolved iron is the spectrophotometric deterrnination of the orange-red tris(1,10-phenanthroline)iron (IT) complex. Other substituted phenanthrolines can be even more sensitive. Only the inon(II) complexes of these Ligands are highly colored. The sample is first treated with an excess of reducing agent. The complexes are stable from pH 2 ndash 9 and analysis preferably is done at about pH 3.5. 

The lanthanides form many compounds with organic ligands. Some of these compounds ate water-soluble, others oil-soluble. Water-soluble compounds have been used extensively for rare-earth separation by ion exchange (qv), for example, complexes form with citric acid, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), and hydroxyethylethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEEDTA) (see Chelating agents). The complex formation is pH-dependent. Oil-soluble compounds ate used extensively in the industrial separation of rate earths by tiquid—tiquid extraction. The preferred extractants ate catboxyhc acids, otganophosphoms acids and esters, and tetraaLkylammonium salts. 

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