Materials dimethyl sulfoxide

Strong acids and strong alkaUes can severely bum the skin, chromium compounds can produce skin rashes, and repeated exposure to solvents causes removal of natural oils from the skin. Infection is always a concern for damaged skin. Absorption through the skin is possible for materials that are appreciably soluble iu both water and oil, eg, nitrobenzene, aniline, and tetraethyllead. Other materials can be absorbed if first dissolved iu extremely good solvents, eg, dimethyl sulfoxide. Subcutaneous iujection can occur accidentally by direct exposure of the circulatory system to a chemical by means of a cut or scratch or iuadvertent penetration of the skin with a hypodermic needle. 

Pesticide Solvent. The majority of organic fungicides, insecticides, and herbicides (qv) are soluble in DMSO, including such difficult-to-solvate materials as the substituted ureas and carbamates (see Fungicides, agricultural Insect control technology Pesticides). Dimethyl sulfoxide forms cosolvent systems of enhanced solubiUty properties with many solvents (109). 

Glean-Up Solvent. Dimethyl sulfoxide is used to remove urethane polymers and other difficult-to-solvate materials from processing equipment. 

Dccalin (decahydronaphthalene),benzene, 1,4-dioxane, and ethanol may be used as solvents for the photolysis. In an alternative procedure, volatile materials swept from the photolysis vessel are condensed in a dry ice trap. This cold mixture is added to a flask containing a magnetically stirred solution of dimsyl anion in dimethyl sulfoxide, and fractionation at reduced pressure provides a solution of bicyclopentene in tetrahydrofuran. 

Researchers studying polypeptide and polypeptide hybrid systems have also processed vesicles using two solvents. This method usually involves a common organic solvent that solubilizes both blocks and an aqueous solvent that solublizes only the hydrophilic block. The two solvents can be mixed with the polypeptide or polypeptide hybrid system at the same time or added sequentially. The choice of organic solvent depends heavily upon the properties of the polypeptide material, and commonly used solvents include dimethylformamide (DMF) [46, 59], methanol (MeOH) [49], dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) [50, 72], and tetrahydrofuran (THF) [44, 55]. Vesicles are usually formed when the organic solvent is slowly replaced with an aqueous solution via dialysis or removed through evaporation however, some vesicles have been reported to be present in the organic/aqueous mixture [49]. 

Treatment of pre-dried natural starting materials with compressed gases (propane and/or butane) and organic solvents to facilitate complete extraction Heating pre-treated lutein-containing material in mixture of aqueous solution, alkali hydroxide, and dimethyl sulfoxide/organic solvent under catalysis at 50 to 120 C... 

Fluorene-[2,5-di(aminoethoxy)benzene] copolymers 370a,b have been synthesized by Huang and coworkers [437,438] as precursors to the first water-soluble cationic PFs 371, 372a-c (Scheme 2.58). Whereas the neutral polymers 370a,b readily dissolve in common organic solvents such as THF, chloroform, toluene, and xylene (but not in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), methanol, or water) their quaternization produces material 371, which is insoluble in chloroform or THF but completely soluble in DMSO, methanol, and water. For... 

Materials. Reagent grade solvents, dimethyl formamide (DMF), dimethyl acetamide (DMAC), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and methanol were purchased from Baker, stored over molecular sieves once opened, and used without further purification. Aminoethane thiosulfuric acid (AETSA) purchased from Kodak, and Taurine, purchased from Alfa were purified by recrystallization. Each was thrice recrystallized from hot, deionized water. The crystalline precipitate was dried (48 hours at 40 °C) in-vacuo and subsequently stored in a desiccator. Benzophenone (BP) was purchased from Aldrich Chemical Company. QUANTACURE BTC (BTC), (4-benzolybenzyl) trimethylammonium chloride, was used as supplied by Aceto, Inc., Flushing, New York. Phenyl glycidyl ether (PGE) was purchased from MCB, distilled in-vacuo. and stored at -15 °C. Epon 828 was used as supplied bv Shell Chemical Company. The epoxy equivalent weight (EEW) for Epon 828 determined by an appropriate titration, was found to be 187.7. 

Materials Used, The poly(vinyl alcohol) used in this study was a commercial (Borden chemical) grade of fully hydrolyzed material which had an aqueous intrinsic viscosity of 0,762 which corresponds to a molecular weight of about 59,900. This material was dried in a vacuum oven for several days at about 100°C and 10 torr before it was used in the modification experiments. Dry, analytical grade dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was used as supplied. 

The chlorinated silica gel suspended in diethyl ether, dimethyl sulfoxide, or dioxane will also react with diamine or amino compounds. After being washed in an excess of amine and HC1, and then dried under vacuum, the final stationary phase materials are obtained ... 

The late discovery of acetyl xylan and feruloyl esterases has been partly due to the lack of suitable substrates. Xylans are often isolated by alkaline extraction, in which ester groups are saponified. Treatment of plant materials under mildly acidic conditions, as in steaming or aqueous-phase thermomechanical treatment, leaves most of the ester groups intact. These methods, however, partly hydrolyze xylan to shorter fragments (63,69). Polymeric acetylated xylan can be isolated from delignified materials by dimethyl sulfoxide extraction (70). The choice of substrate is especially important in studies of esterases for deacetylation of xylans. The use of small chromophoric substrates (p-nitrophenyl acetate, a-naphthyl acetate, and methylumbelliferyl acetate) analogously to the assays of disaccharidases may lead to the monitoring of esterases unable to deacetylate xylan (33, 63, 64). 

The reaction is carried out in dimethyl sulfoxide at 130-160 °C under an inert atmosphere. High purity of the starting materials is of prime importance in order to obtain high molecular weights. The water, which results from the neutralization of the bisphenols, can be removed via an azeotropic distillation with toluene. 

Equilibration of the alkyne 85 with potassium hydroxide alone produced a 1 1 mixture of allene 86 and starting material complete conversion to 86 resulted from treatment with potassium hydroxide or potassium tert-butoxide in dimethyl sulfoxide. ... 

Indium metal (0.85 g) is maintained at +15 V in a solution phase of 100 mLof 50 50 benzene-dimethyl sulfoxide (dmso). Benzene is purified as in Section A above dimethyl sulfoxide is dried over 4A molecular sieves before use. The cell is cooled in an ice bath throughout the experiment. Chlorine gas is bubbled slowly through the solution phase (about one bubble per second from a 2-mm tube) for 2 hours. At the end of this period, the solution is brown, and most of the indium has dissolved approximately 0.1 g of corroded material remains. 

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