Nitrous oxide reductions

Balderston, W. L., Sherr, B., and Payne, W. J. (1976). Blockage by acetylene of nitrous oxide reduction in Pseudomonas perfectomarinus. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 31, 504-508. 

Yoshinari, T., and Knowles, R. (1976). Acetylene inhibition of nitrous oxide reduction by denitrifying bacteria. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 69, 705-710. 

S0rensen, J., Tiedje, J. M., and Firestone, R. B. (1980). Inhibition by sulfide ofnitric and nitrous oxide reduction by denitrifying Pseudomonas fluorescens. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 39, 105—108. 

Dalsgaard T. and Bak F. (1992) Effect of acetylene on nitrous oxide reduction and sulfide oxidation in batch and gradient cultures of Thiobacillus denitrificans. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58, 1601-1608. 

Richards SR and Knowles R, Inhibition of nitrous oxide reduction by a component of Hamilton Harbor sediment, FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 17, 39, 1995. 

Sorensen, J., Rasmussen, L.K. and Koike, I., 1987. Micromolar sulfide concentrations alleviate blockage of nitrous oxide reduction by denitrifying Pseudomonas fluorescens. Can. J. Microbiol., 33, 1001-1005. 

Reduction of the N-N bond affords the parent amine and nitrous oxide. Reduction of the N-O bond gives the unsymmetrical hydrazine, which can be further reduced to give the parent amine and ammonia. Because both reaction pathways ultimately result in the formation of the parent amine, it can be difficult to discern the reaction mechanism for reduction. Reduction of N-nitrosoamines to the parent amine is generally considered a detoxification pathway for nitrosoamines however, formation of the hydrazine has been suggested to be a possible pathway for bioactivation (Tatsumi et ah, 1983). 

McEwan, A., A.J. Greenfield, H.G. Wetzstein, J.B. Jackson, and S.J. Ferguson (1985). Nitrous oxide reduction by members of the family RhodospiriUaceae and the nitrous oxide reductase of Rhodopseudomonas capsulate. J. Bacteriol. 164(2), 823-830. 

Gomez R, Gutierrez de Dios FJ, FeUu JM. Carbon monoxide oxidation and nitrous oxide reduction on Rh/Pt(l 1 1) electrodes. Electrochim Acta 2004 49 1195-1208. 

Nitrous oxide may also be obtained by the controlled reduction of nitrates or nitrites, decomposition of hyponitrites, or thermal decomposition of hydroxylamine. 

The nitrous oxide merely suppresses reduction of ferricyanide by by converting the latter to 0 . For a number of alcohols and glycols and also polyethylene oxide of molecular weight 200-2 x lO, the values of A (R +ferricyanide) fall in the range 2-5 x 10 l.mole sec ... 

Nitrous oxide has received increasing attention the last decade, due to the growing awareness of its impact on the environment, as it has been identified as an ozone depletion agent and as a Greenhouse gas [1]. Identified major sources include adipic acid production, nitric acid and fertilizer plants, fossil fuel and biomass combustion and de-NOx treatment techniques, like three-way catalysis and selective catalytic reduction [2,3]. 

Steady photoemission currents can be realized when acceptors (scavengers) for the solvated electrons are present in the solution. A good scavenger should be nonelectroactive at the potenhal of interest, should react quickly with solvated electrons, and the reaction products should be either nonelectroactive or reducible. A reachon with acceptors implies that the current of reoxidation of the solvated electrons becomes lower, and thus a steady photoemission current appears. The acceptors most often used are nitrous oxide, N2O, and hydroxonium ions, HjO. In the former case, OH radical is produced in the scavenging process, which undergoes further reduction on the electrode, thus doubling the photocurrent ... 

The ultimate mode of reduction in function, which, if sufficiently severe, results in death, is blood oxygen desaturation and accumulation of carbon dioxide. However, the inflammatory changes that the insults listed above can evoke and contribute to interference with the perfusion/ventilation relationship are varied and have different expressions in diverse lung disorders bronchial hyperresponsiveness after ozone or nitrous oxide... 

Chianese, D. S., Rotz, C. A., and Richard, T. L. (2009d). Simulation of nitrous oxide emissions from dairy farms to assess greenhouse gas reduction strategies. Trans. ASABE 52, 1325-1335. 

The flame ionization detector Is the most popular of the flame-based detectors. Apart from a reduction in sensitivity compared to expectations based on gas chromatographic response factors [138] and incompatibility with the high flow rates of conventional bore columns (4-5 mm I. 0.), the flame ionization detector is every bit as easy to use in SFC as it is in gas chromatography [148,149]. It shows virtually no response to carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and sulfur hexafluoride mobile phases but is generally incompatible with other mobile phases and mixed mobile phases containing organic modifiers except for water and formic acid, other gas chromatographic detectors that have been used in SFC include the thermionic ionization detector (148,150], ... 

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