• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.758-762
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• 2007

A new alkyldithiocarbonate (xanthate), as sodium salts, C2H5OCS2Na, was synthesized by the reaction between CS2 with ethyl alcohol in the presence of NaOH. The new xanthate was characterized by 1H NMR, IR and elemental analysis. Then, the new synthesized compound was examined for functional study of cresolase activity of Mushroom Tyrosinase (MT) from a commercial source of Agricus bisporus in 10 mM phosphate buffer pH 6.8, at three temperatures of 10, 20 and 33℃ using UV spectrophotemetry. 4-[(4-methylphenyl)- azo]-phenol (MePAPh) was used as a synthetic substrate for the enzyme for cresolase reaction. The results show that ethyl xanthate can activate or inhibit the cresolase activity of mushroom tyrosinase depending to the concentration of ethyl xanthate. It was concluded that the enzyme has two distinct sites for ethyl xanthate. The first one is a high-affinity activation site and the other is a low-affinity inhibition site. Activation of the enzyme in the low concentration of ethyl xanthate arises from increasing the affinity of binding for the substrate as well as increasing the enzyme catalytic constant. The affinity of ligand binding in the activation site is decreased by increasing of the temperature, which is the opposite result for the inhibition site. Hence, the nature of the interaction of ethyl xanthate is different in two distinct sites. The binding process for cresolase inhibition is only entropy driven, meanwhile the binding process for cresolase activation is not only entropy driven but also enthalpy driven means that hydrophobic interaction is more important in the inhibition site.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.34 no.12
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• pp.3545-3546
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• 2013

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.2215-2226
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• 2000

Adsorption characteristics for homologous xanthates on quartz surface has been investigated by FT-IR spectroscopy to understand the adsorption mechanism in relation with verification of the influence of surfactants on the stability of hydrophilic suspended solids in aqueous system. Contact angle measurement for water droplets on quartz surface treated with xanthate was also conducted as a supplementary study for spectroscopic investigation to grant a reliability to the interpretation of experimental results. It has been observed that monolayer of ethyl xanthate was formed on quartz surface as the adsorption progressed and double layer of ethyl xanthate was formed eventually through the reverse oriented adsorption of xanthate molecules on the monolayer. Similar trend of adsorption to the case of ethyl xanthate was found for propyl and butyl xanthates and adsorption was observed to occur more rapidly as the number of carbon atom in alkyl group of xanthate homologs increased. Thermodynamic aspect of adsorption was discussed using Young's equation and the variation in adsorption rate was examined according to the concentration of ethyl xanthate. Based on the result, it has been concluded that the adsorption features of surfactant on substrate in aquatic system is governed by molecular structure and concentration of surfactant and its residual time in aqueous environment as dissolved state also influences greatly the stability of hydrophilic suspended particles.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.58-64
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• 2010

In order to select the proper collector for the flotation of malachite, we had floated malachite by using various collectors. When measuring the zeta potential of malachite, we knew that the point of zero charge of malachite is found at pH 8.2 and malachite particles are negatively charged above this pH value; and positively, below this pH value. The floatability of malachite by the anionic collectors like sodium oleate and Aeropromoter 845, was about 97% in pH 5~11 range, whereas that of malachite by alkyl hydroxamate and the cationic collector like dodecyl trimethyl ammonium chloride and dodecyl ethyl methyl ammonium chloride, was below 15% above pH 5 regardless of dosage increase of collector and flotation time. The malachite sulphidised by $(NH_4)_2S$ was floated above 97% by potassium amyl xanthate. The dosage of potassium amyl xanthate decreased and the flotation period shortened to one third than when it was not sulphidised by $(NH_4)_2S$. Therefore, potassium amyl xanthate and the anionic collectors like sodium oleate and Aeropromoter 845 can be used as the collector of malachite.