What's the difference between hydrocarbon and olefine?

Hydrocarbon


Definition:

  • (n.) A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
  • (2) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
  • (3) The length of the hydrocarbon chains of the surface-modified silica supports had no significant influence on the selectivity.
  • (4) The specificity of binding to microsomal proteins of metabolically activated hydrocarbons has been studied.
  • (5) Aryl hydrocarbon (benzo(a)pyrene) hydroxylase is present and inducible in Buffalo rat liver cells in culture.
  • (6) The possible occupational cause of the disease, as more solvents in the mud have the structure of aromatic hydrocarbons is discussed.
  • (7) Experiments with a series of adsorbents homologous with CPAD-Sepharose, in which the length of the hydrocarbon chain was varied, provided strong evidence of hydrophobic interactions, in addition to ionic interactions, in the binding of these proteins to CPAD-Sepharose.
  • (8) In the hydrocarbon promotion study, dose related increases were observed in the incidence of ACF in male rats promoted with UG or 50 ppm TMP for 24 or 60 weeks.
  • (9) The results also demonstrated that there was not any apparent correlation between the receptor-binding avidities and in vitro monooxygenase enzyme-induction potencies for the most active polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons.
  • (10) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
  • (11) Pancreas transplantation offers the possibility of preventing the development and progression of diabetic lesions by adequate control of hydrocarbon metabolism.
  • (12) A comparison of the relative cytosolic Ah (9S) receptor binding affinities and aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) induction potencies of these hydrocarbons with their 4S protein binding affinities demonstrated the following: five compounds, namely 1,2,5,6-dibenz[a]-anthracene, 1,2,3,4-dibenz[a]anthracene, picene, benzo[a]pyrene and 3-methylcholanthrene exhibited high to moderate binding affinities for the 4S and 9S cytosolic proteins (EC50 values less than 10(-6) M) and induced AHH in rat hepatoma cells; three compounds, namely perylene, benzo[e]pyrene and benzo[g,h,i]perylene exhibited high affinities for the 4S binding protein (1.25 X 10(-7), 4.4 X 10(-8) and 2.9 X 10(-8) M, respectively) and low affinities (EC50 values greater than 10(-5) M) for the Ah receptor protein; moreover these three compounds did not induce AHH in rat hepatoma H-4-II E cells in culture.
  • (13) It was found that HBSAg was strongly bound to straight hydrocarbon chains with more than seven carbon atoms.
  • (14) The parent hydrocarbons and the related K-region dihydrodiols induced some sister-chromatid exchanges but they were considerably less active than these two non-K-region diols.
  • (15) The effect of various fuel additives on the ability of platinum-palladium catalytic converters to remove the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon components of automotive exhaust has been examined.
  • (16) Other chlorinated hydrocarbons as decachlorobiphenyl, pentachloronaphthalene, hexachloronaphthalene and hexachlorostyrene were identified, but not quantified.
  • (17) It has been estimated that natural oil seeps may also contribute as much as 10% of the hydrocarbons in the global marine environment.
  • (18) The metabolic fate of the carcinogenic aza-aromatic hydrocarbon 7-methyl[7-(14)C]benz[c]acridine (14C-7MBAC) was studied in hepatocytes freshly isolated from untreated, phenobarbital-pretreated and 3-methylcholanthrene-pretreated rats.
  • (19) Renal cytochrome P450, aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase, 7-ethoxycoumarin-O-deethylase, and benzphetamine N-demethylase were increased after partial hepatectomy by 84%, 360%, 165% and 406%, respectively.
  • (20) Antioxidants devoid of hydrocarbon tails, are 10-20 fold more potent LPO inhibitors than the corresponding AOs with hydrocarbon tails.

Olefine


Definition:

  • (n.) Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This can be interpreted as the result of polarizing inductive (I-) and mesomeric (M-) effects exerted by Cl- as well as by CH3-substituents on the olefinic double bond.
  • (2) The following trans compounds were synthesized and their IC50 values were measured: homologated trans-isomers with one methylene chain (47 and 53), an olefin derivative (58), and optically active derivatives [-)-11 and (+)-23).
  • (3) The combined rate of formation of anomalous alcoholic and olefinic products was 10% the Vmax determined for the conversion of 1 to 2.
  • (4) These results would indicate that incorporation of a reactive olefinic compound to a lipidic microphase does not provide "per se" an efficient protection towards its attack by ozone.
  • (5) These changes were correlated to the decrease of the ratio of saturated to olefinic fatty acids in the mycelium, suggesting that alcohols and other polar lipophilic compounds can interfere with the biosynthesis and the function of the cytoplasmic membrane in Streptomyces.
  • (6) 108, 3837-3838), suggesting that the mechanism of epoxidation of olefins by methane monooxygenase differs at least in part from that of cytochrome P-450.
  • (7) Patchoulol synthase copurified with the ability to transform farnesyl pyrophosphate to cyclic olefins (alpha- and beta-patchoulene, alpha-bulnesene, and alpha-guiaene) and this observation, plus evidence based on differential inhibition and inactivation studies, suggested that these structurally related products are synthesized by the same cyclase enzyme.
  • (8) Oxidation of VI to the 24-aldehyde VII, followed by Wittig olefination with isopropyltriphenylphosphonium iodide gave 3 beta-acetoxy-5 alpha-cholesta-8(14),24-dien-15-one (VIII), which was hydrolyzed to the free sterol IX.
  • (9) The starting olefins were coated on a variety of solid substrates, exposed to known ozone concentrations and then analyzed for the corresponding aldehyde with a gas chromatograph equipped with a flame-ionization detector.
  • (10) This new analog (CD270), which contains no olefinic double bonds, is characterized by its chemical stability to light and atmospheric oxidation.
  • (11) This approach, used in conjunction with tandem mass spectrometry, allows the determination of olefinic bond location.
  • (12) The unexpected inactivity of 1f (E = C6H4-p-NO2) as a Michael acceptor and its very powerful competitive inhibition of papain were rationalized by molecular graphics which showed the nitrophenyl moiety rotated out of conjugation with the olefin and interacting instead with the hydrophobic S1' region of papain.
  • (13) Detection is based on the mass increase accompanying replacement of ethylene by other gas-phase olefins to form the corresponding olefin-substituted products.
  • (14) With cyclase II, the doubly labeled substrate gave bicyclic olefins with 3H:14C ratios of from 13 to 20, indicating preferential, but not exclusive, utilization of the (3S)-enantiomer in this case.
  • (15) That is, arene.Cr(CO)3 complex-catalyzed 1,4-hydrogenation of the dienes 13 and 58, obtainable from the Corey lactone in good yields, under high H2 pressure afforded the exocyclic olefins 14 and 61 stereospecifically in excellent yields, and these intermediates were converted to therapeutically useful carbacyclin (2) and its analogs 3-7 in a usual way.
  • (16) Resonance lines of the olefinic, methylene, methyl and carboxyl carbon nuclei are sufficiently characteristic to permit unequivocal designation of double bond position for each isomer.
  • (17) These deal with: (a) reactive properties of nucleic acids, including their component bases; (b) biological recognition processes, including drug-receptors and enzyme-substrate interactions; and (c) chemical carcinogenesis, referring specifically to the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and halogenated olefins and their epoxides.
  • (18) For olefins an initial electron transfer to oxidized haemprotein gives a substrate cation radical.
  • (19) The structure of the adduct was determined by 1H-NMR spectrometry, showing that thiolate attacked the olefinic double bond of the antibiotic.
  • (20) A series of lysophosphatidylethanolamine analogs containing saturated and methylene-interrupted cis-olefinic fatty chains was synthesized by phosphorylation and phosphonylation of respective fatty alcohols.

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