(a.) Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Metalorganic and quarternary ammonium compounds when added to culture medium inhibited growth of Aspergillus niger mycelium and activity of neutral and alkaline phosphatase.
(2) The metalorganic product, triphenylstibine, added to the nutrition medium for Drosophila melanogaster larvae induces multiple modification effects, such as rough eye, wing incision, small bristles and others.
Organometallic
Definition:
(a.) Metalorganic.
Example Sentences:
(1) In general, enzyme activity was strongly reduced by heavy metal inorganic cations; less strongly by organometallic cations, some anions, and certain pesticides; and weakly inhibited by light metal cations and organometallic and organic compounds.
(2) A knowledge gained of the biosynthesis of steroids and its specific enzymes helped to initiate my general polyketide theory of biosynthesis and also my idea of outdoing enzyme achievements with organometallic complexes ("inorganic enzyme chemistry").
(3) In mice bearing Ehrlich ascites tumor cells, all four compounds inhibited the tumor growth, the organometallic phosphorodithioates being more active than phosphinodithioate analogues, and the organoantimony derivatives more active than organotins.
(4) The organometallic compound, trimethyltin (TMT), is used as a selective denervation tool to validate morphological, biochemical and functional approaches to the detection and characterization of neurotoxicity.
(5) Studies on structure-activity relationships of organometallic anticancer drugs are reviewed.
(6) An immunoassay method based on the labelling of an antigen with a transition-metal carbonyl organometallic marker and detection of the label by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy is described.
(7) Supercritical fluid chromatography coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry shows high potential for the determination at ultratrace levels of organometallic compounds of environmental interest.
(8) Corrinoids are central cofactors in bacterial metabolism, where they participate in a series of organometallic and redoxprocesses.
(9) This pathway is unique in that the major intermediates are enzyme-bound and are often organometallic complexes.
(10) The only active nongold organometallic complex was spirogermanium which had an equivalent IC50 for activity as AF.
(11) Resonance Raman spectra are reported for the organometallic phenyl-FeIII complexes of horse heart myoglobin.
(12) Non-platinum-group metal antitumor agents are represented by inorganic and organometallic compounds which contain either main-group metals such as gallium, germanium, and tin, or transition metals such as titanium, vanadium, iron, copper, and gold.
(13) This arrangement permits the metal to take part in the kinds of organometallic reactions that are ideal for coenzyme B-12 catalysis, including oxidative addition and its reverse, reductive elimination.
(14) Three new organometallic compounds, with iminodiacetic acid as the 99mTc chelating group and 2,3-diaminopropionamide as the platinum complexing group, have been prepared and characterized.
(15) Toxic elements that form organometallic compounds, especially the metal-alkyls (e.g., methylmercury), deserve special concern.
(16) On the other hand, the alpha-face of the A-ring of estradiol did tolerate positively charged organometallic fragments bearing bulky substituents although the RBA value tended to decrease with increasing charge.
(17) The validity of the technique has been tested in a phenobarbital assay using as the marker a cyclopentadienylmanganese (I) tricarbonyl (cymantrene) moiety, ethyl acetate extraction to separate the free and bound organometallic fractions, and FT-IR spectroscopy to detect the CO stretching modes of the organometallic label.
(18) The data indicate that protein-energy deficiency may impair the absorption of zinc by the rat intestinal mucosa in the presence of low-molecular-weight substances of high affinity for zinc, without altering the absorption of amino acids, or of zinc organometallic complexes in which the metal is tightly bound.
(19) The majority of this material was present as an organometallic form of manganese other than CMT.