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Eni-ente Nazionale Idrocarburi

E.n.i. Nazionale Idrocarburi

E.n.i. Ente Nozionale Idrocarburi

Walter Marconi

Francesco Bartoli

Franco Morisi

Francesco Pittalis

Nicola Palladino

Marcello Mazzei

Ludwig Degen

Eugenio Fascetti

Roberto Olivieri

Felice Centini

Giancarlo Eletti Bianchi

Luciano Re

Piergiorgio Zappelli

Roberto Gianna

Romano Di Trapani

Delio Zaccardelli

Giulio Prosperi

Mario Riocci

Silvio Gulinelli

Nicola Oddo

Matteo Giongo

Francesco Di Gregorio

Silvia Giovenco

Giuseppina Spotorno

Paolo Bacchin

This invention relates to chemical products of general formula ##STR1## wherein R is an amino group, mono or bi-hydroxyalkyl substituted, or a thio group, mono hydroxyalkyl substituted, in which one or more of the available --OH groups have been esterified with acids containing 2 to 18 carbon atoms. It is also described a process for the preparation of said products, which comprises reacting a corresponding starting compound, N or S-hydroxyalkyl substituted, with the chloride or the anhydride of the acid concerned.

Treating pain, inflammation and/or platelet aggregation

This invention relates to a process for the preparation of D(-) mandelic acid by the acid hydrolysis of the corresponding carbamate in an aqueous environment at a temperature of between 40.degree. and 100.degree. C. and at a pH of between 1 and 3.5. The invention also relates to a process for the enzymatic hydrolysis of racemic 5-substituted 2,4-oxazolidinediones to give only one of the two possible optical isomers, i.e., the D-carbamyl-.alpha.-hydroxy acid. The free D-.alpha.-hydroxy acid can be obtained from the optically active carbamyl derivative by simple hydrolysis. Of particular interest is the case in which the D-.alpha.-hydroxy acid is D(-)mandelic acid. The enzymatic activity required for preparing the carbamyl derivative of D(-)mandelic acid has been found both in homogenised veal liver and in a series of microorganisms, including Agrobacterium radiobacter, Bacillus brevis, Bacillus stearothermophilus, Pseudomonas sp., Pseudomonas desmolytica, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Pseudomonas putida.

Process for producing D(-)mandelic acid

A prosthetic polymer material is made non-thrombogenic by immobilizing apyrase on its surface. Immobilization is preferably carried out by hydrolytically activating the surface of a polyamide polymer or a polyethylene terphthalate polymer, and treating the hydrolyzed polymer with a solution of cross-linking agent and a solution of apyrase. The apyrase converts adenosine diphosphate to adenosine monophosphate and adenosine whereby the formation of thrombi is inhibited.

Preparation of biocompatible materials by immobilization of apyrase

Fibres for biological uses can be produced by adding to a spinnable solution of a polymer selected from among many of the most common polymers and copolymers, a substance selected from among anti-platelet aggregation substances, anticoagulants and substances having a similar action. The substances can also be applied as a surface outer layer to articles made with the polymeric substances.

Bio-compatible porous fibres and materials for occluding biologically

Polyamide materials for the construction of protheses and surgical sundries are made biocompatible by inducing a superficial hydrolysis by treating such materials, either raw or in the form of shaped articles, with a normal multiple solution of hydrogen chloride. Thrice normal or fourfold normal solutions are preferred and the treatment time being a function of the temperature. At human body temperature (37.degree. C.) a treatment time from 30 to 60 minutes will do.

Superficially hydrolyzed biocompatible polyamide material

This invention relates to a process for preparing carbamyl derivatives of .alpha.-hydroxy acids by the hydrolysis of 5-substituted 2,4-oxazolidinediones. The carbamyl derivatives can be further hydrolyzed to .alpha.-hydroxy acids. The invention also relates to a process for the enzymatic hydrolysis of racemic 5-substituted 2,4-oxazolidinediones to give only one of the two possible optical isomers, i.e. the D-carbamyl-.alpha.-hydroxy acid. The free D-.alpha.-hydroxy acid can be obtained from the optically active carbamyl derivative by simple hydrolysis. Of particular interest is the case in which the D-.alpha.-hydroxy acid is D(-)mandelic acid. The enzymatic activity required for preparing the carbamyl derivative of D(-)mandelic acid has been found both in homogenized veal liver and in a series of microorganisms, including Agrobacterium radiobacter, Bacillus brevis, Bacillus stearothermophilus, Pseudomonas sp., Pseudomonas desmolytica, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Pseudomonas putida.

Process for preparing carbamyl derivatives of .alpha.-hydroxy acids and

For the asymmetrical hydrogenation of prochiral olefins, a catalyst system is proposed which is a Rhodium cationic complex immobilized on a clay-like mineral such as hectorite, bentonite and haloysite.

Asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral olefins by complexes of transition

A method is disclosed for embedding sequestering agents in filamentary structures, the method comprising the steps of preparing an emulsion formed by an aqueous or nearly aqueous solution of the sequestering agent and a solution of the filament-forming polymer in an appropriate solvent, and spinning the emulsion in a coagulation bath.

Method for occluding sequestering agents in filamentary structure,

A composition for the purification of blood in which impurities of the mercaptan class are present is disclosed, such composition being occluded in fibrous materials and consisting of a polymer functionalized with an organic mercury compound or with an anhydride of an organic acid. As the functionalizing compounds parachloromercury aniline, parachloromercurybenzoic acid and maleic anhydride are preferred.

Biocompatible cellulose triacetate fibres for the purification of blood

Phenylalanine level in blood or another medium is considerably reduced and can even be annulled by causing blood or the other medium to flow through a mass of porous fibers in which the enzyme phenylalanine ammonia lyase has been occluded: the fibers have been previously made biocompatible, if necessary.

Phenylalanine ammonia lyase occluded fibers for reducing phenylalanine

Biocompatible articles are obtained by treating a polymeric material with a hydrolyzing agent on its surface and covalently binding thereon a biological agent, such as an anti-platelet-aggregation agent.

Preparation of non-thrombogenic polymeric material article with platelet

A method is disclosed for improving the activity of oxireductase enzymes, the improvement consisting in that an enzyme and a previously functionalized coenzyme are embedded in a filamentary structure, the coenzyme having previously been attached to a water-soluble, high-molecular-weight polymer.

Method for improving the activity of oxireductase enzymes embedded in

Polymers of the type commonly used in packaging are rendered degradable through the action of sunlight by adding thereto up to 3% of an olefinically unsaturated compound containing at least two double bonds, such as 1,6-diphenylhexatriene.

Process for rendering polymers degradable and polymers obtained thereby

A macromolecular adenine derivative containing at least one unity having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein, n is 1, 2, 3 or 4; the radical: ##STR2## is derived from an adenine derivative wherein the amino group in position 6 in the adenine nucleus is functional; and the nitrogen atom, N&lt;, belongs to a macromolecular compound containing one or more primary or secondary amine groups, is prepared by condensing the functional adenine derivative with a polymer containing one or more primary or secondary amine groups in the presence of a carbodiimide. These compounds are useful in affinity chromatographies or as unspreading co-enzymes.

Macromolecular adenine nucleotide derivatives

A prochiral or racemic substrate such as a prochiral ketone is converted into an optically active product through a process wherein said substrate is subjected to an asymmetric hydrogen transfer reaction by means of an optically active amino-alane or polyimino-alane represented by the formula

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Walter Marconi