The demand for rare earth elements has increased dramatically in recent years because of their numerous industrial applications, and considerable research efforts have consequently been directed toward recycling these materials. The accumulation of metals in microorganisms is a low-cost and environmentally friendly method for the recovery of metals present in the environment at low levels. Numerous metals, including rare earth elements, can be readily dissolved in aqueous acid, but the efficiency of metal biosorption is usually decreased under the acidic conditions. In this report, we have investigated the use of the sulfothermophilic red alga Galdieria sulphuraria for the recovery of metals, with particular emphasis on the recovery of rare earth metals. Of the five different growth conditions investigated where G. sulphuraria could undergo an adaptation process, Nd(III), Dy(III), and Cu(II) were efficiently recovered from a solution containing a mixture of different metals under semi-anaerobic heterotrophic condition at a pH of 2.5. G. sulphuraria also recovered Nd(III), Dy(III), La(III), and Cu(II) with greater than 90% efficiency at a concentration of 0.5 ppm. The efficiency remained unchanged at pH values in the range of 1.5-2.5. Furthermore, at pH values in the range of 1.0-1.5, the lanthanoid ions were collected much more efficiently into the cell fractions than Cu(II) and therefore successfully separated from the Cu(II) dissolved in the aqueous acid. Microscope observation of the cells using alizarin red suggested that the metals were accumulating inside of the cells. Experiments using dead cells suggested that this phenomenon was a biological process involving specific activities within the cells.
Dehydrative glycosylations of the 2-, 3-, 4-, and 6-OH groups of d-glucopyranose with hepta-O-benzyl derivatives of glucobioses (O-d-glucopyranosyl-(1→n)-d-glucopyranose; n = 2, 3, 4, or 6) and lactose, in the presence of a ternary mixture of p-nitrobenzenesulfonyl chloride, silver trifluoromethanesulfonate, and triethylamine in dichloromethane showed that the selectivity of the reaction depended on the anomeric configuration and the linking position to the reducing tribenzylglucose moiety of the nonreducing tetrabenzylglucosyl residue and on the class of the OH group to be glycosylated. The use of a quaternary mixture of p-nitrobenzenesulfonyl chloride, silver trifluoromethanesulfonate, N,N-dimethylacetamide, and triethylamine made all but the β(1→2)-linked biosyl donor undergo α-condensation. Several new linear trisaccharides were obtained via debenzylation of the condensates.
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