One of the most desired aims in plasma medicine is to inactivate prokaryotic cells and leave eukaryotic cells unharmed or even stimulate proliferation to promote wound healing. The method of choice is to precisely control the plasma component composition. Here the authors investigate the inactivation of bacteria (Escherichia coli) by a plasma jet treatment. The reactive species composition created by the plasma in liquids is tuned by the use of a shielding gas device to achieve a reactive nitrogen species dominated condition or a reactive oxygen species dominated condition. A strong correlation between composition of the reactive components and the inactivation of the bacteria is observed. The authors compare the results to earlier investigations on eukaryotic cells and show that it is possible to find a plasma composition where bacterial inactivation is strongest and adverse effects on eukaryotic cells are minimized.

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The reaction of SO3 with either the palladium chlorides M2PdCl6 (M = Rb, NH4) or the nitrato-palladate (NO)2[Pd(NO3)4] at elevated temperature led to yellow single crystals of the complex palladates M2[Pd(S4O13)2] (M = NH4: triclinic, P1̅, a = 7.3882(3) Å, b = 8.5223(3) Å, c = 9.2712(4) Å, α = 71.945(2)°, β = 88.910(2)°, γ = 72.603(2)°, V = 527.88(4) Å3; M = NO: triclinic, P1̅, a = 7.2881(3) Å, b = 8.9125(2) Å, c = 8.9220(4) Å, α = 75.546(2)°, β = 89.151(2)°, γ = 69.516(2)°, V = 524.02(4) Å3; M = Rb: triclinic, P1̅, a = 7.4468(4) Å, b = 8.5066(4) Å, c = 9.2477(4) Å, α = 72.321(2)°, β = 88.512(2)°, γ = 72.128(2)°, V = 529.75(4) Å3). In the isotypic compounds, the Pd atom is in square planar oxygen coordination, achieved by two bidentate-chelating tetrasulfate anions. The reaction of Na2PdCl6 with neat SO3 afforded yellow crystals of Na2Pd(S4O13)2 (monoclinic, P21/c, a = 6.9953(4) Å, b = 15.9420(9) Å, c = 9.2299(5) Å, β = 100.235(2)°, V = 1012.45(1) Å3). The structure exhibits no palladate complexes but an anionic two-dimensional network, according to ∞2[Pd(S4O13)(4/2)]2–. The latter shows the tetrasulfate anions acting as bidentate-bridging ligands. The tetrasulfato-palladates were studied in more detail by means of thermal analyses and infrared (IR) spectroscopy. The observed IR bands were assigned according to quantum chemical calculations performed on the anion [Pd(S4O13)2]2–.

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