Angelina’s choice

Abstract

This is an opinion piece on how a celebrity’s personal choice to undergo prophylactic mastectomy on discovery of an aberrant gene, when publicly promoted, carries in itself the power to influence and impact healthcare trends and decisions. When celebrities advocate causes that are universally and uniformly acceptable and indisputable as the best in the realm of healthcare and cure (e.g. no smoking), it creates well-being and awareness in society at large. But those which are personal choices made out of a repertoire of other available and effective options may, because of celebrity preference, don the mantle of a norm. They thus run the danger of being blindly replicated by others without proper awareness and knowledge of the true potential of disease, risk factors, and other existing remedial or risk-reducing measures. Society should thus be encouraged to question, debate, and understand the validity, authenticity, and reason of the choices, especially those with a medical basis. This tempering of information with intelligence and rationale and making informed choices based on facts will serve humanity as a whole.

Physical and Chemical Methods Used for Determination of Structures of Some Imines Derived from Different Carbonyl Compounds

“…1-specific chemical [18] tests: Table(2) showed specific chemical tests were used in identification of imines under study .This included FeCl 3 reagent used in identification of OH groups in oxime and phenolic forms .This gave positive tests for all imines numbered (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). Also the halogen test was applied to imines numbered (13-14) with positive results.…”

“…This methods was applied for the investigation of hydrogen bonding in imines (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) , as follows :-Electronic spectra The Electronic spectra were used [19] by many workers for the investigation of hydrogen bonding in organic compounds . The electronic spectra for oxime and phenolic imines were measured in polar ethanol solvent and in non polar benzene solvent typical example is shown in Fig.…”

“…These last might be due interaction of aromatic ring with azomethine group . 4-The OH bands in imines numbers (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) , showed a broad to medium intensities stretching bands of wave numbers range (3105.31-3368.33) cm -1 . This was due to conversion of enol tautomer in imine mentioned to keto tautomer as seen later .…”

“…In order to confirm the type of intra or inter molecular hydrogen bonding exist in imines (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) , hence it was decided to use the dilution method [19,20] to interpret the type of bonding . Accordingly 10 -3 M or 10 -4 M solutions for imines numbered (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) were prepared in benzene solvent . Spectra for imines were measured before and after dilution to ratios 1:3 .…”

“…During the last few years imine as oxime form was prepared by novel ionic liquid water biphase system [1] and in a green conditions [2] ,other workers had prepared Schiff bases by the aid of microwave [3][4] without using solvent. The wide applications of imines in different fields ,encourage the workers to increase experimentation in such direction as ,antimicrobial [5][6] activity , biological [7] study , biomarkers [8] , analytical [9] study and metal complexation [10] . During the last decade Azzouz etal had interested in imines chemistry in a directions of thermodynamic [11] ,kinetic [12] ,tautomerism [13][14] ,and pka [15] studies .…”