Adsorption of fluorinated anesthetics within the pores of a molecular crystal
Teng-Hao Chen1, Watchareeya Kaveevivitchai, Allan J Jacobson
1Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, 112 Fleming Building, Houston, TX 77004-5003, USA. miljanic@uh.edu.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 8, 2015
Abstract:
Commonly used inhalation anesthetics-enflurane, isoflurane, sevoflurane, halothane, and methoxyflurane-are adsorbed within the pores of a porous fluorinated molecular crystal to the tune of up to 73.4(±0.2)% by weight. Uptake of all studied anesthetics is quite fast, typically reaching saturation in less than three minutes.
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