Silica boron sulfonic acid [SiO2–B(OSO3H)3] as an inexpensive, reusable, and Lewis and Brønsted acid catalyst was successfully synthesized, and used for the one-pot three-components synthesis of biologically active substituted Hantzsch 1,4-dihydropyridine derivatives  in the absence of solvent at 90ºC. Silica boron sulfonic acid is attractive and efficient, because it plays in two role as a Lew...

Melamine (2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine) has been used on numerous occasions by individuals as a food adulterant to boost the apparent nitrogen content of food. Together with cyanuric acid, melamine causes acute kidney failure. In the recent infant formula incident, 150,000 children were hospitalized and several died. The WHO recently requested the development of a rapid method to quantitativel...

Current results are presented on the research and development of the advanced humanitarian landmine detection system by using a compact discharge-type fusion neutron source called IECF (Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement fusion) devices. A water-jacketed IEC device(IEC20C) of a 20 cm inner diameter is operated to produce 10 neutrons/s stably in CW mode for 80 kV and 80 mA. Ample 10.8 MeV γ rays...

A new thermoreversible hydrogel of riboflavin and melamine supramolecular complex (> or =0.02%, w/v) shows enhanced photoluminescence properties through H-bonding.

Bio-based surfactants have attracted increasing attention due to their renewable resources and excellent surface properties. In this study, a novel bio-based sulfonic zwitterionic surfactant (BSZS) derived from transgenic soybean oil was prepared using a simple reaction route with two steps of the amidation and quaterisation. The bio-based sulfonic zwitterionic surfactant showed a critical mice...

a simple, mild and efficient method for the regioselective nitration of various aromatic compounds usingpoly(4-vinylpyridinium nitrate) (p4vpyn) in the presence of melamine trisulfonic acid (mtsa), is reported.this method provides several advantages such as good selectiveity between ortho and para positions ofaromatic compounds, clean procedure, simple work-up, short reaction times, solvent-fre...

This paper describes a fast method for the sensitive and selective determination of melamine in a wide range of food matrices, including several milk-based products. The method involves an extraction with aqueous 1% trichloroacetic acid before the injection of the 10-fold diluted extract into the liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS) system, using labelled m...

Two new tris-melamine derivatives, triazine-thio-M(3) (5) (C(3)N(3)-2,4,6-[SCH(2)C(6)H(4)-3-N(CH(2)C(6)H(4)-4-C(CH(3))(3))COC(6)N(3)-2-NHC(3)N(3)(NH(2))(NHCH(2)CH(2)C(CH(3))(3))-5-Br](3)) and benzene-thio-M(3) (6) (C(6)H(3)-1,3,5-[SCH(2)C(6)H(4)-3-N(CH(2)C(6)H(4)-4-C(CH(3))(3))COC(6)H(3)-2-NHC(3)N(3)(NH(2))(NHCH(2)CH(2)C(CH(3))(3))-5-Br](3)), were synthesized by reactions of 2,4,6-trithiocyanur...