We discuss the successful use of chemically-modified cellulose paper as a microstructured catalytic reactor for the production of useful chemicals. The chemical modification of cellulose paper was achieved using a silane-coupling technique. Amine-modified paper was directly used as a base catalyst for the Knoevenagel condensation reaction. Methacrylate-modified paper was used for the immobiliza...

This work describes the synthesis and characterisation of a new series of polyphenylenes with up to four ferrocenyl moieties. The synthetic route involves the preparation of a number of novel precursors. Cyclopentadienones, generated from the two-fold Knoevenagel condensation of di-ferrocenyl propanones and diketones, are used in [2 + 4] Diels-Alder cycloadditions with appropriately substituted...

The title compound, C37H34FN3OS2·C2H6OS, was obtained by the Knoevenagel condensation. The thia-zolidine ring is essentially planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.025 Å) and forms dihedral angles of 4.2 (3), 68.60 (14) and 39.57 (15)° with the attached thio-amide group, p-tolyl group benzene ring and fluoro-substituted benzene ring, respectively. The exocyclic double bonds are in a Z configuration. In t...