Solar photoelectrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol in aqueous media was driven on hybrid CuO/Cu2O semiconductor nanorod arrays for the first time. A two-step synthesis was designed and demonstrated for the preparation of these hybrid copper oxide one-dimensional nanostructures on copper substrates. The first step consisted in the growth of CuO nanorods by thermal oxidation of a ...

A series of oxometallic species and metal acetylacetonates (acac) was examined as catalysts for oxidative carbonylation of styrene with benzaldehyde using t-butylhydroperoxide as the co-oxidant in warm acetonitrile. Among them, VO((acac)2 and vanadyl(IV) chloride were found to be the only catalyst class to achieve cross-coupling processes by judiciously tuning the ligand electronic attributes, ...

A plasma polymerization process using a continuous glow discharge has been implemented for preparing proton conducting membranes from trifluoromethane sulfonic acid and styrene. The chemical and physical structure of plasma membranes has been investigated using FTIR and SEM. The films are homogeneous with a good adhesion on commercial gas diffusion layer (E-Tek). Their deposition rate can be in...

To provide further insight into electronic and steric factors and to quantify their relative importance, we studied in detail the migratory CO insertion step for RhMe(CO)I2(L–L) systems (L–L = dppms (PPh2CH2P(S)Ph2) or dppe (PPh2CH2CH2PPh2)), Monsanto catalysts and some electronically unsymmetrical diphosphine model systems. The difference in the reaction rates of dppms and dppe has a clear ele...

Prior to preparation of CRM candidate of chloramphenicol in methanol with a concentration of 100 mg/L, two independent methods including mass balance (MB) and quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance (qNMR) were employed to precisely measure the mass fraction of pure chloramphenicol materials. The mass fraction was assigned to be 99.8% with uncertainty of 0.3%. Homogeneity testing and stability ...

A novel in situ synthesized Ru(bpy)3/TiO2 hybrid nanocomposite is developed for the photoreduction of CO2 into methanol under visible light irradiation. The prepared composite was characterized by means of SEM, TEM, XRD, DT-TGA, XPS, UV-Vis and FT-IR techniques. The photocatalytic activity of the synthesized hybrid catalyst was tested for the photoreduction of CO2 under visible light using trie...

A sulfonated polyethersulfone (SPES)/polyethersulfone (PES) blend catalytic membrane was prepared and used as a heterogeneous catalyst in the esterification of the acidified oil (acid value 153 mg KOH/g) with methanol for producing biodiesel. The results showed that the free fatty acids conversion reached 97.6% using SPES/PES catalytic membrane under the optimal esterification conditions. Meanw...

Benzene and methanol make a minimum boiling point homogeneous binary azeotrope with the mole ratio 2:3. Some characteristic vibrational modes, as well as (1)H NMR signals change due to the azeotrope formation. The extend of interaction of these molecules causes significant changes on some vibrational modes involved, and (1)H NMR signals show some changes on their position. No IR, Raman, and NMR...

The extensive demand for cleaner environment is forcing the chemical industry to use less hazardous materials. In this regard, solid catalysts have lately attracted the attention of scientists and researchers around the world.1–8 By using sufficient amounts of these heterogeneous catalysts, their catalytic activity for ester formation can be equivalent to that of conventional homogeneous cataly...

We employed an efficient and facile route to synthesise monodisperse Pd-based bimetallic nanocrystals (MPd: M = Cu, Co and Ni) via a controlled co-reduction of Pd(ii) chloride and M(ii) nitrate at 200-230 °C in the presence of oleylamine (OAm). These monodisperse Pd-based nanocrystals have small dimensions, unique structures and homogeneous morphology, thus exhibit efficient catalytic activitie...