ONIOM calculation is carried out to estimate the acidity of five aliphatic alcohols before and after adsorbing on the tip of (8,0) single-walled carbon nanotube. The ONIOM method is performed using a combination of density functional theory and AM1 semiemperical method for alcohols and their corresponding conjugated bases. Deprotonation Gibbs free energies of alcohols are calculated and compare...

Homogeneous Cu/TEMPO catalyst systems (TEMPO = 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl) have emerged as some of the most versatile and practical catalysts for aerobic alcohol oxidation. Recently, we disclosed a (bpy)Cu(I)/TEMPO/NMI catalyst system (NMI = N-methylimidazole) that exhibits fast rates and high selectivities, even with unactivated aliphatic alcohols. Here, we present a mechanistic inve...

Pseudomonas putida strain DOT-T1E is highly tolerant to organic solvents, with a logP(ow) (the logarithm of the partition coefficient of a solvent in a two-phase water-octanol system of > or =2.5. Solvent tolerant microorganisms can be exploited to develop double-phase (organic solvent and water) biotransformation systems in which toxic substrates or products are kept in the organic phase. We t...

The present work establishes a quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) between topochemical features and odor threshold (OT) of aliphatic alcohols. A data set of 53 aliphatic alcohols was chosen for the analysis employing different chemometric techniques, among which, genetic function approximation with spline option (GFA-spline) showed the most acceptable results in terms of intern...

A quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) analysis of aliphatic alcohols is presented. Four physicochemical properties were studied: boiling point (BP), n-octanol-water partition coefficient (lg P(OW)), water solubility (lg W) and the chromatographic retention indices (RI) on different polar stationary phases. In order to investigate the quantitative structure-property relationship ...

an efficient method is described for the mild and rapid tetrahydropyranylation of alcohols and phenols using a catalytic amount of n-chlorosaccharin (1 mol %) and 3, 4-dihydro-2h-pyran under solvent-free condition at room temperature. benzylic alcohols and phenols containing electron withdrawing or donating groups in various positions of phenyl ring, cinamyl alcohol, primary, secondary, tertiar...

The oxidative cleavage of aliphatic acetals of normal aliphatic aldehydes and substituted aliphatic aldehydes with aliphatic as well as aromatic alcohols with lead tetra acetate in acetic acid, aqueous acetic acid and in acetic acid-benzene medium is first order each in [oxidant] and [acetal] and yields the corresponding esters as the main product The rate of oxidation depends upon the dielectr...

Alcohols and alkenes are the most abundant and commonly used organic building blocks in the large-scale chemical synthesis. Herein, this is the first time to report a novel and operationally simple coupling reaction of vinylarenes and aliphatic alcohols catalyzed by manganese in the presence of TBHP (tert-butyl hydroperoxide). This coupling reaction provides the oxyalkylated products of vinylar...