The copolymerization of epoxides, including cyclohexene oxide and vinyl-cyclohexene oxide with carbon dioxide are presented. These processes are catalyzed using a homogeneous di-zinc complex that shows good activity and very high selectivities for polycarbonate polyol formation. The polymerizations are investigated in the presence of different amounts of exogenous reagents, including water, dio...

Organic solvents, such as cyclohexane, cyclohexene, methylcyclohexane, benzene and toluene, are widely used as both reagents and solvents in industrial processes. Despite the ubiquity of these liquids, the local structures that govern the chemical properties have not been studied extensively. Herein, we report neutron diffraction measurements on liquid cyclohexane, cyclohexene, methylcyclohexan...

Cyclohexene nucleic acids (CeNA), which are characterized by the presence of a cyclohexene moiety instead of a natural (deoxy)ribose sugar, are known to increase the thermal and enzymatic stability when incorporated in RNA oligonucleotides. As it has been demonstrated that even a single cyclohexenyl nucleoside, when incorporated in an oligonucleotide, can have a profound effect on the biologica...

Manganese(II) complex [(Bn-tpen)MnII]2+ activated dioxygen for oxidation of cyclohexene in acetonitrile (MeCN) and methanol (MeOH). In MeCN, ketone (2-cyclohexen-1-one), alcohol (2-cyclohexen-1-ol) and small amounts of epoxide (cyclohexene oxide) were produced in this reaction, while in MeOH only ketone was formed. In the most efficient experiment, the combination of 2.5 × 10-4 mol% [(Bn-tpen)M...

A new well-defined bisbenzoin group end-functionalized poly(ε-caprolactone) macrophotoinitiator (PCL-(PI)2) was synthesized by combination of ring opening polymerization (ROP) and click chemistry. The ROP of ε-CL monomer in bulk at 110 °C, by means of a hydroxyl functional initiator namely, 3-cyclohexene-1-methanol in conjunction with stannous-2-ethylhexanoate, (Sn(Oct)2), yielded a well-define...

Mn(TPP)Cl catalyzes cooxidation of olefin in the singlet oxygenation of sulfid. Mn(TPP)Cl is able to transfer an oxygen atom from a peroxidic intermediate generated in singlet oxygenation of sulfide to a metal ion affording metal 0x0 species which is responsible for epoxidation. This system leads to allcenes epoxidation such as styrene and cyclooctene. Epoxidation of cyclohexene produces cy...

Abstract A series of α -MoO 3 -TiO 2 mixed oxides were prepared by calcining a mixture the heteropolyacid H PMo 12 O 40 and TiO at temperatures ranging from 350 °C to 600 °C. The thus characterized tested for oxidation cyclohexene oxidizing /CO . FTIR XRD characterizations showed that Keggin structure was preserved calcination below 400 Above 450 °C, Keggin’s collapses. analysis revealed as tem...

3-Formylsalicylic acid (Hfsal), covalently bound to chloromethylated polystyrene (PS) and cross-linked with 5% divinylbenzene reacts with d,l-alanine and l-isoleucine to give the Schiff-base tridentate ligands PS-H(2)fsal-d,l-Ala and PS-H(2)fsal-l-Ile, respectively. These anchored ligands upon reaction with VOSO(4) and Cu(CH(3)COO)(2).H(2)O form the complexes PS-[VO(fsal-d,l-Ala)(H(2)O)], PS-[C...

Investigation of complex molecular systems depends on our ability to correlate physical measurements with molecular structure. Interpretation of studies that rely on synthetic polymers is generally limited by their heterogeneity; i.e., there is variation in the number and arrangement of the monomeric building blocks that have been incorporated. Superior physics and biology can be performed with...