Green tea catechins (GTC) are polyphenolic compounds present in the unfermented dried leaves of the plant, Camellia sinensis. Results from a number of randomized, controlled intervention trials have shown that consumption of GTC (270 mg to 1200 mg/day) may reduce body weight and fat. There are several proposed mechanisms whereby GTC may influence body weight and composition. The predominating h...

A "green" highly selective oxidation of organic sulfides to the corresponding sulfoxides was developed using hydrogen peroxide and glacial acetic acid under transition metal-free and mild conditions. The oxidation procedure is very simple and the products are easily isolated in excellent yields (90-99%).

A novel, organocatalytic and environmentally friendly protocol for the synthesis of polysubstituted tetrahydrofurans from trivial starting materials has been described. By employing 2,2,2-trifluoroacetophenone-mediated oxidation, which utilizes H2O2 as a green oxidant, we introduce a sustainable procedure that embraces the principles of green chemistry for the production of substituted tetrahyd...

Green tea has been shown to inhibit Cu(2+)-induced LDL oxidation and suppress lipoxygenase activity. Since LDL oxidation is a characteristic feature of atherogenesis and lipoxygenase is involved in the disease process, the effect of Lung Chen Tea, a non-fermented Chinese green tea, on LDL oxidation induced by human umbilical cord vascular endothelial cell was investigated in the present study. ...

Tea is the most popularly consumed beverage worldwide, also was popular in Indonesia. There are three main types of tea: black tea, green tea and Oolong tea. Oolong tea is produced by a partial oxidation of the leaf, intermediate between the process for green and black tea. Most of people in the world consume Black tea. The possible beneficial health effects of tea are being investigated and ha...

a mild, efficient and fast method for the oxidation of alcohols and trimethylsilyl, tetrahydropyranyl and methoxymethyl ethers to their corresponding carbonyl compounds using cro3 in the presence of rice husk ash (rha) is reported. all reactions were performed at room temperature in high to excellent yields. a new, efficient and green catalyst, heterogeneous reaction conditions, easy work-up of...

A mild, efficient and fast method for the oxidation of alcohols and trimethylsilyl, tetrahydropyranyl and methoxymethyl ethers to their corresponding carbonyl compounds using CrO3 in the presence of rice husk ash (RHA) is reported. All reactions were performed at room temperature in high to excellent yields. A new, efficient and green catalyst, heterogeneous reaction conditions, easy work-up of...

Cellulose sulfuric acid as a bio-polymer based solid catalyst efficiently catalyzes the selectively oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides and thiols to disulfides using hydrogen peroxide as a green oxidant with good yields at room temperature. The developed method offers a number of advantages such as high selectivity, mild reaction conditions, simple operation, cleaner reaction profiles, low...

well faceted cuo nanoparticles, were synthesized by thermal-assisted dissociation method at reflux temperature in a short period of time. a possible mechanism for synthesis of such highly pure and stable nanoparticles is tentatively proposed by ft-ir study. the large surface area and rich exposed active sites are expected to endow such nanoparticles with excellent performances in catalysis as d...

The suitability of hemp fibres as green support material for immobilization of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans cells in ferrous iron bio-oxidation process was investigated. A series of experiments were carried out in shake flasks and bioreactor for both cell immobilization and iron bio-oxidation. In flask experiments, five successive batch colonization cycles resulted in 6-fold increase...