The theory and results of solvent structure control on solute behavior for ordinary chemical reactions, generated in other laboratories (e.g. by Arnett and colleagues), were applied to enzyme reactions in water-organic cosolvent binary mixtures. Three kinds of reactions were studied: (a) catalysis of substrate reactions; (b) denaturation, judged by loss of overall activity; (c) renaturation, ai...

In this paper we report classical Molecular Dynamics and ab initio Density Functional Theory simulations of the structure single particle dynamics ternary mixtures a protic (ethylammonium nitrate, EAN) an aprotic (1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, EMIMBF4) ionic liquid, lithium salts with common anion molecular cosolvent, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). The coordination numbers electric...

Supercritical fluids have found applications in a wide variety of fields, from solvents for reaction media to engineering of nanoparticles. They are also of interest in the analytical field for transferring non-volatile organic molecules into the gas phase for detection and deposition purposes. This work highlights the use of supercritical fluids as an analytical tool for the transfer of a grou...

Why reaction rate constants for enzymatic reactions are typically inversely proportional to fractional power exponents of solvent viscosity remains to be already a thirty years old puzzle. Available interpretations of the phenomenon have not led to consensus among researches about its origin. They invoke to either a modification of 1. the conventional Kramers’ theory or that of 2. the Stokes la...

Title of Document: CO-SOLVENT ASSISTED SPRAY PYROLYSIS FOR THE PREPARATION OF METAL MICROPARTILCE. Kai Zhong, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed By: Professor Sheryl H. Ehrman, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Metal and bimetallic particles play an important role in catalytic, medical and electronic applications. Various techniques have been developed for the preparation of ...

The development of the multivalent electrolytes is a critical component to advance polyvalent energy storage technology. In this work, new and simple nonaqueous zinc electrolyte developed investigated where secondary amine introduced as cosolvent. addition dimethylamine (DMA) cosolvent in THF facilitates solubilization Zinc (II) bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imde (Zn(TFSI) 2 ) results homogeneou...

Amines such as 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline undergo redox-neutral annulations with 2-alkylquinoline-3-carbaldehydes as well as the corresponding 4-alkyl isomers and pyridine analogues. These processes involve dual C-H bond functionalization. Acetic acid is used as a cosolvent and acts as the sole promoter of these transformations.

A new "dual-mode" chromogenic and fluorescent turn-on probe (2) for the selective sensing of biological thiols is reported. In MeOH-H(2)O cosolvent at physiological pH 7.40 (MeOH-H(2)O = 3:7), biological thiols cleave the 2,4-dinitrobenzenesulfonyl group to release the chromo- and fluorophore merocyanine (3).

By using a cosolvent self-assembly approach, the emission of multi-micelle aggregates from star copolymer unimolecular micelles is enhanced greatly through restriction of concentration self-quenching and intermolecular aggregation of a conjugated polymer core, due to the existence of a PEG shell of HCP-star-PEG unimolecular micelles.

A novel physical (non-reactive) separation of cellulose from an ionic liquid (IL)/cosolvent mixture by compressed carbon dioxide is presented. The precipitation is completely reversible and rapid within small changes of pressure i.e. liquid phase CO2 composition. High pressure phase equilibrium, high pressure NMR, and solid state NMR have been utilized to understand the separation phenomena.