Publications related to Aliphatic compound

Near-Room-Temperature Detection of Aromatic Compounds with Inkjet-Printed Plasticized Polymer Composites

Jürgen Brugger, Thomas Maeder, Mohammadmahdi Kiaee

Chemiresistive gas sensors composed of a thermoplastic polymer matrix and conductive fillers offer various advantages for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including low power consumption due to near-room-temperature operation, high sensitivity, ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Ni-Based Nanoparticles Catalyzed Hydrodeoxygenation of Ketones, Ethers, and Phenols to (Cyclo) Aliphatic Compounds

Paul Joseph Dyson, Mingyang Liu, Xiang Li, Yelin Hu, Matthias Beller

Catalytic hydrodeoxygenation is of prime importance in the valorization of biomass-based feedstocks to produce essential chemicals and fuels. To carry out this process in a more cost-effective and sustainable manner, the use of 3D-metal-based nanostructure ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Photodegradation of biodegradable plastics in aquatic environments: Current understanding and challenges

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Vinhteang Kaing

Direct photolysis and indirect photolysis are important abiotic processes in aquatic environments through which plastics can be transformed physically and chemically. Transport of biodegradable plastics in water is influenced by vertical mixing and turbule ...

2023

Ozonation of organic compounds in water and wastewater: A critical review

Urs von Gunten, Sung Eun Lim

Ozonation has been applied in water treatment for more than a century, first for disinfection, later for oxidation of inorganic and organic pollutants. In recent years, ozone has been increasingly applied for enhanced municipal wastewater treatment for eco ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Enantio- and diastereoselective construction of vicinal C(sp(3)) centres via nickel-catalysed hydroalkylation of alkenes

Xile Hu, Chao Fan, Srikrishna Bera

In drug discovery, the proportion of aliphatic carbons (C(sp(3))) and the presence of chiral carbons in organic molecules are positively correlated to their chance of clinical success. Although methods exist for the synthesis of chiral C(sp(3))-rich molecu ...

2022

Hydrogenation of a Benzene-Toluene Mixture Using Metal Nanoparticles Stabilized by a Hyper-Crosslinked Aromatic Polymer

Lioubov Kiwi

Hydrogenation of aromatic compounds is a widely used catalytic process in modern industry. Selective hydrogenation of benzene (BZ)-toluene (TL) mixtures is an important industrial process as it allows the purification of BZ for further synthetic purposes. ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Branched Methoxydiphenylamine-Substituted Carbazole Derivatives for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells: Bigger Is Not Always Better

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yi Zhang, Jianxing Xia, Kasparas Rakstys, Hiroyuki Kanda

A set of novel branched molecules bearing a different number of 3,6-bis(4,4'-dimethoxydiphenylamino)carbazole-based (CzOMeDPA) periphery arms linked together by aliphatic chains have been developed, and their performance has been tested in perovskite solar ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Quantifying organic matter and functional groups in particulate matter filter samples from the southeastern United States - Part 2: Spatiotemporal trends

Satoshi Takahama

Organic species within atmospheric particles vary widely in molecular structure. The variety of molecules that comprise the aerosol make it rich in information about its sources and chemical life cycle but also make particulate organic matter (OM) difficul ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2021

Vinyl and Alkynyl Triazenes: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Applications

Kay Severin, Abdusalom Suleymanov

Aromatic compounds containing triazenyl groups (N3RR′) have a profound impact on synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry. In contrast, the chemistry of vinyl and alkynyl triazenes was a largely uncharted territory until recently. The situation has change ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Dynamic Modeling and Control of a Coupled Reforming/Combustor System for the Production of H2 via Hydrocarbon-Based Fuels

Theodoros Damartzis

The present work aims to provide insights into the dynamic operation of a coupled reformer/combustion unit that can utilize a variety of saturated hydrocarbons (HCs) with 1–4 C atoms towards H2 production (along with CO2). Within this concept, a preselecte ...

2020

NOVEL TRIAZENES AND SOLID STATE LUMINOGENS

Abdusalom Suleymanov

Triazenes are very useful compounds in organic synthesis, materials science, and medicine. Among numerous reported triazene derivatives, aryl triazenes are the most investigated. Triazenes with alkynyl, vinyl, and alkyl groups were, until recently, largely ...

EPFL2020

Azide Radical Initiated Ring Opening of Cyclopropenes Leading to Alkenyl Nitriles and Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds

Jérôme Waser, Bastian Antoine Rodolphe Claude Muriel

We report herein a radical‐mediated amination of cyclopropenes. The transformation proceeds through a cleavage of the three‐membered ring after the addition of an azide radical on the strained double bond and leads to tetrasubstituted alkenyl nitrile deriv ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Metal Soap Membranes for Gas Separation

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Jian Hao, Davide Campi, Deepu Joseph Babu, Qi Liu

Metal soaps or metal alkanoates are metal-organic complexes held together with metal cations and the functional groups of hydrocarbon chains. They can be synthesized at a high yield by simply mixing the metal and organic sources, forming crystalline framew ...

2020

Anhydrous Conditions Enable the Catalyst-Free Carboxylation of Aromatic Alkynes with CO2 under Mild Conditions

Paul Joseph Dyson, Marinella Mazzanti, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Davide Toniolo

The direct carboxylation of aromatic alkynes with CO2, a cheap and widely available C1 source, is the most attractive method for the synthesis of carboxylic acids. Here we show that direct carboxylation of terminal alkynes can be simply performed in near-q ...

2020

Emissions of volatile organic compounds from interior materials of vehicles

Dusan Licina, Shen Yang

People spend a substantial amount of daily time in vehicle environments being exposed to variety of airborne chemicals. High concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) inside vehicle cabins have been of increasing concern owing to various health r ...

2020

Catalytic Upgrading of Biomass-Derived Carboxylic Acids to Fuels and Chemicals

Jher Hau Yeap

Our reliance on fossil fuels, which is unsustainable due to dwindling reserves, has led to various environmental issues. Lignocellulosic biomass could serve as a renewable source of carbon and energy for the production of fuels and chemicals. While several ...

EPFL2019

The role of malachite nanorods for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to C-2 hydrocarbons

Andreas Züttel, Emad Oveisi, Jie Zhang, Kun Zhao, Mariana Spodaryk

The electrochemical reduction of CO2 to higher hydrocarbons is a very challenging process that has high potential for the storage of large amounts of renewable energy with a high gravimetric and volumetric energy density. The distribution of hydrocarbons f ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Crossed Molecular Beams and Theoretical Studies of the O(P-3)+1,2-Butadiene Reaction: Dominant Formation of Propene plus CO and Ethylidene plus Ketene Molecular Channels

Silvia Tanteri, Adriana Caracciolo

Detailed understanding of the mechanism of the combustion relevant multichannel reactions of O(P-3) with unsaturated hydrocarbons (UHs) requires the identification of all primary reaction products, the determination of their branching ratios and assessment ...

CHINESE PHYSICAL SOC2019

Reactions of aliphatic amines with ozone: Kinetics and mechanisms

Urs von Gunten, Sung Eun Lim

Aliphatic amines are common constituents in micropollutants and dissolved organic matter and present in elevated concentrations in wastewater-impacted source waters. Due to high reactivity, reactions of aliphatic amines with ozone are likely to occur durin ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Photoredox-Catalyzed Decarboxylation for the Transfer of Alkynes and Nitriles Using Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

Franck Le Vaillant

Aliphatic alkynes and nitriles are privileged motifs in organic chemistry. Therefore, alkynes and nitriles have played a central role for the exploration and development of novel strategies to forge C-C bonds in efficient manner. They are broadly used as v ...

EPFL2019