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Sodium borohydride
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New Applications of 1,3,2-Diazaphospholenes in Catalysis
The constant urge to construct new molecules in an economical and sustainable fashion led to the development of numerous metal-catalyzed transformations. Organocatalysts consisting of abundant and more sustainable elements offer an elegant solution to over ...
EPFL2024Using Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage and Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells for Electricity Production
Hydrogen storage and utilization are the technologies to achieve carbon-neutral energy systems with renewable energy sources. Among the various materials that have been investigated, complex hydrides are a material exhibiting high gravimetric hydrogen dens ...
EPFL2023TiCl3-Mediated Reductive Cyclization of Tetrasubstituted Alkenes and Enol Esters Bearing a 2-Nitrophenyl Substituent
Indole is one of the most important heterocycles widely present in bioactive natural products, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and materials. Being easily accessible, the 2-nitrostyrenes are attractive starting materials for the indole synthesis and the Cad ...
EPFL2023Organocatalytic Enantioselective Diels-Alder Reaction of 2-Trifluoroacetamido-1,3-dienes with alpha,beta-Unsaturated Ketones
Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Xinqi Zhu
We report herein the first examples of chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed enantioselective Diels-Alder reactions between 2-trifluoroacetamido-1,3-dienes 1 and alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl compounds 2. Polysubstituted 1-acetamido cyclohexenes 3 were formed ...
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022Effect of Co-Substitution on Hydrogen Absorption and Desorption Reactions of YMgNi4-Based Alloys
Andreas Züttel, Wen Luo, Heena Yang
YMgNi4-based alloys exhibit reversible hydrogen absorption and desorption reactions at near room temperature. Here, we report that Co-substituted YMgNi4-based alloys exhibited higher hydrogen contents and lower hydrogen absorption and desorption reaction p ...
AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022Nitriles as main products from the oxidation of primary amines by ferrate (VI): Kinetics, mechanisms and toxicological implications for nitrogenous disinfection byproduct control
Woongbae Lee, Yun Ho Lee, Jaedon Shin
Ferrate (Fe(VI)), a promising water treatment oxidant, can be used for micropollutant abatement or disinfection byproduct mitigation. However, knowledge gaps remain concerning the interaction between Fe(VI) and dissolved organic matter structures, notably ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022Catalytic enantioselective Pictet-Spengler reaction of carbonyl compounds: Development and application to the asymmetric total synthesis of indole alkaloids
This thesis consists in an extensive study about the enantioselective Pictet-Spengler reaction (EPSR) and its application to the total synthesis of monoterpene indole alkaloids (MIAs). The general introduction presents the literature background about this ...
EPFL2022Reactions of alpha,beta-Unsaturated Carbonyls with Free Chlorine, Free Bromine, and Combined Chlorine
Chemical disinfectants employed in water and wastewater treatment can produce a variety of transformation products, including carbonyl compounds (e.g., saturated and unsaturated aldehydes and ketones). Experiments conducted under conditions relevant to chl ...
AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021Solvent- and Catalyst-Free Carbon Dioxide Capture and Reduction to Formate with Borohydride Ionic Liquid
Paul Joseph Dyson, Kun Zhao, Heena Yang
The Cover Feature shows the application of a pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquid with a borohydride anion to simultaneously capture and reduce large amounts of CO2. The ionic liquid cation interacts with CO2, allowing the borohydride to fix and reduce it to t ...
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020