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We report the fabrication of spherical superstructures composed of SiO2 and TiO2 nanoparticles and their applications in catalyzing organic reactions. Assembling of the nanoparticles into superstructures is done by heating a water-in-oil micro-emulsion, wh ...
Catalysis fulfills the promise that high-yielding chemical transformations will require little energy and produce no toxic waste. This message is carried by the study of the evolution of molecular catalysis of some of the most important reactions in organi ...
Aqueous electrophilic reactions are broadly important in environmental chemistry, but the thermodynamic equilibrium constants, rate constants, and mechanisms describing these reactions are often difficult to determine by experiment. Here we report on our e ...
Bromide (Br-) is present in all water sources at concentrations ranging from similar to 10 to >1000 mu g L-1 in fresh waters and about 67 mg L-1 in seawater. During oxidative water treatment bromide is oxidized to hypobromous acid/hypobromite (HOBr/OBr-) a ...
In water treatment dissolved organic matter (DOM) is typically the major sink for chemical oxidants. The resulting changes in DOM, such as its optical properties have been measured to follow the oxidation processes. However, such measurements contain only ...
Numerous inorganic and organic micropollutants can undergo reactions with chlorine. However, for certain compounds, the expected chlorine reactivity is low and only small modifications in the parent compound's structure are expected under typical water tre ...
The acid-catalyzed cyclization-condensation between anilines and Et 4,4,4-trifluoroacetoacetate affords 1,4-dihydro-2-trifluoromethyl-4H-4-quinolinones, which can easily be converted into 4-bromo-2-(trifluoromethyl)quinolines. These undergo halogen/metal e ...
Oxidation of the antimicrobial agent triclosan by aqueous ozone (O-3) was investigated to determine associated reaction kinetics, reaction site(s), and consequent changes in antibacterial activity of triclosan. Specific second-order rate constants, k(O3), ...
To demonstrate the superiority of modern organometallic methods, the inexpensive starting material 1,3-difluorobenzene has been selectively converted into the three benzoic acids and all seven bromobenzoic acids contg. the two fluorine atoms in homovicinal ...
The addition of one equivalent of 2-nitrobenzenesulfenyl chloride to 1-(dimethoxymethyl)-2,3,5,6-tetramethylidene-7-oxabicyclo[2.2. 1]heptane (4) is highly regioselective giving 2-(chloromethyl)-1-(dimethoxymethyl)-5,6-dimethylidene-3 -[(-2-nitrophenylthio ...