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Tetrahydrofuran

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New Polymers from Biomass-Derived Hydroxycinnamic Acid Derivatives

Ghezae Tekleab

Polymers play a central role in shaping our world across various fields, but their heavy reliance on petrochemicals poses climate change, environmental and health risks. To address and alleviate these issues, transitioning to sustainable polymers, sourced ...

EPFL2024

A Simple, Transition Metal Catalyst-Free Method for the Design of Complex Organic Building Blocks Used to Construct Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks

Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jordi Espin Marti, Anita Justin, Jocelyn Richard Roth, Nazanin Taheri

The design of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) having large pore sizes and volumes often requires the use of complex organic ligands, currently synthesized using costly and time-consuming palladium-catalyzed coupling chemistry. Thus, in the present work, a ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Stability and Reactivity of a Polyoxymethylene Dimethyl Ether over Typical Catalysts for Diesel Emission Control

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri

Polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OME) produced from methanol are considered as potential substitutes of Diesel fuel. Emissions of formaldehyde and other components have been observed, particularly under cold-start conditions in engine test-bench experimen ...

SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS2023

Diformylxylose as a new polar aprotic solvent produced from renewable biomass

Jeremy Luterbacher, Anastasiia Komarova, Graham Reid Dick

Lignin is a promising candidate for the replacement of fossil-based materials, due to its natural abundance and aromatic structure. This same structure poses major challenges to lignin's exploitation for material development. The harsh conditions generally ...

2021

C-H Bond Activation by an Isolated Dinuclear U(III)/U(IV) Nitride

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Ivica Zivkovic, Chad Thomas Palumbo

Synthetic studies of bimetallic uranium nitride complexes with the N(SiMe3)(2) ligand have generated a new nitride complex of U(III), which is highly reactive toward C-H bonds and H-2. Treatment of the previously reported U(IV)/U(IV) nitride complex [Na(DM ...

2020

Functional and Responsive Polymers via Controlled Radical Polymerization

Jian Wang

This Thesis is built around 4 topics, which share in common that they all take advantage of the assets of controlled radical polymerization to either (i) prepare well-defined model systems to address fundamental research questions with regard to the sensit ...

EPFL2020

Effect of surface modification of colloidal silica nanoparticles on the rigid amorphous fraction and mechanical properties of amorphous polyurethane-urea-silica nanocomposites

John Christopher Plummer, Nicolas Candau, Oguzhan Oguz

Colloidal silica nanoparticles (NPs) modified with eight different silane coupling agents were incorporated into an amorphous poly(tetramethylene oxide)-based polyurethane-urea copolymer matrix at a concentration of 10 wt % (4.4 vol %) in order to investig ...

2019

Protection Group Effects During α,γ-Diol Lignin Stabilization Promote High-Selectivity Monomer Production

Jeremy Luterbacher, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Wu Lan, Christopher Marc Hunston

Protection groups were introduced during biomass pretreatment to stabilize lignin's α,γ-diol group during its extraction and prevent its condensation. Acetaldehyde and propionaldehyde stabilized the α,γ-diol without any aromatic ring alkylation, which sign ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Aqueous-phase hydrogenation of alkenes and arenes: The growing role of nano scale catalysts

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan, Safak Bulut, Sviatlana Siankevich

In this article we highlight some of the recent developments in the aqueous-phase hydrogenation of alkenes and arenes. The traditional types of water-soluble catalysts applied in aqueous media are outlined together with recent trends towards the developmen ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Massively parallel molecular dynamics simulation of formation of clathrate-hydrate precursors at planar water-methane interfaces: Insights into heterogeneous nucleation

Simone Meloni

The formation of methane-hydrate precursors at large planar water-methane interfaces has been studied using massively parallel molecular dynamics in systems of varying size from around 10 000 to almost 7 x 10(6) molecules. This process took two distinct st ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Pd(0)-Catalyzed Alkene Oxy- and Aminoalkynylation with Aliphatic Bromoacetylenes

Jérôme Waser, Stefano Nicolai, Raha Sedigh-Zadeh

Tetrahydrofurans and pyrrolidines are among the most important heterocycles found in bioactive compounds. Cyclization-functionalization domino reactions of alcohols or amines onto olefins,constitute one of the most efficient methods to access them. In this ...

American Chemical Society2013

Cross coupling of non-activated alkyl halides with alkynyl Grignard reagents catalyzed by a well-defined Ni pincer complex

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Oleg Vechorkin, Aurélien Godinat

The nickel pincer complex 1 catalyzes the cross-coupling of the title compounds with remarkable substrate scope and functional group tolerance. A nickel/alkynyl species was isolated and shown to be catalytically competent. THF=tetrahydrofuran, O-TMEDA=bis[ ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2011

Relative Basicities of ortho-, meta-, and para-Substituted Aryllithiums

The relative basicities of aryllithiums bearing methoxy, chlorine, fluorine, trifluoromethyl and trifluoromethoxy substituents at the ortho, meta, and para positions have been assessed. To this end, two aryllithiums of comparable basicity were equilibrated ...

2009

Substituent Effect on the Meso-Substituted Porphyrins: Theoretical Screening of Sensitizer Candidates for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

According to the concepts of attribute axis and attribute coordinate system, porphine and 11 kinds of bridge carbon substituted porphyrins as donors and 9 common acceptors A-I have been designed and calculated at the density functional B3LYP level. The sub ...

2009

Chasing an Elusive Alkoxide: Attempts to Synthesize [OC(tBu)(CF3)2]−

Rosario Scopelliti

The synthesis of the alkoxide [OC(tBu)(CF3)2]− by the reaction of tBuM-reagents (M = Li; MgX) with hexafluoroacetone was attempted. This alkoxide was anticipated to be a good building block for novel weakly coordinating anions. However, in all attempted sy ...

2006

Promoting or preventing haloaryllithium isomerizations: differential basicities and solvent effects as the crucial variables

Christophe Heiss, Thierry Rausis

Deprotonation-triggered heavy halogen migrations should become a favorite tool in arene synthesis if their occurrence and outcome could be made predictable. Particularly attractive, though extremely rare, are stop-and-go situations where a first intermedia ...

Georg Thieme Verlag2005

NMR, PGSE diffusion, and X-ray diffraction studies of lithium and potassium salts derived from diphenylphosphino(o-cyanophenyl)aniline and their crown ether complexes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei

H-1, P-31, and Li-7 pulsed-gradient spin-echo (PGSE) diffusion and variable-temperature NMR results for THF solutions of the lithium and potassium salts derived from diphenylphosphino(o-cyanophenyl)aniline are reported and compared to the solid-state resul ...

2005

Hydrogenation and hydroformylation in ionic liquids, water and biphasic systems

Christian Ohlin

This work covers homogeneous and biphasic catalysis in ionic liquids and water. The work presented herein is divided into two major parts: catalytic hydrogenation and catalytic hydroformylation. The first part also serves as an introduction to catalysis in ...

EPFL2004

Fluorine-substituted aryllithiums : basicity, nucleophilicity and synthetic potential

Joanna Kobylinska

Among other things, the present thesis work aimed at a rational and maximal structure proliferation. Simple arenes or heteroarenes were functionalized regioselectively through organometallic intermediates, which then may be combined with any electrophile t ...

EPFL2004