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Direct amidation of esters with nitroarenes

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung, Marten Leendert Ploeger

Esters are one of the most common functional groups in natural and synthetic products, and the one-step conversion of the ester group into other functional groups is an attractive strategy in organic synthesis. Direct amidation of esters is particularly ap ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Transatlantic Patterns of Risk Regulation: Implications for International Trade and Cooperation

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This report presents a study commissioned by the European Parliament to compare regulatory standards in the EU and the US in four key sectors (food safety, automobiles, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals), chosen for their relevance both to consumer protection ...

International Risk Governance Council2017

Phytoremediation of soils contaminated by organic compounds: hype, hope and facts

Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel

The present opinion paper is focused on the phytoremediation of organic pollutants and is based on the lectures given by the author during the International Congress of Phytoremediation of Polluted Soils, held at Vigo, Spain, 29-30 July 2014. The aim of th ...

Springer Verlag2017

Exploring biochemical pathways for mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) synthesis from synthesis gas

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi

Mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) is an important petrochemical with widespread use in numerous consumer products. The current industrial MEG-production process relies on non-renewable fossil fuel-based feedstocks, such as petroleum, natural gas, and naphtha; hen ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2017

Virtual Sector Profiles for Innovation Sharing in Process Industry – Sector 01: Chemicals

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Elfie Marie Méchaussie

Production data in process industry are proprietary to a company since they are key to the process design and technology expertise. However, data confidentiality restrains industry from sharing results and advancing developments in and across process secto ...

Springer International Publishing2017

On the functional group composition of organic aerosol

Giulia Ruggeri

Atmospheric aerosol is ubiquitous and its impact on climate and health has not been fully understood yet. Multiple diverse processes and sources lead to atmospheric aerosol formation and emission and this reflects on its heterogeneity in chemical compositi ...

EPFL2017