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Amine oxide

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Oxidative rearrangement of 1,1-disubstituted alkenes to ketones

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Qiang Feng

The Wacker process, which is widely used to convert monosubstituted alkenes into the corresponding methyl ketones, is thought to proceed through a PdII/Pd0 catalytic cycle involving a b-hydride elimination step. This mechanistic scenario is inapplicable to ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Diverting the 5-exo-Trig Oxypalladation to Formally 6-endo-Trig Fluorocycloetherification Product through 1,2-O/Pd(IV) Dyotropic Rearrangement

Jieping Zhu, Qian Wang, Jing Gong, Jing Gong

Pd-catalyzed cyclizative functionalization of γ-hydroxyalkenes affords tetrahydrofuran derivatives via a key 5-exo-trig oxypalladation step. Herein, we report a palladium(II)-catalyzed, Selectfluor-mediated formal 6-endo-trig fluorocycloetherification of γ ...

2023

Using Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage and Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells for Electricity Production

Youngdon Ko

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 ...

EPFL2023

Enhanced Treatment of Municipal Wastewater Effluents by Fe-TAML/H2O2: Efficiency of Micropollutant Abatement

Urs von Gunten

Combining iron with a tetraamido-macrocyclic ligand (Fe-TAML) as a catalyst and with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as the bulk oxidant is a process that has been suggested for the oxidative abatement of micropollutants during water treatment. In this study, the ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Reactions of nitrogen-containing compounds with ozone: kinetics and mechanisms

Sung Eun Lim

Nitrogen-containing moieties are widespread in natural waters in dissolved organic nitrogen and micropollu-tants. They are often susceptible to an electrophilic attack of ozone because of the electron-rich nature of the neutral form of nitrogen in organic ...

EPFL2020

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

Analysis of hydrogen distribution and migration in fired passivating contacts (FPC)

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Matthieu Despeisse, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Andrea Ingenito, Mario Joe Lehmann, Philippe Wyss

High temperature passivating contacts for c-Si based solar cells are intensively studied because of their potential in boosting solar cell efficiency while being compatible with industrial processes at high temperatures. In this work, the hydrogenation mec ...

2019

Specific and total N -nitrosamines formation potentials of nitrogenous micropollutants during chloramination

Urs von Gunten, Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Caroline Gachet Aquillon

N-nitrosamines are a group of potent human carcinogens that can be formed during oxidative treatment of drinking water and wastewater. Many tertiary and quaternary amines present in consumer products (e.g., pharmaceuticals, personal care and household prod ...

2018

In situ tether formation from amines and alcohols enabling highly selective Tsuji-Trost allylation and olefin functionalization

Jérôme Waser, Ugo Jonathan Orcel

The use of tethers allows to overcome reactivity and selectivity issues often encountered with intermolecular reactions. Although tethers have been successfully applied for decades, their installation and removal usually requires additional steps. This min ...

2017

Efficiency of SPIONs functionalized with polyethylene glycol bis (amine) for heavy metal removal

Heinrich Hofmann

Hybrid magnetic nanoparticles based on poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) and super-paramagnetic iron oxide nanopaticles (SPIONs) with selective surface modification has been developed for heavy metal removal by applying external magnetic fields. The nanopart ...

Elsevier2016

Reaction dynamics of in aqueous amines from ab initio molecular dynamics: 2-amino-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol (AMPD) compared to monoethanolamine (MEA)

Wanda Andreoni, Fabio Pietrucci, Changru Ma

We present Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics simulations-combined with metadynamics-of the reactions accompanying the capture of in an aqueous amine solution. The selected amine is 2-amino-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol, which has been investigated experimentall ...

Springer2016

Iron-oxides and iron-citrate as new photocatalysts in solar inactivation of Escherichia coli in water : mechanistic aspects

Cristina del Socorro Lonfat

This study addresses the bacterial inactivation mechanism by photo-Fenton process at near-neutral pH, focusing on iron-oxides and iron-citrate as photocatalysts for solar water disinfection and using E. coli as a bacteria model. Cell envelope damage during ...

EPFL2015

Base-Catalyzed Intramolecular Hydroamination of Cyclohexa-2,5-dienes: Insights into the Mechanism through DFT Calculations and Application to the Total Synthesis of epi-Elwesine

Kurt Schenk

The base-catalyzed intramolecular hydroamination of 1-ethylaminocyclohexa-2,5-dienes is described. The transformation proceeds through isomerization of the cyclohexa-1,4-dienyl fragment into the corresponding conjugated 1,3-diene prior to the hydroaminatio ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Band offsets at Ge/GeO2 interfaces: Effect of different interfacial bonding patterns

Alfredo Pasquarello, Peter Broqvist, Jan Felix Binder

Using hybrid density functional calculations, we investigate possible origins for the large variation of band offsets measured at Ge/GeO2 interfaces. We consider atomistic model interfaces with both amorphous and crystalline oxides, in which the bond densi ...

Elsevier2011

Chemosensors Based on Metal-Dye Complexes for Bioanalytes

Friederike Gundula Marie Zaubitzer

Multicomponent chemosensors were prepared by mixing the rhodium(III) complex [(η5-C5Me5)RhCl 2]2, nickel(II) chloride and/or copper(II) chloride with commercially available dyes in buffered aqueous solution. The sensors were used to detect various biomolec ...

EPFL2010

Charge transition levels of nitrogen dangling bonds at Si/SiO2 interfaces: A first-principles study

Alfredo Pasquarello, Peter Broqvist

The defect levels of the nitrogen dangling bond at the Si/SiO2 interface are determined through a density-functional approach. The composition grading at the interface is modeled through crystalline and amorphous models of stoichiometric SiO2, nitrided SiO ...

2010

Transient kinetics and in situ spectroscopic techniques for the characterisation of V/Ti-oxide catalysts in toluene partial oxidation

Fabio Rainone

Development of selective oxidation catalysts is a major concern of modern chemical industry. Among several systems, VTi-oxide based catalysts showed the most promising and versatile, able to catalyse key reactions like oxidation of o-xylene to phtalic anhy ...

EPFL2004