Dilute sulfuric acid pretreatment of corn stover at high solids concentrations

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - The enzymatic digestibility of a pretreated substrate is enhanced by increasing the severity of the pretreatment conditions, apparently because a greater...     

Towards the synthesis of insulated oligoynes: A ring-closing-metathesis approach to molecular encapsulation

Masked hexayne 18 was prepared in 11 steps from commercially available reagents. The four butenyl substituents contained within the two arylsilane residues in 18 have been used in a double ring-closing-metathesis operation in an attempt to encapsulate the π-conjugated framework. When 18 was treated with Grubbs’ 1st generation metathesis catalyst however, double ring-closing metathesis provided macrocycle 19 as the major product in good yield. Reasons why the macrocycle in 19 crowns, rather than encapsulates, the π-conjugated framework are discussed.     

Synthesis of new polymetallic carbene complexes: Uracil analogs

The easy cycloaddition of ureas with alkynyl alkoxy biscarbene complexes afforded, in fairly good yields, new biscarbene uracil analogs. X-ray structural data is reported for the dimethyluracil biscarbene complex. By changing the reaction conditions, a new non symmetric complex was obtained whose reaction with ethylenediamine afforded a new tetrakis amino carbene complex.     

Carbon dioxide reduction under visible light: a comparison of cadmium sulfide and titania photocatalysts

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Selective Hofmann alkylation of aromatic-aliphatic diamines in the presence of carbon dioxide

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手性叠氮呋喃酮及其三唑类化合物的合成

合成了手性叠氮2(5H)-呋喃酮化合物(3a～3d);3b与含活泼亚甲基化合物发生偶极环加成反应,合成了带手性丁烯内酯的1,2,3-三唑化合物(8b和8b)。3,7和8的结构经1HNMR,13CNMR,IR和HR-MS表征。探讨了合成反应的机理。     

Overwhelming electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction of zinc-nitrogen-carbon from biomass resource chitosan via a facile carbon bath method

Developing high efficiency and low cost electrocatalysts is critical for the enhancement of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), which is the fundamental for the development and commercialization of renewable energy conversion technology. Herein, zinc-nitrogen-carbon (Zn-N-C) was prepared by using biomass resource chitosan via a facile carbon bath method. The obtained Zn-N-C delivered a high specific surface area (794.7 cm²/g) together with pore volume (0.49 cm³/g). During the electrochemical evaluation of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), Zn-N-C displayed high activity for ORR with an onset potential E₀ = 0.96 V_RHE and a half wave potential E_1/2 = 0.86 V_RHE, which were more positive than those of the commercial 20 wt% Pt/C benchmark catalyst (E₀ = 0.96 V_RHE and E_1/2 = 0.81 V_RHE). In addition, the Zn-N-C catalyst also had a better stability and methanol tolerance than those of the Pt/C catalyst.     

Effect of reduction temperature on a spray-dried iron-based catalyst for slurry Fischer–Tropsch synthesis

An industrial iron-based catalyst (100Fe/5Cu/6K/16SiO₂, by weight) was characterized after reduction at different temperatures and after Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (FTS) in a stirred tank slurry reactor (STSR). The BET surface area and pore volume of the catalyst decreases with increasing reduction temperature, and the contrary trend was found for pore size. The iron phase compositions of catalysts reduced with syngas were strongly dependent on pretreatment conditions employed. Pretreatment with syngas at lower temperature prevents iron catalyst activation. Carburization was intensified with the increase in reduction temperature. The formation of iron carbides in reduced catalyst was necessary for obtaining stable high FTS activity. The relationship between the amount of CO₂ in tail gas during activation and the Fe³⁺ (spm) content in the reduced catalyst was observed. The rapid carburization at high reduction temperature resulted in the formation of a superparamagnetic Fe³⁺ core and an iron carbide layer of the reduced catalyst. FTS activity decreased with the increase in the reduction temperature, but the stability distinctly improved. It was found that the working catalyst loss in the heavier waxy products resulted in higher deactivation rate of the catalyst reduced at lower temperature. With the increase in the reduction temperature, the product distribution shifted towards the lower molecular weight products.     

Cu-Zr-Ce-O催化剂上CO选择性氧化及再生研究

采用共沉淀法制备了一系列Cu-Zr-Ce-O复合氧化物催化剂，考察了ZrO2加入量、不同再生方法对催化剂CO选择性氧化反应性能的影响，并通过DSC-TPR、XRD和SEM手段对催化剂进行了表征。结果表明，添加ZrO2的Cu1Zr1Ce9Oδ催化剂在160 ℃～200 ℃，具有99％以上的CO转化率，并且催化剂的选择性相对较高。适量ZrO2的加入能够细化催化剂的颗粒，提高催化剂的热稳定性，改变催化剂的聚结方式。经氮气、氢气及氧气再生处理后的Cu1Zr1Ce9Oδ催化剂，催化活性有所不同，其中经氧气处理后的催化剂，表面吸附氧体积分数较高，活性恢复较好。