Research and Practice in Green Chemical Technologies

Green chemistry is also called environment harmless or environment friendly chemistry.Green chemistry requires to use new synthetic methods, engineering technologies and processes to eliminate or reduce by-products, wastes or products that harmful to human health, community safety,and ecology environment. Green chemistry pursues to control the usage of the harmful and toxic materials, reduce waste emission, avoid necessity to treat the wastes; Green Chemistry advocates wastes management from the beginning, improving the efficiency of atoms, optimizing the use of resources and energy, lowering the cost of production. Green Chemistry technologies are the ultimate path to the clean chemical production in the future.Insight Co. takes "hospital of enterprises" and "bank of technologies" as our characteristics in business, and deems the development and spread of green chemistry as our mission. We developed an unique business model which combines education, research and production. In the past 8 years,we had applied and obtained more than 30 patents and received more than ten national and provincial awards in technology progress.We had made great progress in the manufacturing of organophosphorus pesticides, especially the production of omethoate, methamidophos, paraquat and glycyrrhizinic phosphor, etc., which made a stable foundation for INSIGHT's development. We had also achieved great success in the high efficiency low toxic pesticides, such as imidacloprid, etofenprox, metalaxyl and in the new synthetic methods in various amino acids as well as in the pharmaceutical intermediates. The new method of preparation indigo using N-phenylglycinonitrile is an advanced process in the world in terms of the clean production technology for Ferro cyanide and HCN's transformation rate improvement. We solved the pollution problem of the old route. The newly developed substituted product for indigo using a clean production technology which greatly reduced the material consumption and environmental pollution. Insight has facilities producing nearly 20 photo-initiators and developed the new technique for light-curing lubricity, water-born resin, the technique for water-bon coating and their associated applications. The successfully developed technology of new high performance emulsion will promote the technology advancement in the coating industry and the wide spread of new coating in China.Insight has developed a series of new technologies, including a novel reactor technology - using a newly designed patented blade, has been characterized as high efficiency & energy saving reactor.The novel technology research and development are widely applied in INSIGHT's ten-year practice.We studied and confirmed the non-thermal catalyzing effect of microwaves, proposed a "weak microwave" theory, and a chemical reaction rate equation. We proposed that in the existence of microwave magnesium ions and phosphate, amino acid can be activated to form peptide which maybe the path of the origin of life.A 3000mt/a pilot plant in Chongqing using carbon monoxide and hydrogen to produce dimethyl ether in a single step has been built via collaboration with the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University. The large scale, low cost production of dimethyl ether may possible through comprehensive technology improvement. This technology will take full advantage of current ammonia production facilities, and try to solve the global fuel shortage problem.     

MnCl2-H4SiW12O40/SiO2催化氧化二甲醚制取甲缩醛

 采用浸渍法制备了H4SiW12O40/SiO2杂多酸催化剂,分别使用MnCl2, SnCl4和CuCl2对其进行修饰,并在常压连续流动固定床反应器中考察了催化剂对二甲醚选择氧化制取甲缩醛的催化活性. 结果表明, MnCl2修饰的H4SiW12O40/SiO2催化剂的活性和甲缩醛选择性均高于SnCl4和CuCl2修饰的催化剂. 进一步考察了不同MnCl2含量及反应温度对反应的影响. 在MnCl2含量为5%, 反应温度为593 K时, MnCl2-H4SiW12O40/SiO2催化剂的活性和甲缩醛选择性最佳,二甲醚转化率为8.6%, 甲缩醛选择性为36.3%. X射线衍射结果显示, MnCl2与H4SiW12O40相互作用并均匀地分散在载体上. 用红外光谱研究了MnCl2-H4SiW12O40/SiO2催化剂的结构,发现改性后的催化剂基本保持了杂多酸的Keggin结构. NH3程序升温脱附结果显示, MnCl2的加入较明显地降低了催化剂的酸强度和酸中心数目.     

二氧化碳加氢直接合成二甲醚催化剂的研究 Ⅰ. 沉淀剂对催化剂结构和性能的影响

使用不同沉淀剂制备了CuO-ZnO-Al2O3/HZSM-5复合型催化剂，考察了其对CO2直接加氢的催化性能，并采用H2-TPR、XRD、BET、CO2-TPD、H2-TPD等表征方法对催化剂物化性质进行了表征。研究结果表明，沉淀剂对催化剂的反应性能、晶相结构、还原难易程度、以及对CO2、H2的吸附性能等均有显著影响。催化剂上存在两种吸附位，催化剂的活性、选择性与其吸附性能密切相关。研究结果可以较好地解释CO2直接转化为甲醇和二甲醚的反应机理。     

聚硅氧烷聚脲多嵌段共聚物中氢键的研究

采用多种手段研究了聚硅氧烷与聚脲嵌段共聚物中所存在的各类氢键．特别探讨在聚硅氧烷软段中引入极性氰丙基对体系成氢键能力的影响和两相间相互作用力的情况结果表明，在软段分子中引入极性氰丙基有利于增加聚硅氧烷分子与聚脲链段的相互作用，这一相间作用力使两相间界面层厚度随着硬段分子量的增加而加宽，并发现在聚硅氧烷聚脲嵌段共聚物中硬段的聚集形态随溶液浓度改变变化不大，其中氢键随着温度升高而下降．     

Preparation of Diphenyl Oxalate from Transesterification of Dimethyl Oxalate with Phenol over TS—1 Catalyst

Diphenyl oxalate was synthesized from transesterification of dimethyl oxalate with phenol over TS-1(2.5 wt% Ti)catalyst.TS-1 catalyst,as a beterogeneous catalyst,showed excellent selectivity of diphenyl oxalate and methylphenyl oxalate compared with other homogeneous catalysts.Lewis acid sites on TS-1 catalyst were the active sites for transesterification of dimethyl oxalate with phenol.the high selectivity was closely related to the weak acid sites over TS-1.     

含规整聚环氧乙烷枝链的聚硅氧烷的合成及表征

以萘钾为引发剂，二甲基亚砜为溶剂制备了以烯丙基为末端基的聚环氧乙烷大单体，并利用末端双键的硅氢化反应合成了相对分子质量规整的聚环氧乙烷接枝聚硅氧烷的共聚物。产物经萃取精制后，用ＩＲ、￣１ＨＮＭＲ等方法进行了表征。     

KN03／MCM-48催化酯交换法合成碳酸二丙酯

对KNO，／MCM-48用于丙醇和碳酸二甲酯进行酯交换合成碳酸二丙酯的催化性能进行了考察．用X射线衍射（XRD）、红外光谱（IR）和X射线荧光法研究了催化剂的结构特征和表面性质．XRD结果表明，随着K负载量的增加，载体特征峰强度逐渐减弱，但仍保留MCM-48的晶体结构．随着焙烧温度的升高，KNO3逐渐分解成K2O．分别考察了活性组分负载量、焙烧温度、焙烧时间和催化剂的用量以及反应时间对反应的影响．结果表明，KNO3／MCM-48催化剂对碳酸二丙酯的合成具有很高的催化活性．在反应温度363K，反应时间6h，催化剂用量5％，丙醇与碳酸二甲酯摩尔比为4的条件下，碳酸二甲酯的转化率可达99．9％，产物碳酸二丙酯选择性93．4％，产率93．3％．     

A new Sequiterpenoid from Eupatorium adenophorum Spreng

A new sequiterpenoid compound 8aα-hydroxy-1-isopropyl-4,7-dimethyl-1,2,3,4,6,8a-hexahydro-naphthalene-2,6-dione(1),together with seven known compounds anti-HH-dimer-coumarin(2),(-)-5-exo-hydroxy-bomeol(3),O-hydroxyl cinnamic acid(4),9β-hydroxy-ageraphorone(5),10Hα-9-oxo-ageraphorone(6),10Hβ-9-oxo-ageraphorone(7)and 9-oxo-10,11-dehydroageraphorone 8,was isolated from the leaves of Eupatorium adenopho-rum Spreng.The structures were elucidated by IR,~1H and ~(13)C NMR,EIMS,HMBC and single-crystal X-ray spec-tral data.     

聚γ-[N,N-双(β-乙硫乙基)胺基]丙基硅氧烷铑配合物的合成及其催化硅氢化性能

从二(β-氟乙基)烯丙胺出发,通过乙硫醚化、硅氢加成、气相法二氧化硅固载,再与三氯化铑作用,合成了标题配合物,它们是烯烃与三乙氧基硅烷的硅氢加成反应的有效催化剂,对其催化特性进行了研究。