ZnS nanoparticles immobilized on graphitic carbon nitride as a recyclable and environmentally friendly catalyst for synthesis of 3-cinnamoyl coumarins

Research on Chemical Intermediates - Zinc oxide nanoparticles immobilized on a graphitic carbon nitride (ZnS NPs/g-C3N4) nanocomposite were applied as an organometallic recyclable catalyst in the...     

A comparative study of liquid and solid inner contact roxatidine acetate ion-selective electrode membranes

A comparative study was conducted using two designs of a roxatidine acetate (ROX)-selective electrode; a conventional liquid inner contact called electrode A and a graphite-coated solid contact called electrode B. The fabrication of electrodes was based on roxatidine-tetraphenylborate (ROX-TPB) as an ion-association complex in a PVC matrix using different plasticizers. Electrode A has a linear dynamic range of 2.2×10-5 mol/L to 1.0×10-2 mol/L, with a Nernstian slope of 54.7 mV/decade and a detection limit of 1.4×10-6 mol/L. Electrode B shows linearity over the concentration range of 1.0×10-6 mol/L to 1.0×10-2 mol/L, with a Nernstian slope of 51.2 mV/decade and a limit of detection of 1.1×10-7 mol/L which is remarkably improved as a result of diminishing ion fluxes in this solid contact, ion-selective electrode. The proposed sensors display useful analytical characteristics for the determination of ROX in bulk powder and its pharmaceutical formulation. The present electrodes show clear discrimination of ROX from several inorganic, organic ions, sugars, some common drug excipients and the degradation product (3-[3-(1-piperidinyl methyl) phenoxy] propyl amine) of ROX. Furthermore, the proposed electrodes were utilized for the determination of ROX in human plasma, where electrode B covers drug Cmax which indicated its applicability to pharmacokinetic, bioavailability and bioequivalent studies. The results obtained by the proposed electrodes were statistically analyzed and compared with those obtained by a reported HPLC method. No significant difference for either accuracy or precision was observed.     

Efficient fault detection and diagnosis of distillation column using gamma scanning

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry - This paper presents an efficient approach for automated fault detection and diagnosis of the distillation column by analyzing the gamma intensity...     

Synthesis and characterization of some rhodium(III) cyclometallated complexes of 2-substituted benzylideneamino thiazoles

Summary Schiffs bases derived from 2-aminothiazole and substituted benzaldehydes were reacted with [RhCl(PPh₃)₃] or [Rh(-Cl)(COD)]₂ (COD = 1,5-cyclooctadiene) in the presence of four equivalents of PPh₃ to give Rh^III cyclometallated complexes of the type [RhHCl{(X-benzylidene) thiazole}(PPh₃)₂], in which the imine C-H added oxidatively to the metal. The complexes were characterized using i.r., u.v. and n.m.r. spectroscopy. The disposition of the hydride ligand was inferred as trans to a N-donor ligand.     

Artificial intelligence techniques for modeling and optimization of the HDS process over a new graphene based catalyst

A Co-Mo/graphene oxide (GO) catalyst has been synthesized for the first time for application in a defined hydrodesulfurization (HDS) process to produce sulfur free naphtha. An intelligent model based upon the neural network technique has then been developed to estimate the total sulfur output of this process. Process operating variables include temperature, pressure, LHSV and H₂/feed volume ratio. The three-layer, feed-forward neural network developed consists of five neurons in a hidden layer, trained with Levenberg–Marquardt, back-propagation gradient algorithm. The predicted amount of residual total sulfur is in very good agreement with the corresponding experimental values revealing a correlation coefficient of greater than 0.99. In addition, a genetic algorithm (GA) has been employed to optimize values of total sulfur as well as reaction conditions.     

The Bochner–Schoenberg–Eberlein Property for Totally Ordered Semigroup Algebras

The concepts of BSE property and BSE algebras were introduced and studied by Takahasi and Hatori in 1990 and later by Kaniuth and Ülger. This abbreviation refers to a famous theorem proved by Bochner and Schoenberg for \(L^1({\mathbb {R}})\), where \({\mathbb {R}}\) is the additive group of real numbers, and by Eberlein for \(L^1(G)\) of a locally compact abelian group G. In this paper we investigate this property for the Banach algebra \(L^p(S,\mu )\;(1\le p<\infty )\) where S is a compact totally ordered semigroup with multiplication \(xy=\max \{x,y\}\) and \(\mu \) is a regular bounded continuous measure on S. As an application, we have shown that \(L^1(S,\mu )\) is not an ideal in its second dual.     

Graphene/Nafion ink-impregnated graphite felt for both positive and negative sides of enhanced vanadium redox flow battery

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry - Electrocatalysts have a key role in the reactions of vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB). A practical immersion-drying method is used to decorate graphene...     

An efficient synthesis of spiro[dibenzo[b,i]xanthene-13,3′-indoline]-pentaones and 5H-dibenzo[b,i]xanthene-tetraones

Spiro[dibenzo[b,i]xanthene-13,3′-indoline]-pentaones and 5H-dibenzo[b,i]xanthene-tetraones are synthesized from the condensation of 2-hydroxynaphthalene-1,4-dione with isatins or aldehydes.