Earth-abundant Metal-catalyzed Reductive Amination: Recent Advances and Prospect for Future Catalysis

Nitrogen-containing compounds, as an important class of chemicals, have been used widely in pharmaceuticals, materials synthesis. Transition metal-catalyzed reductive amination of an aldehyde or a ketone with ammonia or an amine has been proved to be an efficient and practical method for the preparation of nitrogen-containing compounds in academia and industry for a century. Given the above, several effective methods using transition metals have been developed in recent years. Noble transition metals like Pd, Pt, and Au-based catalysts have been predominately used in reductive amination. Because of their high prices, strict official regulations of residues in pharmaceuticals, and deleterious effects on the biological system, their industrial applications are severely hampered. With the increasing sustainable and environmental problems, the Earth-abundant transition metals including Ti, Fe, Co, Ni, and Zr have also been investigated for the reductive amination reaction and showed great potential to the advancement of sustainable and cost-effective reductive amination processes. This critical review will mainly summarize the work using Earth-abundant metals. The effects of different transition metals used in catalytic reduction amination were discussed and compared, and some suggestions were given. The last section highlights the catalytic activities of bi- and tri-metallic catalysts. Indeed, this latter family is very promising and simultaneously benefits from increased stability, and selectivity, compared to monometallic NPs, due to synergistic substrate activation. Few comprehensive reviews focusing on Earth-abundant transition metals catalyst has been published since 1948, although several authors reported some summaries dealing with one or the other part of this aspect. It is hoped that this critical review will inspire researchers to develop new efficient and selective earth-abundant metal catalysts for highly, environmentally sustainable reductive amination methods, as well as improve the pharmaceutical industry and related chemical synthesis company traditional method with the utilization of the green method widely.     

Encapsulation of Phosphomolybdate Within Metal–Organic Frameworks with Dual Enzyme-like Activities for Colorimetric Detection of H2O2 and Ascorbic acid

Developing artificial enzyme mimetics for the detection of small biomolecules are a current research interest because natural enzymes bear some serious disadvantages, such as their catalytic activity can be easily inhibited and they can be digested by proteases. Herein, a heteropoly acids (HPA) encapsulating metal–organic framework (MOF) with metal-carbene structure, [Cu₁₀(H₃trz)₄(Htrz)₄][PMo₁₂VO₄₁] (PMA-MOF) as bifunctional enzyme-mimetic catalyst for colorimetric detection of hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) and ascorbic acid (AA) was designed and synthesized. Thanks to the good stability and the synergistic effect of PMA and MOF, PMA-MOF exhibits the lower limit of detection (0.222 μM towards H₂O₂ and 0.0046 μM to AA), and the smaller Km value (0.0138 mM for H₂O₂ and 0.136 mM for o-phenylenediamine) compared to most reported MOF- and HPA-based enzyme-mimetic catalyst, to the best our knowledge.

     

Multi-Center Vector Field Methods for Wave Equations

We develop the method of vector-fields to further study Dispersive Wave Equations. Radial vector fields are used to get a-priori estimates such as the Morawetz estimate on solutions of Dispersive Wave Equations. A key to such estimates is the repulsiveness or nontrapping conditions on the flow corresponding to the wave equation. Thus this method is limited to potential perturbations which are repulsive, that is the radial derivative pointing away from the origin. In this work, we generalize this method to include potentials which are repulsive relative to a line in space (in three or higher dimensions), among other cases. This method is based on constructing multi-centered vector fields as multipliers, cancellation lemmas and energy localization.     

在体酶生物燃料电池的研究进展

酶生物燃料电池(Enzymatic biofuel cells,EBFCs)具有高专一性和催化性能,可催化与氧化还原反应有关的燃料并获得电能.可用的生物燃料,如葡萄糖、乳酸和丙酮酸盐,可以从汗液、泪液和血液中提取,因而以体液为燃料的EBFCs在可植入式或可穿戴式设备中具有良好的应用前景.采用生物电催化机理对酶生物燃料电池在体液发电中的应用进行了研究,以及对可植入式或可穿戴式生物燃料电池的主要挑战和未来的前景进行了展望.     

研究类氦原子基态能量的参数微扰法

考虑了类氦原子中电子对核的屏蔽效应,建立了含有屏蔽效应参数的哈密顿算符,并应用微扰理论研究了类氦原子基态能量.通过参数微扰法计算的类氦原子一级近似基态能量与变分法得到的能量完全相同,比无参数微扰法计算的能量更加接近实验值.参数微扰法为研究多电子原子能级和原子能级精细结构提供了一种新的方法.     

表面活性剂辅助二氧化硅纳米颗粒在非水基液中的分散研究（英文）

研究了粒径10~100nm的二氧化硅纳米颗粒在非水基液中的表面活性剂辅助分散。结合颗粒表面特定官能团结构,针对性选择了合适的表面活性剂,氢键桥梁作用和长链分子空间位阻作用抑制了颗粒团聚行为。当表面活性剂体积分数6%的时候,动态光散射测试结果表明颗粒中位尺度30.2nm,与透射电镜测试结果吻合,展现了良好的分散性。     

Cooling crystallization of aluminum sulfate in pure water modulated by sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate

This study investigated the cooling crystallization of aluminum sulfate to explore the basic data for the recovery of aluminum resources from coal spoil. Cooling crystallization process of aluminum sulfate with sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (SDBS) was investigated experimentally. The effects of operating conditions, namely rotate speed and cooling rate on the crystal size (Median diameter, D_0.5) were studied. Based on single factor experimental results, the response surface method (RSM) with a Box–Behnken design (BBD) was used to determine the key operating conditions, from which a predictive equation was established to quantitatively describe the relationships of D_0.5 and there relative parameters. The optimum operating conditions for cooling crystallization of aluminum sulfate were as follows: rotate speed of 200–300 rpm, cooling rate of 4–5 °C /min and n (SDBS)/n (Al₂(SO₄)₃) of around 5E‐4. Molecular dynamics (MD) results reveal that SDBS decreases the diffusion coefficient (D) of Al³⁺ molecules, which inhibits nucleation and promotes crystal growth.     

用于组胺检测的MWCNT/ZnO/Nafion复合物膜修饰的电化学发光传感器的研究

基于含有氨基类物质对三联吡啶钌电化学发光的促进作用,建立了直接测定组胺的电化学发光方法。通过MWCNT/ZnO/Nafion复合物膜修饰玻碳电极(GC)固定三联吡啶钌,研究了此工作电极在组胺溶液中的ECL发光行为。在最优的实验条件下,组胺质量浓度在1.0~1.0×104ng/mL范围内时其对数值与电化学发光信号呈良好的线性关系(R2=0.9968),检出限为0.64 ng/mL,组胺的加标回收率为96%~103%,RSD为2.7%。