Chronology and characteristics of groundwater along the United Arab Emirates-Oman arid region: a guide for regional sustainability

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry - Estimating groundwater recharge rate is essential for water sustainability of the arid region of the United Arab Emirates that receives most...     

Palladium–quaternary phosphonium phase transfer catalyst brush assembly as reusable and environmentally benign catalyst for coupling of aryl halides and sodium tetraphenylborate in neat water

A first example of simultaneous covalent anchoring of a palladate anion–phosphonium cation matrix on the surface of silica nanoparticles and application in the Suzuki coupling reaction of a variety of different haloarenes and sodium tetraphenylborate in neat aqueous media without the addition of any organic co‐solvent are described. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Lithium Perchlorate Diethyl Ether Solution: A Highly Efficient Media for the Abramov Reaction

The f -hydroxy phosphonates are readily prepared by treating aromatic or aliphatic aldehydes and ketones with trialkylphosphite in the presence of trimethylsilylchloride in a very short time and in almost quantitative yields.     

Novel nano-zeolite modified carbon paste electrode for electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol

Abstract  

Methanol is used as a fuel in the direct methanol fuel cell. Direct oxidation of methanol encounters large overvoltages at most unmodified electrode surfaces. The development of new procedures for electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol to decrease this overvoltage is therefore very desirable. In this paper, we report a new zeolite-modified carbon paste electrode based on Ni-ZSM-5 for methanol electrooxidation. Nanocrystallites of ZSM-5 (Si/Al of 50) with average particle size of 58 nm were synthesized using clear solutions at low temperature (90 °C) under atmospheric pressure. Ni(II) ions were incorporated into the zeolite by immersion of the modified carbon paste electrode with synthesized zeolite in a 1.0 M nickel chloride solution. Cyclic voltammetry showed that by using nano-sized zeolite, the oxidation current increased compared with that of micron-sized zeolite crystallites.     

Oxidation of secondary amines to nitrones using magnetically separable tungstophosphoric acid supported on silica-encapsulated γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles

Superparamagnetic tungstophosphoric acid supported on silica-encapsulated γ-Fe₂O₃ was used as an efficient catalyst for the direct oxidation of secondary amines to nitrones with hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant. The catalyst could be recycled up to four times without significant loss of activity.     

Open problems in some competition models

We present open problems and conjectures for some two-dimensional competition models, namely the logistic competition model and a Ricker-type competition model.     

On the Hilbert 2-class field tower of some abelian 2-extensions over the field of rational numbers

It is well known by results of Golod and Shafarevich that the Hilbert 2-class field tower of any real quadratic number field, in which the discriminant is not a sum of two squares and divisible by eight primes, is infinite. The aim of this article is to extend this result to any real abelian 2-extension over the field of rational numbers. So using genus theory, units of biquadratic number fields and norm residue symbol, we prove that for every real abelian 2-extension over ? in which eight primes ramify and one of theses primes ≡ ?1 (mod 4), the Hilbert 2-class field tower is infinite.