The direct catalytic conversion of methane to liquid oxygenated compounds, such as methanol or dimethyl ether, at low temperature using molecular oxygen is a grand challenge in C-H activation that has never been met with synthetic, heterogeneous catalysts. We report the first demonstration of direct, catalytic oxidation of methane into methanol with molecular oxygen over copper-exchanged zeolit...

Catalytic membrane reactors which carry out separation and reaction in a single unit are expected to be a promising approach to achieve green and sustainable chemistry with less energy consumption and lower pollution. This article presents a review of the recent progress of dense ceramic catalytic membranes and membrane reactors, and their potential applications in energy and environmental area...

Alloying Pd with Cu is important for catalytic reactions such as denitrification reaction and CO oxidation reaction, but understanding of the catalyst preparation and its correlation with the catalyst’s activity and selectivity remains elusive. Herein, we report the results of investigations of the preparation of PdCu alloy nanocatalysts using different methods and the catalytic properties of t...

The reaction of stoichiometric amounts of dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates with alkyl isocyanides and 5,5-diaryl thiohydantoins in toluene and catalytic amount of p-TSA afforded imidazo[2,1-b][1,3]thiazines in good overall yields

When rabbit muscle phosphorylase reconstituted with pyridoxal (5’)-diphospho(l)-a-~-glucose is incubated with glycogen, its glucosyl moiety is transferred to the nonreducing end of glycogen with the formation of a new a-1,4-glucosidic linkage. This finding provided the first evidence for the direct phosphate-phosphate interaction between the coenzyme pyridoxal 5’phosphate and the substrate a-D-...

Synthesis of indole derivatives was investigated and compared to the reaction of phenylhydrazine and ketones in the presence of the heterogeneous catalysts like kaolinite, montmorillonite K10 and Fe3O4 MNPs in ethanol under reflux conditions. After comparing the HPLC chromatogram of products it was compared and found that kaolin and montmorillonite K10 are better and more efficient candidate th...

nano sulfated titania was tested as solid acid heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of 4-(trifluoromethyl) coumarin and coumarin derivatives under solvent-free condition. factorial design evidenced a positive effect of reaction temperature, amount of catalyst, and solvents.  this nano-sized sulfated titania has been prepared by a sol-gel hydrothermal process. the prepared sulfated titania s...

A family of chiral triazolium salts has been developed for inducing the asymmetric intramolecular Stetter reaction. The use of an aminoindanol-derived catalyst affords optimal results, with the product keto esters formed in 82-97% ee and very good chemical yield. Aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes are equally competent substrates for this reaction. The reaction conditions are reasonably mild and ...

Biochemical reactions in a cell can be modeled by a catalytic reaction network (CRN). It has been reported that catalytic chain reactions occur intermittently in the CRN with a homogeneous random-graph topology and its avalanche-size distribution obeys a power law with the exponent 4/3 [A. Awazu and K. Kaneko, Phys. Rev. E 80, 010902(R) (2009)]. This fact indicates that the catalytic reaction d...

The origin of life on earth is still in search of a satisfactory explanation. The field is dominated by many facets and partial explanations. Facets include frequency of planetary systems, climatology of early earth, chirality in naturally occurring compounds, abiotic production of molecules, etc. Partial explanations include the naturally occurring self-reproducing molecules, quasispecies and ...