Esterification of several carboxylic acids with supercritical alcohols such as 1-propanol, 1butanol, 1-octanol, isoamylalcohol, ethanol, methanol, and subcritical benzyl alcohol without using any catalyst was studied. A variety of esters were synthesized very effectively using supercritical alcohols as solvent and reagent. Moderate to excellent yields were obtained depending on the nature of th...

Treatment of substituted benzyl alcohols with tosyl chloride resulted in the formation of the corresponding chlorides, not the usual tosylates. A series of experiments demonstrated that it was possible to predict whether chlorination or tosylation would occur for substituted benzyl alcohols and pyridine methanols. Treatment of electron withdrawing group-substituted benzyl alcohols with tosyl ch...

This work investigates the degradation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in an alkaline electrolyte, enabling “indirect” electrooxidation HMF at unprecedentedly high substrate and base concentrations improved atom economy.

Far from equilibrium: This thesis provides a deep mechanistic analysis of the electrooxidation of methanol when the system is kept far from the thermodynamic equilibrium. Under an oscillatory regime, interesting characteristics between the elementary reaction steps were observed. We were able to elucidate the effect of the intrinsic drift in a potential time-series responsible for spontaneous t...

Coimmobilization of beta-galactosidase and glucose oxidase in a redox polymer, polyvinylferrocenium perchlorate (PVF+ ClO4-), led to the development of an enzyme electrode for the determination of lactose. The amperometric response of the electrode was measured at +0.70 V vs. SCE, which was due to the electrooxidation of enzymatically produced H2O2. The effects of the substrate and buffer conce...

Electronic Modifi cation Effects Induced by Fe in Pt-Ru-Fe Ternary Catalyst on the Electrooxidation of CO/H2 and Methanol Taeyoon Kim, Koichi Kobayashi 2* , Tetsuo Take 2 and Masayuki Nagai 2 1 Department of Chemistry and Energy Engineering, Tokyo City University (Tokyo 158-8557, JAPAN) 2 Research Center for Energy and Environmental Science, Advance Research Laboratory, Tokyo City University (T...

Monodisperse 4.5 nm Pd nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized by solution phase reduction of palladium acetylacetonate with morpholine borane in a mixture of oleylamine and 1-octadecene. These NPs were assembled on graphene uniformly in the form of a monolayer, and showed much enhanced catalysis for electrooxidation of formic acid. The work demonstrates the great potential of graphene as a suppor...

trimethylsilylation of a variety of alcohols and phenols, in the presence of silica chloride, using hexamethyldisilazane (hmds) in solution and under solvent-free conditions is reported. trimethylsilyl ethers were formed in excellent yields both for aliphatic alcohols and phenols without having an electron-withdrawing group. in addition, sio2-cl can be recovered and reused after drying.

Electrophysiological and behavioral studies were performed in rats to analyze the gustatory effects of alcohols, such as methanol, ethanol, ethylene glycol, 1-propanol, 2-propanol, propylene glycol, 1,3-propandiol, and glycerin. When the whole bundle responses to each of the alcohols at 1.0 M were recorded from the chorda tympani (CT) and glossopharyngeal nerve (Gl), the alcohols with two or th...

A novel, one-step synthesis of substituted pyridine- and quinoline-derivatives was achieved by acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of γ-aminoalcohols with secondary alcohols. The reaction involves consecutive C-N and C-C bond formation, catalyzed by a bipyridyl-based ruthenium pincer complex with a base.