The removal of sulfur compounds from petroleum is extremely necessary for industrial and environmental reasons. Sulfur in transportation fuels is a major air pollution source. In this work, the efficiency of nanostructured Ni-clinoptilolite adsorbent was investigated in the removal of sulfur from gas oil. For this purpose, the design of experiments was performed by selecting effective factors i...

The reactive adsorption desulfurization is an important and efficient technology for the ultra-deep of gasoline. performance adsorbent vital efficiency process. formation inert spinels commonly recognized deactivation adsorbents. In this work, TiO2 was incorporated in Ni/ZnO-Al2O3 to inhibit spinel phase. formed a stable protection layer on surface Al2O3, which prevented interaction between Al2...

Mesostructured titania as support for the CoMoS active phase in deep hydrodesulfurization (HDS) of 4,6-dimethydibenzothiophene (4,6-DMDBT) leads to an increase intrinsic HDS activity and a higher selectivity direct desulfurization (DDS) reaction contrast with conventional CoMoS/alumina catalyst. The temperature treatment mesostructured TiO2 support, modifies catalyst’s transformation 4,6-DMDBT....

Hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets (h-BNNs) with rather high specific surface area (SSA) are important two-dimensional layer-structured materials. Here, a solvent-mediated synthesis of h-BNNs revealed a template-free lattice plane control strategy that induced high SSA nanoporous structured h-BNNs with outstanding aerobic oxidative desulfurization performance.

The vgb gene, encoding Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb), was introduced into a specific desulfurization bacterium, Rhodococcus erythropolis LSSE8-1. The VHb-specific spectrum was observed for the recombinant. Compared to the wild type, the strain bearing vgb showed a higher biomass yield and desulfurizing activity.

Radiation-induced modifications of human serum albumin mainly occurring at S-containing residues were investigated by Raman spectroscopy and mass spectrometry techniques. When HO˙ radicals were scavenged by t-BuOH, the H˙ atom and hydrated electron (e(aq)(-)) attack led to the chemical transformation of Cys into Ala residues and the conversion of Met residues into α-aminobutyric acid residues. ...

Petroleum refineries utilize thermal cracking, catalytic cracking and hydrogenation processes to produce high quality oil products. Hydrodesulfurization is one of the most important methods to remove sulfur from petroleum fractions. Heavy oil contains various types of sulfur compound. The structure of the sulfur compounds affects the ease of sulfur removal1). Acyclic sulfur compounds including ...

Peptide-mercaptopropionylcysteine (MPA-Cys) thioesters show a surprisingly high reactivity in native chemical ligation (NCL) and allow thiol-additive free reactions. This facilitates sequential NCL reactions and ligation-desulfurization reactions in one-pot formats. The synthetic utility is demonstrated by the synthesis of a SH3 domain.

Dehydrogenative desulfurization of thiourea derivatives (RNHC(S)NHR') has been achieved, to give carbodiimides (RN=C=NR'), in the reaction with hydrosilane and (η(5)-C5H5)Fe(CO)2Me. The obtained carbodiimide reacted with (η(5)-C5H5)Fe(CO)(SiR3) formed in the reaction to give an N-silylated η(2)-amidino iron complex, which was isolated and then characterized by X-ray analysis.

A novel copper-catalyzed oxidative desulfurization reaction of thiocarbonyl compounds, using molecular oxygen as an oxidant and leading to formation of carbonyl compounds, has been developed, and the utility of the process is demonstrated by its application to the preparation of a carbonyl-18O labeled sialic acid derivative.