Aminolysis reaction of glycerol carbonate with primary amine in organic and hydroorganic media leads to the formation of two hydroxyurethane isomers and a partial decomposition of glycerol carbonate into glycerol. Aminolysis with a secondary amine promotes the condensation reaction and limits the formation of glycerol. The ratio of a versus b was determined by zgig C NMR. This technique permits...

We study magnetohydrodynamic radiation-convection flow through a porous medium with mass transfer in the presence of a homogeneous first order chemical reaction and surface temperature oscillation. The governing equations are solved analytically using perturbation technique. Detailed computations of the influence of Hartmann number, frequency of the oscillation, radiation parameter, Prandtl num...

A platinum-catalyzed domino process with intermediate benzopyrylium cations reaches its optimum utility in the formation of 7- and 8-membered rings. With iron(III) chloride, a tetracyclic product is isolated, derived from an oxidative transformation of a metal-carbene intermediate.

The reported occurrence of synergistic false-positive coliform reactions on M-Endo MF medium was investigated. The objectives of the study were (i) to isolate populations of bacteria which produced such false-positive reactions, (ii) to determine whether false-positive sheen reactions are a result of synergistic interaction, and (iii) to determine the metabolic intermediates involved in false-p...

Today, success and worth of a business depend more on intellectual capital than physical capital. Hence, knowledge that exists within an organization is a sustainable source of competitive advantage, which makes Knowledge Management (KM) a critical input in the growth of any organization and more so in the case of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Even though much has been researched and wri...

An Ugi multicomponent reaction based two-step strategy was applied to generate medium-sized rings. In the first linear expansion phase, a series of diamines reacted with cyclic anhydrides to produce different lengths of terminal synthetic amino acids as the starting material for the second phase. The Ugi-4-center 3-component reaction was utilized to construct complex medium-sized rings (8-11) b...

In this study, monodisperse polystyrene nanospheres were prepared by dispersion polymerization using alcohol as reaction medium to prepare colloidal clusters of the latex beads. Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and 2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyltrimethylammonium chloride (MTC) were used as dispersion stabilizer and comonomer, respectively. The particle size could be controlled by adjusting the reactant com...

The present paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem { ∂tu = ∆u + u in R × (0,∞), u(x, 0) = u0(x) ≥ 0 in R , with p,m > 1. A solution u with bounded initial data is said to blow up at a finite time T if lim supt↗T ‖u(t)‖L∞(RN ) = ∞. For N ≥ 3 we obtain, in a certain range of values of p, weak solutions which blow up at several times and become bounded in intervals between these blow-up times....

An effective medium theory that can be used to calculate effective diffusion and reaction rate coefficients in random heterogeneous reaction-diffusion systems is described. The predictions of the theory are compared with simulations of spatially distributed media with different types of heterogeneity. The magnitude of the front velocity in bistable media is used to gauge the accuracy of the the...