We report the synthesis and characterization of new V2O5/Al2O3-MgO catalysts and their application in oxidative dehydrogenation and epoxidation reactions. The materials were prepared by wet impregnation under excess acid conditions. Anchoring of the desired species on the support occurs via an exchange reaction between the vanadium complex and surface hydroxyl groups. The IR and UV-Vis spectra ...

Increase of productivity of process urgently requires application of more and technical advance. As is known for deriving of isobutylene, being raw material at development of polyisobutylene and butyl rubbers widely use process of dehydrogenation of isobutylene in pseudoliquid catalyst bed, circulating in reactor-regenerative system. Opportunities of this process in the production conditions co...

The near surface structural evolution in dehydrogenation process of air exposed Pd coated Mg nanoblades was characterized in situ from room temperature to 573 K using reflection high energy electron diffraction RHEED . The evolved normalized diffraction intensity and the full width at half maximum of diffraction peaks have been correlated with the growth of crystal and the change in crystal siz...

Hydrazine borane N2H4BH3 and alkali derivatives (i.e., lithium, sodium and potassium hydrazinidoboranes MN2H3BH3 with M = Li, Na and K) have been considered as potential chemical hydrogen storage materials. They belong to the family of boronand nitrogen-based materials and the present article aims at providing a timely review while focusing on fundamentals so that their effective potential in t...

Solid-state reactions between sodium hydride and sodium hydroxide are unusual among hydride-hydroxide systems since hydrogen can be stored reversibly. In order to understand the relationship between hydrogen uptake/release properties and phase/structure evolution, the dehydrogenation and hydrogenation behavior of the Na-O-H system has been investigated in detail both exand in-situ. Simultaneous...

Using first principles quantum mechanics [nonlocal density functional theory (B3LYP)], we calculated the 13 most likely intermediate species for methanol oxidation on clusters of all 2nd and 3rd row Group VIII transition metals for all three likely binding sites (top, bridge, and cap). This comprehensive set of binding energies and structures allows a detailed analysis of possible reaction mech...

Although zebrafish has become a significant animal model for drug discovery and screening, drug metabolism in zebrafish remains largely unknown. Asiatic acid (AA) and madecassic acid (MA), two natural pentacyclic triterpenoids mainly obtained from Centella asiatica (L.) Urban, have been found to possess many pharmacological effects. This study is to probe the metabolic capability of zebrafish v...