The activity of a Te-MgO catalyst prepared by adsorbing Te vapor onto MgO powder was determined by dehydrogenation of indane, 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene, cumene, and p-cymene. The activity of the Te-MgO catalyst was higher than that of the MgO catalyst in most of the cases investigated. The selectivity of the former catalyst was much higher than that of the later in all cases studied. The Te-MgO ...

A new catalyst derived from osmium has been prepared, fully characterized and tested in the dihydroxylation of alkenes. The catalyst was prepared by wet impregnation methodology of OsCl3•3H2O on a commercial micro-magnetite surface. The catalyst allowed the reaction with one of the lowest osmium loadings for a heterogeneous catalyst and was selective for the monodihydroxylation of 1,5-dienes. M...

The development of simple and effective strategies to prepare electrocatalysts, which possess unique stable structures comprised metal/nonmetallic atoms for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) evolution (OER), is currently an urgent issue. Herein, efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst featured by ultralong N, S-doped carbon nano-hollow-sphere chains about 1300 nm with encapsulated Co nanoparticles...

Research in the sustainable conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals is a necessity for reduction carbon footprint transport energy. Herein, we demonstrate an efficient tandem catalyst selectively convert (simulated) bio-oil hydrocarbons with enhanced C4+ fuel yield fixed bed reactor small pilot plant. The catalytic system multifunctional dual system; coupling catalysts (0.2 wt % X-TiO2(X: ...

The promoting effect of niobium in a Li/MgO catalyst for the oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) and for the oxidattve dehydrogenation of ethane (ODHE) has been studied in some detail. it has been found that a Li/Nb/MgO catalyst with 16 wt % niobium showed the highest activity for the C, production in the OCM reaction; the activity at 600 “C was ten times that of the Li/MgO catalyst at the same...

How many genes encode proteins involved in multiple cellular processes? Genetic pleiotropy becomes apparent when mutations in a single gene give rise to diverse phenotypes. Such pleiotropy is well documented for several human disease genes but has not yet been systematically investigated. In their article, Dudley et al (2005) describe the first genome-wide study of genetic pleiotropy. Their fin...