Iron-containing spinels, also known as ferrospinels, are widely used catalysts for the water gas shift (WGS) reaction. The catalytic activity of spinels containing transition metal ions as dopants or modifiers is influenced by the acid base and redox properties of these ions as well as by their site occupancy amongst the octahedral and tetrahedral sites in the spinel structure. It has been esta...

the growth rate and uniformity of carbon nano tubes (cnts) based on chemical vapor deposition (cvd) technique is investigated by using a numerical model. in this reactor, inlet gas mixture, including xylene as carbon source and mixture of argon and hydrogen as  carrier gas enters into a horizontal cvd reactor at atmospheric pressure. based on the gas phase and surface reactions, released carbon...

A series of imino- and amino-pyridine ligands based on dihydrobenzofurobenzofuran (BFBF) and methanodibenzodioxocine (DBDOC) backbones have been synthesized. These ligands form exclusively dinuclear complexes with metals such as iron(II) and copper(II). The structures for complexes 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 24 were determined by X-ray crystallography. The complexes show large distances fo...

Mononuclear nonheme oxoiron(IV) complexes bearing 15-membered macrocyclic ligands were generated from the reactions of their corresponding iron(II) complexes and iodosylbenzene (PhIO) in CH(3)CN. The oxoiron(IV) species were characterized with various spectroscopic techniques such as UV-vis spectrophotometer, electron paramagnetic resonance, electrospray ionization mass spectrometer, and resona...

In this study we have developed an efficient synthesis of 1,2-dihydroquinoline and dihydrobenzo[b]azepine derivatives involving the iron(III) chloride intramolecular alkyne-carbonyl metathesis reaction for the first time. Various functionalized 1,2-dihydroquinolines and dihydrobenzo[b]azepines were prepared from easily accessible substrates in the presence of environmentally friendly and inexpe...

Iron-containing materials have been prepared following several strategies of synthesis and using different silica supports (amorphous, zeolitic and mesostructured materials). Activity and stability of these materials was evaluated on the wet peroxide oxidation of phenol under mild reaction conditions (100 degrees C, air pressure of 1MPa and stoichiometric amount of hydrogen peroxide for the com...

The bis(imino)pyridine iron dinitrogen complex (((i)Pr)PDI)Fe(N(2))(2) catalyzes the hydrogen-mediated reductive cyclization of enynes and diynes with turnover frequencies comparable to those of established precious metal catalysts. Amino, oxygenated, and carbon-based substrates are readily cyclized to the corresponding hetero- and carbocycles with 5 mol % iron and 4 atm H(2) at 23 degrees C. S...

Iron oxide catalysts supported on nanostructured silica SBA-15 were synthesized with various iron loadings using two different precursors. Structural characterization of the as-prepared Fe x O y /SBA-15 samples was performed by nitrogen physisorption, X-ray diffraction, DR-UV-Vis spectroscopy, and Mössbauer spectroscopy. An increasing size of the resulting iron species correlated with an increa...

The oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propene using carbon dioxide is an attractive novel synthesis route produce a key platform chemical. We investigated iron-chromia catalysts prepared by sol-gel. mixed oxides showed improved specific surface area and high concentration acid base sites were found be highly active catalysts. Although coking was observed over the catalysts, regeneration r...

This Korea-USA collaborative project, sponsored by AOARD for 2 years (April 18, 2013 April 17, 2015), “A study of material and optical properties of nano diamond wires (AOARD134085)”, aspired to find a way to synthesize a new form of carbon, crystalline diamond nanowires, and then to characterize them for device applications in nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, and quantum information processing....