The limiting case of Russell–Saunders coupling, which leads to a maximum spin alignment for the open shell electrons, usually explains the properties of high spin ionic crystals with transition metals. For actinide compounds, the spin–orbit splitting is large enough to cause a significantly reduced spin alignment. Novel concepts are used to explain the dependence of the spin alignment on the 5f...

Several ionic liquids were applied as catalysts for the synthesis of cyclic urethanes from amino alcohols and pressurized CO2 in the presence of alkali metal compounds as promoters. A comparative study was made for the catalytic performance using different ionic liquids, substrates, promoters, and pressures. The optimum catalytic system was BMIM-Br promoted by K2CO3, which, for 1-amino-2-propan...

Homogeneous catalysts usually show higher catalytic activities than heterogeneous catalysts because of their high dispersion of catalytically active sites. We demonstrate here that heterogeneous catalysts of ionic liquids functionalized on superhydrophobic mesoporous polymers exhibit much higher activities in transesterification to form biodiesel than homogeneous catalysts of the ionic liquids ...

This study reports on optimization of the RP-HPLC separation of imidazolium and pyridinium ionic liquid cations using a variable-size simplex algorithm. Under the optimized conditions, all critical pairs of ionic liquids were successfully separated in a single chromatographic run. The mobile phase at the point corresponding to the optimum consisted of 10% MeOH and 90% 15 mM KH(2)PO(4)/H(3)PO(4)...

In this contribution the synthesis and full structural and spectroscopic characterization of three asymmetrically substituted bis-1,2,4-triazoles, along with different energetic moieties like amino, nitro, nitrimino and azido moieties, is presented. Additionally, selected nitrogen-rich ionic derivatives have been prepared and characterized. This comparative study on the influence of these energ...

Waste streams from the incineration of metal-containing materials like such as computer processor boards and batteries may contain critical rare earth elements praseodymium. Data on solubility Pr compounds their distribution coefficients in supercritical CO2/ionic liquid two-phase systems are important to determine if an ionic liquid/supercritical CO2 approach is feasible toward recovery a part...