One of the promising types vegetable raw materials in Ukraine, which can be used for development resource-saving technologies, are oils. The products their processing serve as obtaining surface-active substances, production food additives, pharmaceutical products, detergents and cosmetics, biofuels additives. most common oil Ukraine is sunflower, which, like other oils, processed to form fatty ...

Strain SY1, identified as a Corynebacterium sp., was isolated on the basis of the ability to utilize dibenzothiophene (DBT) as a sole source of sulfur. Strain SY1 could utilize a wide range of organic and inorganic sulfur compounds, such as DBT sulfone, dimethyl sulfide, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethyl sulfone, CS2, FeS2, and even elemental sulfur. Strain SY1 metabolized DBT to dibenzothiophene-5-...

BACKGROUND α-Bromination of the side chain of aromatic ketones using NBS in the presence of p-toluenesulfonic acid (p-TsOH) in acetonitrile is very common. However, regioselective bromination of bis and tris(ω-bromoacetophenones) with NBS in the presence of p-TsOH in acetonitrile under microwave irradiation is quite novel. The bis- and tris(ω-bromoacetophenones) are used in synthesis of bis and...

The synthesis of 4-styryl-substituted 2,3,8-trioxabicyclo[3.3.1]nonanes, peroxides with the core structure of the bioactive 1,2,4-trioxane ring, was conducted by a multistep route starting from the aryl methyl ketones 1a-1c. Condensation and reduction/oxidation delivered enals 4a-4c that were coupled with ethyl acetate and reduced to the 1,3-diol substrates 6a-6c. Highly diastereoselective phot...

A novel means of combining thin-layer chromatography (TLC) with laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry using a liquid matrix is proposed. Surface-assisted laser desorption/ionization (SALDI) mass spectrometry, which uses a mixture of a micrometer-sized carbon powder (graphite or activated carbon, the SALDI solid) and 15% sucrose/glycerol, dissolved in an equal volume of methanol (SALDI l...

Studies on single-atom catalysts (SACs) with individually isolated metal atoms anchored specific supports have gained great interest in photocatalysis due to their enhanced catalytic activity and optimal atom utilization. By providing the optimized number of active sites enhancing intrinsic activity, SACs afford a distinctive platform for at atomic level. In this study, we investigate photocata...

The concept of an organic reaction between two macroscopic solid particles is investigated. Thus, we study several reactions that have been recently reported to proceed "in the solid phase" and clearly show that, in most cases, grinding the two solid reactants together results in the formation of a liquid phase. This is true both for catalytic transformations (e.g., aldol condensations and olig...

Two discrete hexadecavanadates, (n-Bu4N)4[V16O38(X)] (X = Cl(-) (1) and X = Br(-) (2)), were synthesized by a reaction of [V10O26](4-) with a template anion resulting in the incorporation of chloride or bromide in the {V16} spherical cluster framework. The reaction of [V10O26](4-) with p-toluenesulfonic acid proceeded under an aerobic environment to give 2 in the presence of an excess amount of...