The hydroformylation of alkenes is a major commercial process used for the production of oxygenated organic compounds. When the hydroformylation reaction is performed using a homogeneous catalyst, an organic or aqueous solvent is employed, and a significant effort must be expended to recover the catalyst so it can be recycled. Development of a selective heterogeneous catalyst would allow simpli...

There are no appreciable amounts of nickel resources in Iran; therefore, secondary resources of this element are to be more considered in future. Spent nickel catalysts that are used in various industrial processes are one of them. For example nickel catalyst that is used in hydrogenation of edible oil have large amounts of nickel and they are generally supported on porous materials like silica...

This communication describes the fabrication of Pt/CeO2 nanotube@SiO2 core-shell catalysts applied to highly efficient water-gas shift reaction, where the initial CO conversion is 30.2% at 250 °C. Pt/CeO2 nanotube@SiO2 core-shell catalysts show outstanding thermal stability, even after accelerated aging under reaction conditions at 450 °C for 6 h, and the morphology is also unchanged after ther...

Iron oxides catalyze the conversion of hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) into oxidants capable of transforming recalcitrant contaminants. Unfortunately, the process is relatively inefficient at circumneutral pH values because of competing reactions that decompose H(2)O(2) without producing oxidants. Silica- and alumina-containing iron oxides prepared by sol-gel processing of aqueous solutions contai...

The utilization of a monomer-on-monomer (MoM) intramolecular Mitsunobu cyclization reaction employing norbornenyl-tagged (Nb-tagged) reagents is reported for the synthesis of benzofused thiadiazepine-dioxides. Facile purification was achieved via ring-opening metathesis (ROM) polymerization initiated by one of three metathesis catalyst methods: (i) free metathesis catalyst, (ii) surface-initiat...

Abstract. Titania (TiO2) is one of the most unique catalysts, crucially important in photo-green chemistry. The mesoporous TiO2 has large surface area, uniform pore size and open frameworks for the transfer of mass and charges. TiO2 has photocatalytic activity which can degrade both organic and inorganic compounds. The band gap energy of TiO2 can be modified by doping various metal oxides to ma...