BACKGROUND Vapor–liquid and liquid–liquid equilibria of unsaturated saturated hydrocarbons with the bio-based solvent dihydrolevoglucosenone, trademarked as Cyrene, have been reported recently, aiming at utilization in extraction (LLX) extractive distillation (ED). In this work, for a model system comprised methylcyclohexane (MCH) toluene (TOL), both LLX-based ED-based processes were compared o...

Solvent is one of the important components in chemical processes. The type solvent that often used paint and coating industry a hydrocarbon-based which consists diverse complex mixture liquids contains aliphatic, alicyclic aromatic (C5-C8) elements. Aromatic hydrocarbons are environmental pollutants known to be toxic, carcinogenic mutagenic, so with an content less than 1% needed. An appropriat...

3-Azido-1-propyne oligomer (oligoAP) samples, prepared by copper(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) polymerization, were quarternized quantitatively with methyl iodide in sulfolane at 60 °C to obtain soluble oligomers. The conformation of the quarternized oligoAP in dilute DMSO-d 6 solution was examined by pulse-field-gradient spin-echo NMR based on the touched bead model.

The structural stability of sulfolane (tetrahydrothiophene1,1-dioxide) and 3-sulfolene (dihydrothiophene1,1-dioxide) was investigated by DFT-B3LYP and ab initio MP2 calculations with 6-311+G**) basis set. The calculated symmetric ring-puckering potential of 3-sulfolene at the B3LYP level is consistent with a flat minimum that corresponds to a planar ring but at the MP2 level with a double minim...

A simple, efficient, rapid and transition metal-free methodology has been developed by utilizing vasicine (a natural product), as a catalyst for the synthesis of phenanthridinones and dihydrophenanthridines. The reaction proceeds through intramolecular C-H arylation with aryl halides in the presence of KOtBu as a base under microwave irradiation in sulfolane as a solvent. The reaction proceeds ...

For lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, high-concentration electrolyte that inhibits the dissolution of Li polysulfide has been widely studied; one such contains sulfolane. This study investigates conditions under which a microporous activated carbon cathode, derived from azurmic acid, operates stably in sulfolane-based electrolyte. We expected this cathode to maintain stable capacity because its ...