Conversion, selectivity, yield and kinetics of 1-hexanol liquid phase dehydrocondensation to di-n-hexyl ether (DNHE) were determined at 150-190 oC on the thermally stable resin Amberlyst 70 in a batch reactor. At 190oC, 1-hexanol conversion of about 71 %, with selectivity to ether of 87 % was obtained after 6-h reaction time. A kinetic model stemming from an Eley-Rideal mechanism in which 1-hex...

Glycerol mono-oleate (GMO) was produced by direct esterification reaction with amberlyst 16 resin catalysts with the efficiency of 86% and was used as a surfactant for synthesis of CoFe2O4 nano-particles by surfactant-assisted microwave method. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to consider the structural and...

A sulfonated graphene catalyst was designed and tested in the acetylation of glycerol. The synthesized using graphite as starting material comprised three stages, which included: (i) synthesis oxide by means a modified Hummers method, (ii) reduction with ascorbic acid, (iii) functionalization sulfanilic acid situ diazotization. Structural, morphological chemical properties were characterized SE...

The current work utilizes the ab initio density functional theory (DFT) to develop a molecular level of the mechanistic understanding on the phenol alkylation in the presence of a cation-exchange resin catalyst, Amberlyst-15. The catalyst is modeled with the benzene sulfonic acid, and the effect of this acid on olefins such as isopropene (i-Pr) and tributene (t-Bu) in a phenol solution mimics t...

A Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica (PMO) functionalized with sulfonic acid groups has been successfully synthesized via a sequence of post-synthetic modification steps of a trans-ethenylene bridged PMO material. The double bond is functionalized via a bromination and subsequent substitution obtaining a thiol functionality. This is followed by an oxidation towards a sulfonic acid group. After fu...

Glycerol mono-oleate (GMO) was produced by direct esterification reaction with amberlyst 16 resin catalysts with the efficiency of 86% and was used as a surfactant for synthesis of CoFe2O4 nano-particles by surfactant-assisted microwave method. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to consider the structural and...

β,β-Disubstituted-1,3-dinitro compounds were obtained exclusively with an overall yield of 83% through a domino nitroaldol/elimination/1,4-addition process, when excess nitromethane was added to cyclohexanone or butanone using DBU (1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene), as basic catalyst. On the other hand, β-nitroalcohols could be in 30-84% yield, reacts different aliphatic ketones stoichiometri...