Fractionation of petroleum ether partitioned ethanol extract and crude petroleum ether extract of the leaves of Murraya koenigii Linn (Rutaceae) led to the isolation of 5,8-dimethyl furanocoumarin (1) and 1-al, 3[6’, 6’ dimethyl 5-hexene] carbazole (2) and β-sitosterol (3). Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods such as UV, IR, NMR and LCMS. All the compounds were isolated fo...

Zeolite catalysts that could allow the efficient synthesis of n-butene, such as 1-butene, trans-2-butene, and cis-2-butene, in dimethyl ether (DME)-to-olefin (DTO) reaction were investigated using a fixed-bed flow reactor. The zeolites characterized by N2 adsorption desorption, X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetry (TG), NH3 temperature-programmed desorption (NH3-TPD). A screening ten avail...

Nonlocal periodic density functional calculations have been used to examine the stability of various possible reactive intermediates resulting from the initial adsorption of methanol in the zeolite chabazite. The formation of dimethyl ether has been examined both for pathways via framework coordinated methyl groups and by direct condensation with the framework acting as a solvent. Both are foun...