The silylation of SBA-15 enhances the reducibility of cobalt oxides on a SBA-15 supported cobalt catalyst, and consequently increases the catalytic activity for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons from syngas and selectivity for longer chain products.

A study was initiated to find compounds which have the capacity to induce high levels of activity of microsomal systems detoxifying polycycic hydrocarbons. Of a large number of chemicals and dietary constituents, only phenothiazine and several of its derivatives were found to be potent inducers of an increased benzpyrene hydroyxlase activity. These phenothiazines also protected rats against adr...

Based on polycyclic aromatic azomethine ylides (PAMYs), a metal-free "cycloaddition-planarization-sequence" is proposed, providing a unique entry to extended nitrogen-containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (N-PAHs). This method is highly versatile, as the structure of unprecedented N-PAHs can be tailored by the dipolarophile in the crucial 1,3-cycloaddition-reaction. Linear, as well as fiv...

Volatile compounds in honey samples of different botanical origins were investigated. Solid phase microextraction (SPME) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) revealed a total of 86 compounds in the headspace of 4 types of honey – multifloral, heather, buckwheat and lime-honeydew. The chemical composition of the headspace was very diverse, owing to the presence of compounds from diff...

Extracts from a peat, a low-rank coal and a bituminous oíl shale obtained with liquid carbon dioxide were studied by capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and compared with those obtained by Soxhlet extraetion with n-hexane. Although the extraetion yields with liquid carbon dioxide were lower, the composition of the extraets, comprising mainly a large variety of linear and cyclic hydro...

The Clar aromatic sextet theory predicts that the intensity of cyclic conjugation in chevron-type benzenoid hydrocarbons monotonically decreases along the central chain. This regularity has been tested by means of several independent theoretical methods (by the energy effects of the respective sixmembered rings, as well as by their HOMA, NICS, and SCI values, calculated at the B3LYP/6-311G(d,p)...

Oxidative carbon-carbon bond cleavage of N-alkoxycarbonylated cyclic amines was accomplished by NaNO2 in TFA to afford ω-amino carboxylic acid in high yield. Optically active 3-hydroxypiperidine derivatives and 3-pipecolinate, were converted to enantiomerically pure (R)-4-amino-3-hydroxybutanoic acid (GABOB) and (S)-2-pyrrolidone-4-carboxylate, respectively. It is well known that trifluoroaceti...

An electrophototrophic, hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris stain RP2 was isolated from the anodic biofilms of hydrocarbon fed microbial electrochemical remediation systems (MERS). Salient properties of the strain RP2 were direct electrode respiration, dissimilatory metal oxide reduction, spore formation, anaerobic nitrate reduction, free living diazotrophy and the ability ...