nanomagnetic mgfe2o4 is an active, stable, and reusable catalyst for the oxidation of alcohols. the oxidation of various primary and secondary alcohols has been examined and related corresponding products were obtained in good yields. the reactions were carried out in the presence of water as solvent and oxone (at room temperature) or h2o2 (at 60 ºc) as an oxidant. the catalyst was investigated...

the interaction of the external donor (propyltrimethoxysilane - ptms) with titanium-magnesium catalysts (tmcs) containing dibutylphthalate (dbp) as internal donor, which were prepared in different ways, was studied by chemical analysis and infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (drifts). the chemical composition of the catalysts after their interaction with heptane solutions of ptms, ptms/al...

The heteroleptic magnesium alkyl complex [CH{C(Me)NAr}(2)Mg(n)Bu] (Ar = 2,6-(i)Pr(2)C(6)H(3)) is reported as a highly efficient pre-catalyst for the hydroboration of aldehydes and ketones with pinacolborane.

The rate of ammonia synthesis over a nanoparticle ruthenium catalyst can be calculated directly on the basis of a quantum chemical treatment of the problem using density functional theory. We compared the results to measured rates over a ruthenium catalyst supported on magnesium aluminum spinel. When the size distribution of ruthenium particles measured by transmission electron microscopy was u...

The new highly active supported vanadium-magnesium catalyst (VMC) has been studied in α-olefin (1-butene, 1-hexene)/ ethylene copolymerization in the presence of hydrogen. Data on the effect of α-olefin/ethylene ratio in copolymerization on the content of branchings in copolymers, kinetic profile, copolymer yield, molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of copolymers have been obtain...

Future large-scale production of H2 for use as a clean fuel will likely depend upon gasifying coal or biomass followed by steam reforming the resulting gas mixture and separating the CO2 byproduct. The process of steam reforming and CO2 separation can be greatly simplified by utilizing a new material that combines a reforming catalyst with a sorbent for CO2. Such a material was prepared in the ...

Organomanganese reagents were prepared by the insertion of magnesium into aryl halides in the presence of MnCl2·2LiCl. These organomanganese reagents smoothly undergo 1,2-addition, acylation, and Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling with various electrophiles. Especially, the oxidative homocoupling of organomanganese reagents was completed in one pot without an additional transition-metal catalyst.

Alkyl-(S,S)-O-lactyllactate was prepared by chemoselective alcoholysis of lactide LA mediated by a magnesium catalyst. When ROH reacted with LA it yielded the ring-opened product R-(S,S)-O-lactyllactate exclusively, which remained intact as long as LA was present in the reaction mixture. Consumption of LA caused the reaction to proceed further giving R-(S)-lactate.

A β-diketiminato magnesium alkyl complex is shown to be an effective pre-catalyst for the first reported catalytic hydroboration of organic isonitriles, RNC, with HBpin. The reaction proceeds under mild conditions when R = alkyl and provides access to the corresponding 1,2-diborylated amine products.