Nitrous oxide - anything but inert

Synthesis of phenols with nitrous oxide

10-May-2022 - The emission of various greenhouse gases threatens the global environment, and scientists around the world are increasingly involved and committed to address this issue. While many research groups focus on carbon dioxide (C02) or methane (CH4) revalorization strategies, a team led by Dr. Josep ...

Analysis and Detoxification in One Step

A smart chemoenzymatic method detects and removes hazardous phenols

13-Aug-2019 - Many industrial and agriculture processes use chemicals that can be harmful for workers and the ecosystems where they accumulate. Researchers from Thailand have now developed a bioinspired method to detect and detoxify these chemicals in only one step. As they report in the journal Angewandte ...

New enzyme paradigm for critical reaction in converting lignin to useful products

05-Jul-2018 - An international research team, including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has discovered and characterized a new family of cytochrome P450 enzymes that is critical to improving the conversion of lignin--one of the main ...

SONGWON enters distribution partnership with Lehmann&Voss&Co.

27-Oct-2017 - SONGWON Industrial Co., Ltd and Lehmann&Voss&Co. announced that they have entered an exclusive distribution partnership for Fuel & Lubes antioxidants. Effective as of October 2017, Lehmann&Voss&Co., is now the exclusive distributor in the European market of all SONGWON’s Fuel & Lubes ...

Making vanilla flavoring with less pollution

16-Mar-2017 - In small amounts, vanilla flavoring enhances the taste of our baked goods, desserts and ice cream. But making it synthetically, which is the most common route to keeping the ingredient affordable these days, creates a stream of wastewater that requires treatment before it can be released into ...

Revolutionary process to create ether from esters using metal catalysts

08-Mar-2017 - A group of Waseda University researchers has developed a new process using palladium or nickel as a catalyst for removing carbon monoxide from esters to produce ethers. This innovation provides new opportunities for development of drugs to fight cancer, malaria and more. The conventional method ...

Pine product offers fresh take on fine chemical synthesis

01-Dec-2016 - The goop from pine trees that contains compounds known as terpenes is used in the manufacture of food, cosmetics and drugs, but it might become even more valuable as a chemical reagent made through a process developed by scientists at Rice University. The Rice lab of synthetic chemist László ...

Sticking power of plant polyphenols used in new coatings

Compounds found in red wine and green tea stick to anything, retain useful properties

26-Aug-2013 - A simple kitchen sink experiment helped Northwestern University researchers discover that green tea leaves not only can be used to steep a good cup of tea, but they make an excellent antibacterial coating, too. And so can red wine, dark chocolate and cacao beans, they found. It's the powerful and ...

Chemical reaction could streamline manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other compounds

The reaction resolves a long-standing challenge in organic chemistry

25-Jul-2013 - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a new chemical reaction that has the potential to lower the cost and streamline the manufacture of compounds ranging from agricultural chemicals to pharmaceutical drugs. The reaction resolves a long-standing challenge in organic ...

Amberlyst-15 can act as a catalyst for the acylation of phenols and alcohols

A step forward towards recyclable and environmentally friendly catalysis: Ambelyst-15 demonstrates excellent potential for sustainability

08-Apr-2013 - Owing to the huge array of applications, catalysis has long been dubbed as one of the most significant areas of process and synthetic chemistry. In fact, the vast majority of all chemical industrial products – be it in the field of pharmaceutical, agricultural or polymer chemistry – involve ...