Potential applications catalysis

Interests in the phase transfer catalysis (PTC) have grown steadily for the past several years [68-70]. The use of PTC has recently received industrial importance in cases where the alternative use of polar aprotic solvents would be prohibitively expensive [71-74]. Thus, the potential application of the phase transfer catalyzed aromatic nucleophilic displacement reactions between phenoxide or thiophenoxide and activated systems has... 

A New Electron Diffraction Technique, Potentially Applicable to Research in Catalysis L. H. Germer... 

Hyperbranched and dendronized polymers such as 40, 41, and 42 have also been synthesized using the transition metal coupling strategies in recent years.32 These polymers are fundamentally different from those traditional linear polymers. They possess dendritic arms within die polymer or along the polymer backbone. It is believed that they possess interesting properties and have potential applications in many fields such as nanotechnology and catalysis ... 

Primary phosphines (R-PHj) are an important ciass of compounds in organophosphorus chemistry. Aithough discovered over a century ago, their chemistry and appiications have gained prominence in recent years. This review discusses recent deveiopments on synthesis, moiecuiar structure, properties, and appiications of primary phosphines. In particular, discussions on synthesis and properties emphasize recent results from our laboratory on the chemical architecture of amide, thioether, and carboxylate functionalized primary bisphos-phines. The utility of bromo- and aminopropyl phosphines (X(CH2)3PH2 X=Br or NH2) as building blocks to produce designer primary phosphines that display exceptional oxidative stability is described. The review also discusses the utility of carboxylate functionalized primary phosphines for incorporation on to peptides and their potential applications in catalysis and biomedicine. 

Indeed, these reactions proceed at 25 °C in ethanol-aqueous media in the absence of transition metal catalysts. The ease with which P-H bonds in primary phosphines can be converted to P-C bonds, as shown in Schemes 9 and 10, demonstrates the importance of primary phosphines in the design and development of novel organophosphorus compounds. In particular, functionalized hydroxymethyl phosphines have become ubiquitous in the development of water-soluble transition metal/organometallic compounds for potential applications in biphasic aqueous-organic catalysis and also in transition metal based pharmaceutical development [53-62]. Extensive investigations on the coordination chemistry of hydroxymethyl phosphines have demonstrated unique stereospe-cific and kinetic propensity of this class of water-soluble phosphines [53-62]. Representative examples outlined in Fig. 4, depict bidentate and multidentate coordination modes and the unique kinetic propensity to stabilize various oxidation states of metal centers, such as Re( V), Rh(III), Pt(II) and Au(I), in aqueous media [53 - 62]. Therefore, the importance of functionalized primary phosphines in the development of multidentate water-soluble phosphines cannot be overemphasized. 

The stndy and preparation of hollow capsules has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Hollow capsules are of immense interest in a long list of potential applications. These inclnde drug delivery, gene therapy, catalysis, waste removal, acoustic insulation, piezoelectric transducers, and functional materials [14],... 

Apart from the study of physicochemical aspects such as ion solvation, and bio-mimetic aspects such as photosynthesis or carrier-mediated ion transfer (Volkov et al., 1996, 1998), there are several areas of potential applications of electrochemical IBTILE measurements comprising electroanalysis, lipophilicity assessment of drugs, phase transfer catalysis, electro-assisted extraction, and electrocatalysis. 

Frache, A., Gianotti, E. and Marchese, L. (2003) Spectroscopic characterisation of micro-porous aluminophosphate materials with potential application in environmental catalysis, Catal. Today, 77, 371. 

Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers have drawn considerable interest in recent years due to their potential applications in medicine, nanotechnology, and catalysis (6,7). The ability to control dendrimer interior/exterior functionalities and the macromolecular architecture of PAMAM dendrimers... 

Cobaloxime(I) generated by the electrochemical reductions of cobaloxime(III), the most simple model of vitamin Bi2, has been shown to catalyze radical cyclization of bromoacetals.307 Cobalt(I) species electrogenerated from [ConTPP] also catalyze the reductive cleavage of alkyl halides. This catalyst is much less stable than vitamin Bi2 derivatives.296 It has, however, been applied in the carboxylation of benzyl chloride and butyl halides with C02.308 Heterogeneous catalysis of organohalides reduction has also been studied at cobalt porphyrin-film modified electrodes,275,3 9-311 which have potential application in the electrochemical sensing of pollutants. 

Carbenes form stable complexes with many metals in the periodic table of the elements, and gold is no exception. In fact, the chemistry of this class of organogold compounds for some time has been one of the fastest growing subdisciplines. While the corresponding chapters were still short in previous accounts,1 2 the inventory for this review is now particularly rich and diverse.230 As for other classes of carbene complexes, this upsurge is based on expectations for potential applications in various fields such as NLO materials, liquid crystalline phases, and catalysis. Where applicable, this is indicated for each of the entries in this chapter. 

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