Pyrolytic reactions oxygen derivatives

Despite the authors assertion that alkylated heteroaromatic compounds provide a better model for fuel-bound nitrogen than do the unsubstituted heterocycles, their pyrolytic study remains the most comprehensive look at substituted heteroaromatic chemistry, even several years later/ Kinetic studies are more common in the literature Frerichs et al. examined the reaction of the picolines with oxygen atom, while Yeung and Elrod studied reactions of HO with pyridine and its methyl- and ethyl-substituted derivatives.Both groups noted that the presence of nitrogen did not demonstrably affect the species chemistry generally, reactivity is comparable to toluene. 

In previous papers we have shown that anthracycline adriamycin (ADM) and its derivatives are strongly adsorbed on electrode surfaces and that the two-electron redox reaction of the anthraquinone moiety occurs through its semiquinone radical intermediate even in aqueous media. In addition, we have found characteristic reduction waves of molecular oxygen catalyzed by ADM and 7-deoxyadriamycinone (7-DADMN) adsorbed on basal-plane pyrolytic graphite electrode (BPGE) surfaces this report, we... 

Mechanisms related to cellulose-derived biofuels focus on the chemistry offuran derivatives. Beyond the unimolecular decompositions and oxidative reactions discussed previously in this section, furan derivatives can undergo a wide variety of other reactions. They are transformed by pyrolytic, hydrolytic, and other chemical processes to longer chain ethers (R1OR2) and aldols (hydroxyaldehydes and hydroxyketones, Ri(0H)R2C(0)R3). These oxygenated species are then converted through hydrogenation and deoxygenation processes to liquid HC fuels (alkanes). 

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