Since environmental pollution caused by chemical and energy industries has increased for
several decades, there is a social expectation that scientists and engineers try to design …

Among ionic liquids, phosphonium-based ionic liquids (PILs) are quite elegant. These
categories of ionic liquids represent some merits over other types of ionic liquids such as …

A very simple and inexpensive catalytic system based on abundant manganese as transition
metal and on an inexpensive phosphine-free bidendate ligand, 2-(aminomethyl) pyridine …

Ionic liquids are generally recognized as highly stable compounds with high thermal
decomposition temperatures and wide electrochemical windows. While the former claim has …

Three gemini ionic liquids namely, 3, 3′-(1, 4-phenylenebis (methylene)) bis (1-alkyl-1H-
imidazol-3-ium) bromide IL 1, IL 2, and IL 3, were prepared and characterized via the …

Since the publication of the first review on trifluoromethanesulfonic (hereinafter triflic) acid
and its derivatives, 1 the chemistry of triflates has become an actively developing field of …

Physical properties like density, viscosity, surface tension and the thermal stability of a series
of pyridinium ionic liquids (ILs) with different cationic structures: 1-ethylpyridinium [C2py], 1 …

Employing a bifunctional catalyst based on a copper (I)/NHC complex and a guanidine
organocatalyst, catalytic ester reductions to alcohols with H2 as terminal reducing agent are …

We present an efficient and versatile visible light-driven methodology to transform aryl
aldehydes and ketones chemoselectively either to alcohols or to pinacol products with …

Polymer-supported Lewis base catalysts, based on the homogeneous isothioureas
HyperBTM and BTM, have been synthesised and applied for the acylative kinetic resolution …