In this modern era, it’s quite difficult to imagine our society without plastics. Nowadays consumption as well as production of polymers are increased which creates huge amount of polymer waste creating environmental problems. There are various routes to convert the waste to energy in terms of...

The catalytic activity of theMFe2O4 spinel (M ¼ Mn, Co, Cu, Ni, Zn) was investigated for the oxidation of benzylic alcohols to respective carbonyls using tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as an oxidant. The combination of CoFe2O4/TBHP in a dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) catalytic system was found to be...

The plastic industry generates enormous quantities of plastics at projected rates (both production and consumption) which can significantly threaten our environment in terms of plastic waste generation. High density polyethylene (HDPE) is one of the main fractions of municipal solid waste which...

Nanocrystalline phase pure CeCrO3 was synthesized by a two step preparation method. The prepared material was characterized by techniques such as X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HR-TEM), EDX and SEM analysis. The catalytic activity of CeCrO3 was...

A simple and environmentally benign synthesis of 2-amino-4H-chromene is described using hydrotalcite as a solid base catalyst in aqueous medium. The catalysts were prepared by a co-precipitation method and well characterized by various techniques such as XRD, FT-IR, SEM and the basicity was found...

Various cyclic systems containing active methylene sites are converted to ketones with a high level of selectivity under the optimized conditions

The catalytic activity of the manganese oxide was investigated for the oxidative functionalization of alkylaromatics to benzylic ketones using tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as an oxidant. Manganese oxides of different types were tested for this reaction. Of all the oxides, the nano amorphous...