In order to prepare amides under moderate and environment-friendly conditions using Beckmann rearrangement, we replaced traditional liquid-acid catalysts with Nafion perfluorinated sulphonic acid resins. We used diphenylketone oxime as the template substrate and carried out exper...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/39785
This research is a systematic study of how Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) affects the thermal properties and surface morphology of Poly(L-lactic acid)(PLLA)/Chitosan blend by acting as reinforcement agent. MCC has high strength, high stiffness and high strain used for this work...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/39549
This work demonstrates the successful utilization of the Egyptalum company solid waste (slag) for recovery of high-efficiency γ-alumina to be applied as an effective adsorption medium for nitrate uptake from its aqueous solutions. The composite of the sorbent was characterized by...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/38221
A carbazole-based monomer, 2-(9-ethylcarbazol-3-yliminomethyl)phenol (SIC), was first synthesized and characterized. It was afterward polymerized by potentiostatic methods. Oxidative polymerization of SIC was carried out in two media. The first one (i.e. Bu4NBF4 (0.1M)/MeCN) give...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/38163
The inhibitive action of leaves, stem and root extracts of Alternanthera bettzickiana on mild steel corrosion in 5 M H2SO4 solutions was studied using gravimetric technique in the temperature range 30°C to 60°C. Maximum inhibition efficiency (and surface coverage) was obtained at...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/38165
In this work, raw red mud was treated with distilled water and its methylene blue (MB) removal efficiency from aqueous solution evaluated and compared to that of raw red mud. The pH, surface charge, particle size distribution, chemical composition, infrared spectrometry and morph...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/37714
In liquid-liquid and solid-liquid systems, it is possible to promote chemical precipitation of certain species by controlling the physicochemical conditions of the liquid media. In the case of solid-liquid interactions the chemical precipitates can absorb on the surface of partic...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/37905
The corrosion inhibition potential of an antibiotic drug called moxifloxacin for API 5L X-52 steel in 2 M HCl solution was investigated using experimental (gravimetric and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy) and theoretical approaches. Results obtained from gravimetric and el...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/37782
3D-QSAR (CoMFA and CoMSIA) and Surflex-docking studies were employed on a series of triazole as CB1 cannabinoid receptor ligand as anti-obesity agents. The CoMFA and CoMSIA models using 20 compounds in the training set gave Q2 values of 0.9 and 0.93, and r2 values of 0.98 and 0.9...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/37695
Aims: The present study involved the synthesis of heterocycylic Schiff bases and their biological activity. Study Design: Synthesizing some new 4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5-one derivatives and determining their chemical structure via IR and NMR spectroscopy. The synthesized com...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/37845
The model system simulating oxidation of sulfuric-alkaline drains is investigated. The mutual influence of processes of joint oxidation of sulfide-anion and cysteine, revealed strong alkaline environments both at the presence, and in the absence of the catalyst, causes occurrent...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/37881
A computational study on 2-(2-heptadecyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-1-yl) ethan-1-ol (HDDH) was carried out to determine the adsorption/corrosion inhibitive potential at the temperatures of 60ºC and 80 ºC on iron surface using the Material Studio software. For this purpose, Molecula...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/37402
This work reports on the catalytic efficiency of the micelle templated silica based supported palladium catalysts. The supports were prepared by one-pot co-condensation of organoaminesilanes and tetraethoxysilane with 1:4 and 1:9 loading ratios in presence of castor oil template....
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/36966
¶This work aims is to find means to improve the solubility of the not very water soluble organic pollutants.¶ ¶For that, we made a study of solubilization of a not very water soluble organophosphorus insecticide, and in weak concentrations in the ionic micellar systems, in the pr...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/37087
A series of 2-(2-arylamino-4-phenylthiazol-5-yl)benzofurans derivatives were synthesized from 1-aryl-3-(N-phenylbenzimidoyl)thiourea and 2-(2-bromoacetyl)benzofuran in the presence of triethylamine. Their structure was established on the basis of IR, 1H NMR and mass spectral ana...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/36069