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Exploring ionic liquids based on pyrrolidinium and imidazolium cations with low toxicity towards Escherichia coli for designing sustainable bioprocesses (2022)
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Hernández-Fernández, F. J., de los Ríos, A. P., Licence, P., & Stephens, G. (2022). Exploring ionic liquids based on pyrrolidinium and imidazolium cations with low toxicity towards Escherichia coli for designing sustainable bioprocesses. Journal of Biotechnology, 360, 192-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2022.11.001

Ionic liquids (ILs) are widely applied in many bioprocesses involving microorganisms due to their unique properties. In this work, the toxicity of imidazolium and pyrrolidinium ionic liquids towards E. coli., a bacterium for which there are limited t... Read More about Exploring ionic liquids based on pyrrolidinium and imidazolium cations with low toxicity towards Escherichia coli for designing sustainable bioprocesses.

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of morpholinium ionic liquids: impact of a long alkyl side substituent on the cation-anion interactions (2022)
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Men, S., Sun, Y., Licence, P., & Qu, J. (2022). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of morpholinium ionic liquids: impact of a long alkyl side substituent on the cation-anion interactions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(40), 24845-24851. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cp03674f

In this study, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is used to analyse nine morpholinium ionic liquids, which are of great interest in green chemistry because of their low toxicity and high recyclability. The effect of the alkyl chain length on the aliph... Read More about X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of morpholinium ionic liquids: impact of a long alkyl side substituent on the cation-anion interactions.

Groebke-Blackburn-Bienaymé Multicomponent Reaction Catalysed by Reusable Brϕnsted-Acidic Ionic Liquids (2022)
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Anjos, N. S., Chapina, A. I., Santos, A. R., Licence, P., & Longo Junior, L. S. (2022). Groebke-Blackburn-Bienaymé Multicomponent Reaction Catalysed by Reusable Brϕnsted-Acidic Ionic Liquids. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022(40), Article e202200615. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202200615

In the present work, the use of Brϕnsted acidic ionic liquids (BAIL) as catalysts for Groebke-Blackburn-Bienaymé (GBB) multicomponent reactions was systematically investigated. A series of four 1-(butyl-4-sulfonic)-3-methylimidazolium salts bearing d... Read More about Groebke-Blackburn-Bienaymé Multicomponent Reaction Catalysed by Reusable Brϕnsted-Acidic Ionic Liquids.

Rate of Formation of Industrial Lubricant Additive Precursors from Maleic Anhydride and Polyisobutylene (2022)
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Streets, J., Proust, N., Parmar, D., Walker, G., Licence, P., & Woodward, S. (2022). Rate of Formation of Industrial Lubricant Additive Precursors from Maleic Anhydride and Polyisobutylene. Organic Process Research and Development, 26(9), 2749-2755. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.2c00207

The Alder-ene reaction of neat polyisobutylene (PIB) and maleic anhydride (MAA) to produce the industrially important lubricant additive precursor polyisobutylene succinic anhydride (PIBSA) is studied at 150-180 °C. Under anaerobic conditions with [P... Read More about Rate of Formation of Industrial Lubricant Additive Precursors from Maleic Anhydride and Polyisobutylene.

Halometallate ionic liquids: thermal properties, decomposition pathways, and life cycle considerations (2022)
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Clarke, C. J., Baaqel, H., Matthews, R. P., Chen, Y., Lovelock, K. R., Hallett, J. P., & Licence, P. (2022). Halometallate ionic liquids: thermal properties, decomposition pathways, and life cycle considerations. Green Chemistry, 24(15), 5800-5812. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2gc01983c

Halometallate ionic liquids provide new opportunities for industrial catalytic processes because of their unique blend of physical and chemical properties. Tunability underpins the success of ionic liquids because small structural changes can have dr... Read More about Halometallate ionic liquids: thermal properties, decomposition pathways, and life cycle considerations.

Nucleophilic Fluorination Catalyzed by a Cyclometallated Rhodium Complex (2022)
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Morgan, P. J., Saunders, G. C., Macgregor, S. A., Marr, A. C., & Licence, P. (2022). Nucleophilic Fluorination Catalyzed by a Cyclometallated Rhodium Complex. Organometallics, 41(7), 883–891. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00052

Quantitative catalytic nucleophilic fluorination of a range of acyl chlorides to acyl fluorides was promoted by a cyclometallated rhodium complex [(η5,κ2C-C5Me4CH2C6F5CH2NC3H2NMe)- RhCl] (1). 1 can be prepared in high yields from commercially availab... Read More about Nucleophilic Fluorination Catalyzed by a Cyclometallated Rhodium Complex.

High Yielding Continuous-Flow Synthesis of Norketamine (2022)
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Hernando, M. V., Moore, J. C., Howie, R. A., Castledine, R. A., Bourne, S. L., Jenkins, G. N., …George, M. W. (2022). High Yielding Continuous-Flow Synthesis of Norketamine. Organic Process Research and Development, 26(4), 1145-1151. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.1c00407

A new continuous-flow process is presented for synthesis of the pharmaceutical intermediate norketamine (5). Our approach has been to take the well-established and industrially applied batch synthetic route to this promising antidepressant precursor... Read More about High Yielding Continuous-Flow Synthesis of Norketamine.

Diffuse Reflection Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy and Partial Least Squares Regression Analysis for Temperature Prediction of Irreversible Thermochromic Paints (2022)
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Kitagawa, A., Welsh, C., Mackilligin, H., & Licence, P. (2022). Diffuse Reflection Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy and Partial Least Squares Regression Analysis for Temperature Prediction of Irreversible Thermochromic Paints. Applied Spectroscopy, https://doi.org/10.1177/00037028211065759

Temperature measurement of internal components of a jet engine is a crucial control parameter to ensure its component life and efficiency. Particularly for thermal analysis of internal components of jet engines, irreversible thermochromic paints (TPs... Read More about Diffuse Reflection Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy and Partial Least Squares Regression Analysis for Temperature Prediction of Irreversible Thermochromic Paints.