• Acetylation of Eugenol over 12-Molybdophosphoric Acid Anchored in Mesoporous Silicate Support Synthesized from Flint Kaolin 

  Nazaré de Oliveira, Alex de; Leite Lima, Erika Tallyta; Terra de Oliveira, Deborah; Simões Angélica, Rômulo; Aguiar Andrade, Eloisa Helena de; Rocha Filho, Geraldo N. da; Ferreira da Costa, Carlos Emmerson; Fernandes Costa, Fabiola; Luque, Rafael; Santos do Nascimento, Luís Adriano (MDPI, 2019)

  A new prepared catalyst, 12-molybdophosphoric acid (HPMo) anchored to the mesoporous aluminosilicate AlSiM, synthesized from Amazon kaolin, was characterized and used as a heterogeneous acid catalyst for the production of ...

• Zeolite-Based Catalysts: A Valuable Approach toward Ester Bond Formation 

  Fattahi, Nadia; Triantafyllidis, Konstantinos; Luque, Rafael; Ramazani, Ali (MDPI, 2019)

  Zeolite-based catalysts are versatile catalytic systems for a wide range of laboratory studies and industrial scale processes. The chemical composition, ion exchange, and pore size structure attributes of zeolites are ...

• Hydrogen Photo-Production from Glycerol Using Nickel-Doped TiO2 Catalysts: Effect of Catalyst Pre-Treatment 

  Hidalgo-Carrillo, J.; Martín-Gómez, Juan; Morales, Julia; Espejo, Juan Carlos; Urbano Navarro, Francisco José; Marinas, Alberto (MDPI, 2019)

  In the present piece of research, hydrogen production via the photo-reforming of glycerol (a byproduct from biodiesel generation) is studied. Catalysts consisted of titania modified by Ni (0.5% by weight) obtained through ...

• Efficient Ru-based scrap waste automotive converter catalysts for the continuous-flow selective hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde 

  Cova, Camilla María; Zuliani, Alessio; Muñoz-Batista, Mario J.; Luque, Rafael (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019)

  The selective, efficient and sustainable continuous flow hydrogenation of a α,β-unsaturated aldehyde, i.e. cinnamaldehyde, to the corresponding unsaturated alcohol, i.e. cinnamyl alcohol, using a novel catalyst based on ...

• Solvent-Free Preparation of 1,8-Dioxo-Octahydroxanthenes Employing Iron Oxide Nanomaterials 

  Rajabi, Fatemeh; Abdollahi, Mohammad; Diarjani, Elham Sadat; Osmolowsky, Mikhail G.; Osmolovskaya, Olga M.; Gómez-López, Paulette; Puente-Santiago, A.R.; Luque, Rafael (MDPI, 2019)

  In this study, 1,8-dioxo-octahydroxanthenes were prepared employing a simple, effective and environmentally sound approach utilizing an iron oxide nanocatalyst under solventless conditions. The proposed iron oxide nanomaterial ...

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