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Adsorption of Heavy Metal Ions from Multi-Ion Solutions Using Polysaccharide Hydrogels Open
Adsorption has been found to be highly effective for removing heavy metals from polluted industrial wastewater. Adsorbents of biological origin, such as negatively charged polysaccharides, e.g., alginate and carrageenan, have attracted a l…
The Greater Sustainability of Stablecoins Relative to Other Cryptocurrencies Open
Cryptocurrencies are decentralized digital financial services that do not physically exist in the world of tangible products and goods, and therefore purportedly offer some positive environmental sustainability features. However, since the…
Cation Effect in Polysaccharide-Based Hydrogel Beads Produced for Europium Adsorption from Aqueous Solutions Open
In recent decades, renewable and biodegradable polysaccharide-based hydrogels have enjoyed wide applicability among them also as adsorbents for heavy metal removal from wastewaters. Herein we prepared hydrogel beads from iota and kappa car…
Selective Sorption of Heavy Metals by Renewable Polysaccharides Open
Renewable and biodegradable polysaccharides have attracted interest for their wide applicability, among them their use as sorbents for heavy metal ions. Their high sorption capacity is due mainly to the acidic groups that populate the poly…
Biosorption of uranyl ions from aqueous solutions by soluble renewable polysaccharides Open
Polysaccharides derived from natural sources have been offered as environment friendly sorbents for the adsorption of uranyl ions.
Effect of reactor configurations on the Suzuki cross-coupling reaction using a carrageenan-based RhCl3 catalyst Open
RhCl3 was heterogenized into an iota-carrageenan polysaccharide support, and the effect of various reactor configurations on catalyst performance in a Suzuki cross-coupling reaction was studied.It was found that performing the reaction in …
The Effect of Alcohol on Palladium Nanoparticles in i-Pd(OAc)2(TPPTS)2 for Aerobic Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohol Open
In the heterogeneous catalyst i-Pd(OAc)2(TPPTS)2, Pd(II) was reduced to Pd(0) by using different alcohol solvents, and the catalyst’s activity was studied in the aerobic oxidation of benzyl alcohol. We studied the effects of the impregnati…
Pd-Based Polysaccharide Hydrogels as Heterogeneous Catalysts for Oxidation of Aromatic Alcohols Open
Immobilization of Pd(OAc)2(TPPTS)2 in various renewable polysaccharides hydrogels, yielded heterogeneous catalysts that were successfully used, for the first time, in the aerobic oxidation of benzylic alcohol. The new catalysts were easily…
Green Procedure for Aerobic Oxidation of Benzylic Alcohols with Palladium Supported on Iota-Carrageenan in Ethanol Open
The search for selective heterogeneous catalysts for the aerobic oxidation of alcohols to ketones and aldehydes has drawn much attention in the last decade. To that end, different palladium-based catalysts have been proposed that use vario…
Acceleration of transfer-hydrogenation of cyclohexene with palladium catalysts in the presence of polysaccharides Open
Transfer hydrogenation of alkenes is a very attractive reduction pathway, as it does not involve hazardous metal hydrides or high pressure hydrogen.It can be easily performed with isopropanol as a solvent and hydrogen donor, using a homoge…
National Strategy for Framing and Prioritizing Environmental Protection Research and Development Topics Open
One of the key methods for implementing the sustainability model in practice includes environmental vision and policy, goal setting, preference areas, and setting environmental research and development (ER&D) priorities. There are differen…
Recent Developments in the Immobilization of Palladium Complexes on Renewable Polysaccharides for Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling of Halobenzenes and Phenylboronic Acids Open
Polysaccharides derived from natural sources exhibit unique structures and functional groups, which have recently garnered them increased attention for their potential applicability as supports for metal catalysts. Renewable polysaccharide…
A Strategic Analysis of National Electricity Generation Alternatives: A Perspective from the Future Open
Climate change and energy policies raise complex issues about intergenerational justice. We conducted a (SWOT) analysis with the objective of evaluating the Israeli strategy for development and prioritization of natural gas (NG) versus ren…
http://www.acgpubs.org/issue/organic-communications/12/3-july-september Open
Novel heterogeneous iota-carrageenan-based palladium catalysts were prepared and used in Suzuki cross coupling, Heck coupling and the transfer hydrogenation of olefins while using various substrates and solvents.In all of these reactions, …
Sustainability Via Servicing: From Individual Action To Institutional Action Open
The servicizing of products constitutes a powerful tool to reduce the environmental footprint of the stages of a product’s physical resources life cycle, ultimately to yield a more sustainable solution. It can be achieved via the co-creati…
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Monetizing Environmental Footprints: Index Development and Application to a Solar-Powered Chemicals Self-Supplied Desalination Plant Open
The assessment of the environmental greenness in the process industry has been quantified by means of the development of an integrated index, i.e., Monetized Footprint Index (MFI), based on the compilation and the integration of land, wate…
Renewable Polysaccharides as Supports for Palladium Phosphine Catalysts Open
The investigation of the use of polysaccharides derived from natural sources to support metal catalysis has been the focus of several studies. Even though these molecules seem to be attractive materials, their full potential for use in sup…
Study of Pd-based catalysts within red algae-derived polysaccharide supports in a Suzuki cross-coupling reaction Open
Simple palladium complexes were heterogenized into red algae derived polysaccharide supports, and the effects of polysaccharide, catalyst and solvent types on the performances in a Suzuki cross-coupling reaction were tested.