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Novel fatty acid-based bis 5-membered carbonates for a non-isocyante route to polyurethanes.

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Palladium nanoparticles stabilized by choline-based ionic liquids in glycerol were prepared from Pd(II) precursors by simply heating at 80 °C under argon; in this process, the water present in the ionic liquid was found to be the responsible for the reduction of Pd(II) into zero-valent palladium species. Palladium nanoparticles were fully characterized in both liquid phase and solid state. The as-prepared metal nanoparticles exhibited remarkable catalytic activity in hydrogenation processes for a significant variety of functional groups (alkenes, alkynes, nitro derivatives, benzaldehydes, aromatic ketones). Highlights  Palladium nanoparticles in glycerol stabilized by novel choline-based ionic liquids.  Characterization of palladium nanoparticles both in solid and liquid phase.  Palladium nanoparticles showing high catalytic activity in hydrogenation reactions.  Selective hydrogenations for non-conjugated alkynes.  Efficient reduction of carbonyl derivatives.

The nature and strength of the interactions occurring between epoxides and CO(2) have been investigated by combining infrared spectroscopy with quantum chemistry calculations. A series of infrared absorption experiments on four model epoxide molecules highly diluted in supercritical CO(2) have been performed at constant temperature T = 40 °C for various CO(2) pressures varying from 1 to 30 MPa. Then, we carried out a theoretical analysis based on quantum chemistry calculations using Density Functional Theory (B3PW91 and CAM-B3LYP) and ab initio (MP2) computational methods. A very good agreement between experimental and calculated vibrational frequency shifts of the epoxide ring vibrations group was obtained using the CAM-B3LYP functional, hence validating the calculated optimized geometries of the epoxide-CO(2) complexes. Whatever the epoxide considered, CO(2) is found to be on average above the oxygen atom of the epoxy ring and interacts with the carbon atom of CO(2) through a Lewis acid-Lewis base type of interaction. The substituents on the epoxide ring are found to influence the stability of the epoxide-CO(2) complexes mainly because of the partial charge on the oxygen atom that is sensitive to the nature of the substituent.

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