{"title":"An efficient electrochemical sensor based on transition metal sulfides for the detection of flufenamic acid","authors":"Rex Shanlee Santhiyagu Sahayaraj , Ruspika Sundaresan , Shen-Ming Chen , Balaji Ramachandran , Narendhar Chandrasekar","doi":"10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Transition metal sulfides (TMS) have been receiving specific attention due to their excellent physiochemical properties and electrochemical activity. In this article, we demonstrate the synthesis of sea-urchin-like Bi<sub>2</sub>S<sub>3</sub> combined with MoS<sub>2</sub> hierarchical nanoflowers via a hydrothermal route for electrochemical sensing of Flufenamic acid (FMA). FMA is one of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) which endangers human health. The Bi<sub>2</sub>S<sub>3</sub>/MoS<sub>2</sub> composite's formation was confirmed by various characterizations via microscopic and spectroscopic techniques. The synergistic effect between the two metal sulfides improves electron transport and enables more active sites. Under optimal conditions, the resultant nanocomposite exhibits a high sensitivity value (0.44 μA μM<sup>−1</sup> cm<sup>−2</sup>), a reasonable limit of detection (0.009 μM), and a broad linear range (0.01 – 453 μM). Furthermore, the electrochemical detection of FMA in biological samples was achieved with good reliability and decent recovery.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100233,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry of Inorganic Materials","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49730442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mehulkumar L. Savaliya , Ravi S. Tank , Bharatkumar Z. Dholakiya
{"title":"Rational design of hierarchically porous sulfonic acid and silica hybrids with highly active sites for efficient catalytic biodiesel synthesis","authors":"Mehulkumar L. Savaliya , Ravi S. Tank , Bharatkumar Z. Dholakiya","doi":"10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Catalysis is the vertebra of most of commercial processes, which utilizes chemical reactions to transform reagents into value added chemicals. Biodiesel synthesis from animal fats and edible vegetable oils via transesterification over homogeneous catalysts is recently taken into account of untenable by the emerging biofuel industries, particularly by virtue of food <em>vs.</em> fuel counteraction, economic and environmental challenges blended with the feedstocks as well as catalytic systems, respectively. Therefore, present efforts concern with the preparation of a novel PTSA-Si catalyst and its relevance for biodiesel synthesis from non-food castor oil. It has been manifested from the experimental outcomes, the most relevant reaction parameters are, 5% PTSA-Si <em>(w/w)</em>, 65 °C reaction temperature, 1:11 O:M molar ratio and 10 h reaction time for 98.56% biodiesel yield. The PTSA-Si was appropriately analyzed using FT-IR, SEM, XRD, BET, TGA-DTA and TPD-NH<sub>3</sub> analysis. Since, castor oil and castor biodiesel were analyzed using FT-IR, <sup>1</sup>H &<sup>13</sup>C NMR analysis. Besides, biodiesel physico-chemical properties were predicted and associated with ASTM fuel standards.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100233,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry of Inorganic Materials","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100005"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49707242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ju Huang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yuxue Wei, Lisheng Guo, Jiuyi Liu, Chenghua Zhang, Zhaoming Xue, Song Sun
{"title":"Layered double hydroxides derived CuFe-based catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to long-chain hydrocarbons","authors":"Ju Huang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yuxue Wei, Lisheng Guo, Jiuyi Liu, Chenghua Zhang, Zhaoming Xue, Song Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation to yield long-chain hydrocarbons has attracted tremendous attention in both academic and industrial field. CuFe-based bimetal catalysts have been widely applied in CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation owing to their low cost, facile preparation, and excellent performance. In this study, a series of CuFe-based catalysts with different Cu/Fe molar ratios have been synthesized from layered double hydroxide precursor. The optimized CuFe<sub>8</sub>-LDO catalyst with Cu:Fe=1:8 exhibits a C<sub>5+</sub> selectivity of 45% at CO<sub>2</sub> conversion of 9.5%. Through systematic characterizations including TEM, TPR, TPD, XPS, it is revealed the abundant and highly dispersed CuO favors the reduction of iron species, and enhances CO adsorption capacity of as-prepared catalysts. This study provides an in-deep understanding of Cu on CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation performance of Fe-based catalysts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100233,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry of Inorganic Materials","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49707240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ru(II) complexes containing NOO donors of tridentate Schiff base ligands: Synthesis, characterization, crystal structure and catalytic activity in transfer hydrogenation of ketones","authors":"Premkumar Muniyappan , Vijayan Paranthaman , Venkatachalam Galmari","doi":"10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A new series of pincer type ruthenium(II) Schiff base complexes namely [Ru(CO)(PPh<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>(L<sub>1‒6</sub>)] (<strong>1–6</strong>) (where, L<sub>1‒6</sub> = NOO ‒ donors of tri-dentate ligands) have been synthesized from ruthenium precursor such as [RuHCl(CO)(PPh<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub>] containing tri-dentate Schiff bases ligands (H<sub>2</sub>L<sub>1</sub>‒H<sub>2</sub>L<sub>6</sub>). These ruthenium complexes were analyzed by elemental analysis and diverse characterizations such as FT‒IR, UV–Vis and NMR (<sup>1</sup>H and <sup>31</sup>P) spectroscopy studies. The crystal structure of one of the complexes <strong>5</strong> ([Ru(CO)(PPh<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>L<sub>5</sub>]) was determined by single crystal X‒ray crystallography that revealed pincer type of coordination mode of complexes. Furthermore, complexes <strong>1</strong>–<strong>6</strong> have been utilized for transfer hydrogenation of aromatic ketones to secondary alcohols in the presence of <em>i</em>‒PrOH/KOH. The catalytic efficiency of complexes showed an efficient for transfer hydrogenation of ketones with alcohol as moderate to high conversions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100233,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry of Inorganic Materials","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49730486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bandgap tuning and analysis of the electronic structure of the Cu2NiXS4 (X=Sn, Ge, Si) system: mBJ accuracy with DFT expense","authors":"Dilshod Nematov","doi":"10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The energy bands and band gaps of Cu<sub>2</sub>NiXS<sub>4</sub> (X = Sn, Ge, Si) semiconductor materials have been studied and analyzed by using quantum-chemical calculations within the DFT framework. Using different exchange-correlation functionals, the energy gaps of the studied systems were estimated and determined, and their band structure were studied in detail. Based on the results of spin-polarized and spin-orbit mBJ-calculations, bands of t2g states and direct band gaps with values of 1.32, 1.56, and 2.58 eV, were found for Cu<sub>2</sub>NiSnS<sub>4</sub>, Cu<sub>2</sub>NiGeS<sub>4</sub>, and Cu<sub>2</sub>NiSiS<sub>4</sub>, respectively, indicating the suitability of these materials as a suitable light-absorbing layer for a new generation solar cells.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100233,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry of Inorganic Materials","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49707713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G.O. Obaiah , Kemparajegowda , J. Gireesha , M. Mylarappa
{"title":"Comparative study of TiO2 and palladium doped TiO2 nano catalysts for water purification under solar and ultraviolet irradiation","authors":"G.O. Obaiah , Kemparajegowda , J. Gireesha , M. Mylarappa","doi":"10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cinorg.2023.100002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The photo degradation of Congo red (CR) with TiO<sub>2</sub> and TiO<sub>2</sub> doped with Pd was investigated. The TiO<sub>2</sub> and Pd doped TiO<sub>2</sub> nanoparticles were created through solution combustion with glycine as the fuel, and their band gap was determined using UV absorption spectroscopy. All experiments were conducted in natural Sunlight and UV light. Both nanoparticles degraded rapidly at 20 ppm dye concentration and 0.1 g/1000 ml catalyst concentration. It demonstrates that synthesized TiO<sub>2</sub> and Pd doped TiO<sub>2</sub> nanoparticles can degrade Congo red in an aqueous solution.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100233,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry of Inorganic Materials","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49730483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}