Transition metals, which are of diversity in their bonding orbitals, have a variety of significant
oxidation states and more complex chemical properties compared to the main group metals …

Methanol is used as a common solvent, cost‐effective reagent, and sustainable feedstock for
value‐added chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and materials. Among the various applications …

Lignocellulose, the main component of agricultural and forestry waste, harbours tremendous
potential as a renewable starting material for future biorefinery practices. However, this …

Biomass resources have infinite possibilities for introducing nitrogen, sulfur, or phosphorus
heteroatoms into their structures by virtue of controllable carbon–heteroatom bond …

Dedicated the memory of Akademician Valery Vasilievich Lunin, a friend, colleague,
teacher, founder and leader of the research into application of supercritical fluids in …

The use of abundantly available transition metals in reactions that have been preferentially
mediated by rare noble metals, for example, hydrogenations, is a desirable aim in catalysis …

Herein, we report commercially available carbon-supported-palladium (Pd/C)-catalyzed N-
methylation of nitroarenes and amines using MeOH as both a C1 and a H2 source. This …

Methanol is a potential hydrogen source and C1 synthon, which finds interesting
applications in both chemical synthesis and energy technologies. The effective utilization of …

The direct conversion of ethanol to higher value 1-butanol is a catalytic transformation of
great interest in light of the expected wide availability of bioethanol originating from the …

We report herein the selective N-methylation of amines and nitroarenes with methanol under
basic conditions using carbon-supported Pt nanoparticles (Pt/C) as a heterogeneous …