Current Inorganic Chemistry (Discontinued) - Volume 6, Issue 3, 2016

Hydrotreating catalysts are commonly used to produce clean fuels through the elimination of heteroatoms compounds. This review examines the existing literature about the effect of the metal active component, supports or additives on the performance of hydrotreating catalysts. It includes: (i) a brief overview of the metal active components and impregnating methods for hydrotreating catalysts. (ii) a summary of the influen Read More

The Mg/Al layered double hydroxides (LDHs) were successfully synthesized by novel aqueous sol-gel method. A series of europium-substituted layered double hydroxides (Mg/Al/Eu LDHs) were also synthesized using the same sol-gel processing. The Eu3+ substitution effects were investigated in the Mg3/Al1-xEux system by changing the amount of Eu3+ in the crystal lattice from 0.05 to 10 mol%. The samples obtai Read More

The objective of the research is an investigation of the most probable structures of lowdimensional hybrid materials constituted by polyvinyl alcohol doped by cadmium halides (viz. CdCl2, CdBr2 and CdI2) through a combined experimental and computational approach. Methods: The properties of the new materials were extensively investigated by means of UV-VIS, IR and Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray Read More

Among several class of molecule-based metal assembled magnetic materials, quasi 2D materials of general molecular formula A[M(II)M(III)(C2O4)3] - first reported by Hisashi Okawa and his group of Japan in 1990 had drawn much interest in the field of molecule-based magnetic materials research. Depending upon the metal ion combinations the nature of magnetic interactions observed are ferro-/ferri-/antiferro- Read More

Background: The chemistry and properties of thiostannates are relatively well explored. Much less is known about oxido-thiostannates or tin-oxo-sulfides which exhibit different structural, chemical and physical properties compared to thiostannates. Moreover, the presence of transition metal complexes in such compound may add additional functionalities. Objective: The potential of oxido-thiostannates or tin-oxo-sulfides can o Read More