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- noun Plural form of
epoxide .
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Singapore report they were able to couple CO2 with molecules called "epoxides" to form polycarbonates.
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In 1980 he carried out successful experiments that led to a practical method for the catalytic asymmetric oxidation of allylic alcohols to chiral epoxides.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public 2001
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The process uses a proprietary cobalt-based catalyst to bond carbon dioxide recaptured from ethanol manufacturing plants to epoxides derived from oil and natural gas.
Inc.com 2010
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The technology, licensed from Harvard University, where chemist Eric Jacobsen developed it, offers an efficient route to various chiral diols and epoxides that are key building blocks for pharmaceuticals.
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Novomer's process works by employing a zinc-based catalyst to bond environmental by-products such as CO2 to liquid epoxides (a highly reactive ether) in a reactor that produces the same result as a pressure cooker, albeit with less energy required in terms of temperature and pressure.
Scientific American 2009
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The focus then shifts to a systematic presentation of the various substrates classes, namely carboxylic esters, amides and peptides, lactams and lactones, esters of inorganic acids, alkene and arene epoxides, and some miscellaneous hydrolyzable moieties.
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A.Q.H.; De Bont, J.A.M.: Inactivation of alkene oxidation by epoxides in alkene - and alkane-grown bacteria.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows arab2000.forumpro.fr@slideshare.net(arab2000.forum 2009
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Novomer's process works by employing a zinc-based catalyst to bond environmental by-products such as CO2 to liquid epoxides (a highly reactive ether) in a reactor that produces the same result as a pressure cooker, albeit with less energy required in terms of temperature and pressure.
Scientific American 2009
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The three cyclohexene epoxides, (+) - pandoxide (17), (+) - b-senepoxide (18) and (-) - pipoxide (19), isolated from
Chapter 7 1991
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Myricetin was a highly potent inhibitor of the mutagenic activity of bay-region diol-epoxides of benzo [a] pyrene, dibenzo [a, h] pyrene and dibenzo [a, i] pyrene, but higher concentrations of myricetin were needed to inhibit the mutagenicity of the chemically less reactive benzo [a] pyrene 4,5-oxide and bay region diol-epoxides of benz [a] anthracene, chrysene and benzo [c] phenanthrene.
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010
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