Professor WANG Aiqin from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was appointed member of the editorial board of Chemical Engineering Research and Design (ChERD, www.icheme.org/journals).
The N-alkylation of amines or ammonia with alcohols is a valuable route for the synthesis of N-alkyl amines. However, as a potentially clean and economic choice for N-alkyl amine synthesis, heterogeneous non-noble metal catalysts with high activity and good generality are rarely reported.
Attapulgite clay is a kind of alumina magnesia silicate with attapulgite as its main component. The special morphology of rod-like crystals has given attapulgite clay wide application in areas such as functional composite materials. However, due to the difference in mineralized geological environment, the growth of rod-like crystal of attapulgit...
As a kind of important organic reaction intermediate, isocyanate is the main raw materials to synthesize polyurethane and it has been widely used in industrial, agricultural, pharmaceutical fields. Traditionally, isocyanate is synthesized through the reaction between amine compounds and phosgene. However, phosgene is a kind of highly toxic compo...
