Vaca Puga, Alberto; Teixidor, Francesc; Kivekas, Raikko; Sillanpaa, Reijo; Viñas, Clara(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2006)
Tetraiodo-ortho-carborane based X-ray contrast agents can be readily prepared in a high yield, fast, clean, regioselective fashion by a solvent-free reaction of ortho-carboranes with iodine in sealed tubes.
Adamova, Gabriela; Gardas, Ramesh L.; Nieuwenhuyzen, Mark; Vaca Puga, Alberto; Rebelo, Luis Paulo N.; Robertson, Allan J.; Seddon, Kenneth R.(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012)
[EN] A series of alkyltributylphosphonium chloride ionic liquids, prepared from tributylphosphine and the respective 1-chloroalkane, CnH2n+1Cl (where n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 or 14), is reported. This work is ...
Belhocine, Tayeb; Forsyth, Stewart A.; Gunaratne, H. Q. Nimal; Nieuwenhuyzen, Mark; Nockemann, Peter; Vaca Puga, Alberto; Seddon, Kenneth R.; Srinivasan, Geetha; Whiston, Keith(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011)
The seven-member alicyclic secondary amine, azepane, has been used as starting material to
synthesise a new family of room temperature ionic liquids. Such useful transformations of this
coproduct of diamine production ...
Anderson, Kris; Atkins, Martin P; Estager, Julien; Kuah, Yongcheun; Ng, Shieling; Oliferenko, Alexander A.; Plechkova, Natalia V.; Vaca Puga, Alberto; Seddon, Kenneth R.; Wassell, David F.(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015)
[EN] Carbon dioxide solubility in a set of carboxylate ionic liquids formulated with stoicheiometric amounts of water is found to be significantly higher than for other ionic liquids previously reported. This is due to ...
Belhocine, Tayeb; Forsyth, Stewart A.; Gunaratne, H. Q. Nimal; Nieuwenhuyzen, Mark; Vaca Puga, Alberto; Seddon, Kenneth R.; Srinivasan, Geetha; Whiston, Keith(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011)
New ionic liquids based on azepanium and 3-methylpiperidinium cations have been synthesised; they exhibit moderate viscosities and remarkably wide electrochemical windows, thereby showing promise, inter alia, as electrolytes ...
Gunaratne, H. Q. Nimal; Langrick, C. Richard; Vaca Puga, Alberto; Seddon, Kenneth R.; Whiston, Keith(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013)
[EN] Polyetheretherketones were successfully synthesised in an ionic liquid, namely 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis{(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl}amide, by polycondensation reactions of hydroquinone with 4,4'-dihalobenzophenones ...
[EN] New unsymmetrical selenides bearing an o-carborane and a naphthalene ring as the substituents were prepared by the cleavage of the corresponding diselenides. The compounds were characterized by means of spectroscopic ...