An electrochemical method for coupling anilines. When coupling two different anilines, the difference of the oxidation potential of the substrates is in the region of between 10 mV to 450 mV, and the aniline with the highest oxidation potential is added in excess. The method allows biaryldiamines to be electrochemically produced, and can avoid the need for multi-step syntheses using metallic reagents.

A method for converting carboxylic acids (including carboxylic acids derived from biomass) into hydrocarbons. The produced hydrocarbons will generally have at least two oxygen containing substituents (or other substituents). In one example of application, the electrolysis converts alkali salts of carboxylic acids into diols which can then be used as solvents or be dehydrated to produce dienes, which can then be used to produce elastic polymeric materials. This process allows custom synthesis of high value chemicals from renewable feed stocks such as carboxylic acids derived from biomass.

An electrochemical conversion method for converting at least a portion of a first mixture comprising hydrocarbon to C.sub.2+ unsaturates by repeatedly applying an electric potential difference, V(.sub.1), to a first electrode of an electrochemical cell during a first time interval .sub.1; and reducing the electric potential difference, V(.sub.1), to a second electric potential difference, V(.sub.2), for a second time interval .sub.2, wherein .sub.2.sub.1. The method is beneficial, among other things, for reducing coke formation in the electrochemical production of C.sub.2+ unsaturates in an electrochemical cell. Accordingly, a method of reducing coke formation in the electrochemical conversion of such mixtures and a method for electrochemically converting carbon to C.sub.2+ unsaturates as well as an apparatus for such methods are also provided.

Devices and methods that can detect and control an individual polymer in a mixture is acted upon by another compound, for example, an enzyme, in a nanopore are provided. The devices and methods also determine (?>50 Hz) the nucleotide base sequence of a polynucleotide under feedback control or using signals generated by the interactions between the polynucleotide and the nanopore. The invention is of particular use in the fields of molecular biology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular switches, molecular circuits, and molecular computational devices, and the manufacture thereof.

Devices and methods that can detect and control an individual polymer in a mixture is acted upon by another compound, for example, an enzyme, in a nanopore are provided. The devices and methods also determine (?>50 Hz) the nucleotide base sequence of a polynucleotide under feedback control or using signals generated by the interactions between the polynucleotide and the nanopore. The invention is of particular use in the fields of molecular biology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular switches, molecular circuits, and molecular computational devices, and the manufacture thereof.

Devices and methods that can detect and control an individual polymer in a mixture is acted upon by another compound, for example, an enzyme, in a nanopore are provided. The devices and methods also determine (?>50 Hz) the nucleotide base sequence of a polynucleotide under feedback control or using signals generated by the interactions between the polynucleotide and the nanopore. The invention is of particular use in the fields of molecular biology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular switches, molecular circuits, and molecular computational devices, and the manufacture thereof.

Novel 2,2-diaminobiaryls having two secondary amines and an electrochemical process for preparation thereof.

Methods, equipment, and reagents for preparing organic compounds using custom electrolytes based on different ionic liquids in electrolytic decarboxylation reactions are disclosed.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing compounds of the formula ABA ##STR00001## by reacting a compound of the formula (A) ##STR00002## with a compound of the formula (B) ##STR00003## with X=OR or NHR and R=H or a protecting group function and R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 are each independently selected from the group comprising hydrogen, (C.sub.1-C.sub.12)-alkyl, O(C.sub.1-C.sub.12)-alkyl, (C.sub.6-C.sub.20)-aryl, O(C.sub.6-C.sub.20)-aryl, where two of the R.sup.1 to R.sup.4 radicals may also be joined via a covalent bond, and halogen, which is characterized in that the reaction is conducted electrochemically.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing unsymmetric compounds from the group of the m-terphenyls which can be used as unsymmetric OCO pincer ligands, comprising the process steps of a) reacting a first substituted or unsubstituted phenol with a 1,3-disubstituted arene which may likewise be substituted in the 2 and 5 positions to obtain a phenol-arene coupling product and b) optionally protecting the OH group of the phenol-arene coupling product with a protecting group to obtain a protected phenol-arene coupling product, and c) reacting the phenol-arene coupling product from a) or b) with a second substituted or unsubstituted phenol to obtain an unsymmetric m-terphenyl, with the proviso that the first phenol and the second phenol have different substitution, characterized in that at least one of process steps a) and c) is conducted as an electrochemical process step.