Publications by authors named "Alcina Johnson Sudagar"
We developed a procedure for selective 2,4-dimethylphenol, , direct electro-oxidation to 3,3',5,5'-tetramethyl-2,2'-biphenol, , a C-C coupled product. For that, we used an electrode coated with a product-selective molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP). The procedure is reasonably selective toward without requiring harmful additives or elevated temperatures.
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- The brewing industry produces valuable by-products that are often discarded, despite their rich content in polyphenols and other compounds.
- Limited research has been done on transforming these by-products, highlighting a significant opportunity for valorization.
- This study explores using brewery waste (BW9) to create silver nanocomposites, which showed effective antibacterial properties and differences in composition compared to those made from the main product, beer (B).
Brewery wastes from stage 5 (Wort precipitate: BW5) and stage 7 (Brewer's spent yeast: BW7) were valorized for the synthesis of silver phosphate nanocomposites. Nanoparticles were synthesized by converting silver salt in the presence of brewery wastes at different temperatures (25, 50, and 80 °C) and times (10, 30, and 120 min). Unexpectedly, BW7 yielded AgPO nanoparticles with minor contents of AgCl and Ag metal (Ag).
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