Aqueous Integrated Process for the Recovery of Oil Bodies or Fatty Acid Emulsions from Sunflower Seeds.

An aqueous integrated process was developed to obtain several valuable products from sunflower seeds. With a high-shear rate crusher, high-pressure homogenization and centrifugation, it is possible to process 600× of seeds in 1400× of water to obtain a concentrated cream phase with a dry matter (dm) content of 46%, consisting of 74 (/ dm) lipids in the form of an oil-body dispersion (droplet size d(0.5): 2.

B-H, C-H, and B-C bond activation: the role of two adjacent agostic interactions.

Tuning the nature of the linker in a L~BHR phosphinoborane compound led to the isolation of a ruthenium complex stabilized by two adjacent, δ-C-H and ε-B(sp2)-H, agostic interactions. Such a unique coordination mode stabilizes a 14-electron "RuH2P2" fragment through connected σ-bonds of different polarity, and affords selective B-H, C-H, and B-C bond activation as illustrated by reactivity studies with H2 and boranes.