Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Gas-Phase Reactions of Germyl Radicals with NF: Homolytic Substitution at the Nitrogen Atom vs Fluorine Abstraction.

In this paper, we report on the unexplored reaction mechanisms of bimolecular homolytic substitution (S2) between GeH radicals and the nitrogen atom of NF. The S2 reactions are studied both experimentally and theoretically with ab initio and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The experimental results of X-ray irradiation of mixtures of GeH and NF show the formation of GeH-NF and GeH-F.

Processed vs. non-processed biowastes for agriculture: effects of post-harvest tomato plants and biochar on radish growth, chlorophyll content and protein production.

The aim of this work was to address the issue of processed vs. non-processed biowastes for agriculture, by comparing materials widely differing for the amount of process energy consumption. Thus, residual post harvest tomato plants (TP), the TP hydrolysates obtained at pH 13 and 60 °C, and two known biochar products obtained by 650 °C pyrolysis were prepared.