The recycling of end-of-life plastics is a problem, since small parts can be returned into circulation. The rest is burned, landfilled or recycled into low-quality heating oil by pyrolysis methods. The disadvantages of this method are the need to dispose the formed by-product, pyrolytic carbon, the poor quality of produced liquid fuel and the low productivity of the method associated with the periodicity of the process. In this work, methods of thermogravimetry and chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) have been used to study the co-pyrolysis products of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and oxygen-containing substances at the pressures of 4–8 MPa and temperatures of 520–620 °C. Experiments have highlighted the conditions needed for producing of high-quality liquid fuel. Initial data have been prepared for the design of a continuous pyrolysis reactor to dispose polymer waste for the production of bio-oil which would be available to enter the petrochemical products market.
An efficient and easy approach to the synthesis of novel racemic planar-chiral 3,4-dihydroferroceno[c]pyridines and 1H-ferroceno[c]pyrroles via the intramolecular Ritter reaction of 2-ferrocenyl-3,3-dimethylbutan-2-ol with nitriles and thiocyanates in the presence of MeSO3H was developed. Aromatic and aliphatic nitriles, phenylacetonitriles, and β-oxonitriles produced exclusively 3,4-dihydroferroceno[c]pyridines. The condensation of 2-ferrocenyl-3,3-dimethylbutan-2-ol with various thiocyanates, including alkyl thiocyanates, benzyl thiocyanate, and ethyl 2-thiocyanatoacetate, yielded not only 3,4-dihydroferroceno[c]pyridines but also 1H-ferroceno[c]pyrroles. The selectivity of these reactions depended on the temperature and the order of addition. The size of substituents at the α-position to the sulfur atom of thiocyanates also had a significant effect on the distribution of products.
1 January 2019 in Вестник Пермского университета. Серия «Биология»=Bulletin of Perm University. Biology