In this work, activated carbons (ACs) with different oxidation degrees were fabricated and applied for phenol and resorcinol adsorption to systematically evaluate the adsorption mechanisms. The kinetics and isotherms at different temperatures were carried out to evaluate the adsorption rate and ...

Resorcinol is a suspected endocrine disruptor that affects thyroid function by inhibiting thyroxin peroxidase. It may also have an impact on iodine uptake. Resorcinol has various uses; for example in the manufacture of rubber products and in wood adhesives, flame retardants, UV stabilizers, and ...

Gas templating of gels is a novel route in the know-how technology of templating porous gels. This technology depends basically on infusing certain gases into the media of sol-gel reaction upon the gelation process. The templated products have noticeable changes that depend on the synthesis cond...

Successive interaction of pentafluorobenzonitrile with resorcinol, orcinol and tetrafluororesorcinol in Et3N−CH3CN system gives fluorinated tetraoxacalix[4]arenes ABAB and ABAC type in a good yield. Further reaction of obtained products with new additional equivalent of tetrafluororesorcinol or ...

We report the facile synthesis of N-doped carbon-graphene-manganese oxide (N/C-G-MnO) that can serve as precious metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The N/C-G-MnO is synthesized via polymerization of m-phenylenediamine adsorbed on graphene using KMnO4 as the oxidant,...

Poly(m-phenylenediamine) (PmPD) with different oxidation state was successfully synthesized by the improved chemically oxidative polymerization. The function of oxidation state on Cr(VI) adsorption was systematically examined through adsorption experiments. Results showed that the Cr(VI) adsorpt...

Poly(o-phenylenediamine) decorated (M = Bi or La) MVO4 (MVO4@PoPD) nanocomposites (NCs) have been prepared through chemical oxidative polymerization approach. Microstructural analyses of MVO4@PoPD NCs were performed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM)...

A novel efficient adsorbent of bacterial cellulose/poly(m-phenylenediamine (BC/PmPD) was prepared for Cr(VI) removal by combining the advantages of high adsorption capacity of PmPD and easy reclamation of BC. Through monomer (mPD) pre-adsorption on BC, the stable hybrid structure of PmPD nanopar...

In this paper, we demonstrated a fluorescent o-phenylenediamine–m-phenylenediamine copolymer sensing system, which was synthesized by a facile and one-step hydrothermal method. The copolymer was first used as fluorescent probe for the detection of Chromium(VI) ion (Cr6+) and showed high selecti...

The emerging pollutant non-steroidal diclofenac sodium (DCF) has aroused increasing concerns, and the efficient removal of DCF from wastewater is becoming an urgent problem. In this study, the Mg/Al layered double hydroxide-Poly(m-Phenylenediamine) (LDH-PmPD) composite was synthesized, character...

In this study, electrocatalytic sensing of gallic acid (GA) with poly(m-phenylenediamine) (PmPD) electrodeposited on the nanocomposites of palygorskite (Pal) and ionic liquid (IL) was reported. The PmPD/Pal-IL modified electrode showed a low limit of detection (LOD) of 0.28 μM and a wide linear...

Supramolecular self-assembly is an effective method to assemble organic and inorganic units into various hierarchical structures with excellent properties and is widely used in material and life science. In this article, the self-assembled hollow-sphere and core-in-hollow-shell nanostructures co...

In this study, the solubility of m-phenylenediamine in four pure solvents (methanol, ethanol, acetonitrile and water) and three binary solvent (methanol + water), (ethanol + water) and (acetonitrile + water) systems were determined in the temperature ranging from 278.15 K to 313.15 K by using th...

Synthesis of high-quality carbon nanosheets with superior physicochemical properties is of particular importance for environmental and catalytic applications. In this research, carbon nanosheets with tunable porosity were successfully synthesized using two-dimensional (2D) poly(m-phenylenediamin...

Microwave spectra of o- and m-toluidine were recorded in a pulsed supersonic jet using chirped pulse techniques. The spectra show both torsional and 14N quadrupole splittings at high resolution. From the torsional splittings, barrier heights were determined of 531 cm−1 and 2.0 cm−1 respectively....

Densities ρ and speeds of sound u, of binary mixtures formed by o-toluidine or m-toluidine with diisopropyl ether (DIPE) or oxolane have been measured over the entire range of composition at a temperature of (303.15, 313.15 and 323.15) K and atmospheric pressure. The ρ and u values were used t...

In this work, for the first time an aqueous solution of Triton X-100 (TX-100) non-ionic surfactant is used as an additive for electropolymerization of m-toluidine (MT) onto multi-walled carbon nanotube paste electrode (CNTPE), which is investigated as a novel matrix for dispersion of platinum pa...

In this work, m-toluidine is electropolymerized at the surface of carbon paste electrode using consecutive cyclic voltammetry in 20 mM monomer aqueous solution in the presence of 6 mM cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) as surfactant. Then transition metal of nickel is incorporated into the p...

A series of copolymers were synthesized by chemically oxidative polymerization of pyrrole (PY) and m-toluidine (MT) in hydrochloride aqueous medium at ambient temperature. The yield, intrinsic viscosity, and solubility of the copolymers were studied by changing PY/MT molar ratio from 0/100 to 88...

Recent investigations performed by dielectric and mechanical spectroscopy have provided detailed information about the dynamical response of m-toluidine in the supercooled and glassy states. In the present work we analyze the properties of the α-relaxation process on the basis of dielectric and...