Researchers at the ‘Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the ‘Technion‘ (Haifa, Israel) have developed a new chemical process to produce raw materials for the manufacture of polymers, pharmaceuticals, and agricultural compounds.
This new chemical process is named ‘Triazenolysis’. Technion explains in its substantial press release: “Triazenolysis, the new process converts alkenes – common organic compounds such as petroleum – into multifunctional amines useful in various research and industrial applications.“
Triazenolysis was developed by: Alexander Koronatov and Deepak Ranolia, and postdoctoral researcher Pavel Sakharov, under the guidance of Prof. Mark Gandelman. Graphic (c) Triazenolysis: making amines by breaking olefins. Image source: Tatyana Savin
And explains further: “The Technion-developed process mimics ozonolysis, a long-established technology used to create molecules with carbon-oxygen bonds. Ozonolysis, developed more than a century ago, is effective at forming carbon-oxygen bonds but does not produce carbon-nitrogen bonds.
This is where triazenolysis comes into play, producing carbon-nitrogen bonds relevant to a wide range of applications by cleaving carbon-carbon bonds in olefins (a class of chemicals made up of hydrogen and carbon with one or more pairs of carbon atoms linked by a double bond).”
Based on the press release from Technion. Selected as relevant/regrouped?/lectured by VonNaftali. Pic by AI. Symbolic.