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Chiral polymeric Mn(III) salen complexes were used efficiently for oxidative kinetic resolution of racemic secondary alcohols at room temperature. High chiral purity (ee; >99%) was achieved for the oxidative kinetic resolution of racemic secondary alcohols with 0.6 mol % catalyst loading in 60 min. The catalyst was easily recycled for five successive catalytic experiments. Chirality, 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Rapid development of urban cities and towns in Nigeria calls for proper planning of urban waste management to provide a tolerable environment for the growing population of Nigerian cities.  This paper discusses the characters of solid waste generated in Ado-Ekiti, the capital city of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The area was divided into ten zones based on the number of wards in the city. Households were randomly selected based on the map of the area and demarcation of zones. Questionnaires were designed and administered on the people in the area. Waste was collected from sampled households. The waste was sorted and analyzed. Household sizes sampled ranged from 1 to 11 with an average of about 5 persons per household. Over 50% of the sample population were children with an average of two children per family and a maximum of six. Over 80 percent of the respondents have some form of education ranging from primary to tertiary education. The study revealed that majority (35.5%) households in t...

The synthesis of quinazoline-2,4(1H,3H)-diones from carbon dioxide and 2-aminobenzonitriles using MgO/ZrO2 as a novel and efficient heterogeneous base catalyst is reported. The synthesized MgO/ZrO2 catalyst was characterized by XRD, FTIR and its basic properties were measured using CO2 temperature programed desorption analysis. The effects of various reaction parameters were investigated in detail. A wide variety of aromatic aminobenzonitriles and five member N-heterocyclic carbonitriles were synthesized using this protocol.

Chiral polymeric Mn(III) salen complexes were used efficiently for oxidative kinetic resolution of racemic secondary alcohols at room temperature. High chiral purity (ee; >99%) was achieved for the oxidative kinetic resolution of racemic secondary alcohols with 0.6 mol % catalyst loading in 60 min. The catalyst was easily recycled for five successive catalytic experiments. Chirality, 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Green marketing is the marketing of products that are presumed to be environmentally safe. Thus green marketing incorporates a broad range of activities, including product modification, changes to the production process, packaging changes, as well as modifying advertising. In the modern era of globalization, it has become a challenge to keep our natural environment safe. And this is the biggest need of the time. Environmental pollution is a buzz word in today’s business environment. Consumers are also aware of the environmental issues like, global warming and the impact of environmental pollution. Green marketing is a phenomenon which has developed particular important in the modern market and has emerged as an important concept in India and also in other developing and developed world, and is seen as an important strategy of facilitating sustainable development. In this research paper, main emphasis has been made of concept, need and importance of green marketing. Data has been collected from multiple sources. Many research papers, journals, websites, news papers and books have been consulted to understand the importance of green marketing and sustainability management. The Paper aims at finding out what actually Green Marketing is all about and how can a business firm be more competitive by using green marketing strategies to gain a competitive edge over others. It explores the main issues in adoption of green marketing practices. The paper describes the current Scenario of Indian market and explores the challenges and opportunities businesses have with green marketing. Why companies are adopting it? What is the future of green marketing? And it concludes that green marketing is something that will continuously grow in both practice and demand.

Green marketing is also known as ecological marketing and environmental marketing. Green marketing is the marketing of products that are presumed to be environmentally safe. Thus green marketing incorporates a broad range of activities, including product modification, changes to the production process, packaging changes, as well as modifying advertising. In the modern era of globalization, it has become a challenge to keep our natural environment safe. And this is the biggest need of the time. Environmental pollution is a buzz word in today’s business environment. Consumers are also aware of the environmental issues like, global warming and the impact of environmental pollution. Green marketing is a phenomenon which has developed particular important in the modern market and has emerged as an important concept in India and also in other developing and developed world, and is seen as an important strategy of facilitating sustainable development. In greenwashing a company promotes green-based environmental initiatives or images but actually operates in a way that is damaging to the environment or in an opposite manner to the goal of the announced initiatives. This can also include misleading customers about the environmental benefits of a product through misleading advertising. The general idea behind greenwashing is to create a benefit by appearing to be a green company. Even many energy companies, some of the world's biggest carbons emitters have attempted rebrand themselves as environmentally friendly.  The tools used in greenwashing can include press releases about green projects or task forces put into place, energy reduction or pollution reduction efforts, and rebranding of consumer products and advertising materials. In actuality, the company or group may be operating in damaging ways or may simply be unwilling to make a meaningful commitment to green initiatives.

... Nitroaldol (Henry) Reaction in Ionic Liquids as Greener Reaction Media Noor-ul Hasan Khan • Eko Adi Prasetyanto • Young-Ki Kim • Mohd Bismillah Ansari • Sang-Eon Park Received: 13 July 2010 / Accepted: 20 August 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 ...

Creep, the deformation over time of a material under stress, is one characteristic of composites that has resulted in poor performance in certain applications. This work was undertaken to investigate the advantages of using PP fibres in random poly(propylene-co-ethylene) (PPE) with different fibre concentrations. Addition of long polypropylene fibres into PPE greatly improved the creep resistance and modulus of elasticity

Chiral polymeric Mn(III) salen complexes were used efficiently for oxidative kinetic resolution of racemic secondary alcohols at room temperature. High chiral purity (ee; >99%) was achieved for the oxidative kinetic resolution of racemic secondary alcohols with 0.6 mol % catalyst loading in 60 min. The catalyst was easily recycled for five successive catalytic experiments. Chirality, 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.