Graphical Abstract: The paper is an overview of Daniel Nocera’s work towards obtaining energy from the splitting of water. The review describes the challenge of storing high energy bonds and presents some of the important advances the researcher managed to accomplish.
Graphical Abstract: Room temperature ionic liquids (ILs) have been recognized as a new generation of solvents for “green chemistry” and represent remarkably promising classes of technologically useful and fundamentally interesting materials [1-6]. Most of them are
quaternary imidazolium cations with inorganic counterions. Cation in these salts is appended to the organic group (usually saturated hydrocarbon fragments). However, some problems regarding the functionalization [2,7], coordination properties [4] of ILs still remain to be solved. It seems to us that functionalization of imidazoles by ethylcarbonitrile, allyl, 2,3-epoxypropyl fragments will lead to new properties of synthesized ILs. There are no literature data on use of 2-(1H-1-imidazolyl)ethylcarbonitrile 4 for synthesis of imidazolium salts with ILs properties.
Graphical Abstract: Literature data on utilization of acetyl group of aryl-1-ethanones (acetophenones) for the synthesis of organic compounds is generalized. Different approaches of preparation of aromatic compounds by chemical transformations of methyl as well as keto- group of titled compounds are systematized. Examples of the synthesis of organic compounds based on products of primary transformations of aryl-1-ethanones are considered.