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  • noun Plural form of epoxide.

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Examples

  • Singapore report they were able to couple CO2 with molecules called "epoxides" to form polycarbonates.

    GreenBiz.com Green Business News 2010

  • In 1980 he carried out successful experiments that led to a practical method for the catalytic asymmetric oxidation of allylic alcohols to chiral epoxides.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public 2001

  • The process uses a proprietary cobalt-based catalyst to bond carbon dioxide recaptured from ethanol manufacturing plants to epoxides derived from oil and natural gas.

    Inc.com 2010

  • The technology, licensed from Harvard University, where chemist Eric Jacobsen developed it, offers an efficient route to various chiral diols and epoxides that are key building blocks for pharmaceuticals.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Novomer's process works by employing a zinc-based catalyst to bond environmental by-products such as CO2 to liquid epoxides (a highly reactive ether) in a reactor that produces the same result as a pressure cooker, albeit with less energy required in terms of temperature and pressure.

    Scientific American 2009

  • The focus then shifts to a systematic presentation of the various substrates classes, namely carboxylic esters, amides and peptides, lactams and lactones, esters of inorganic acids, alkene and arene epoxides, and some miscellaneous hydrolyzable moieties.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • A.Q.H.; De Bont, J.A.M.: Inactivation of alkene oxidation by epoxides in alkene - and alkane-grown bacteria.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows arab2000.forumpro.fr@slideshare.net(arab2000.forum 2009

  • Novomer's process works by employing a zinc-based catalyst to bond environmental by-products such as CO2 to liquid epoxides (a highly reactive ether) in a reactor that produces the same result as a pressure cooker, albeit with less energy required in terms of temperature and pressure.

    Scientific American 2009

  • The three cyclohexene epoxides, (+) - pandoxide (17), (+) - b-senepoxide (18) and (-) - pipoxide (19), isolated from

    Chapter 7 1991

  • Myricetin was a highly potent inhibitor of the mutagenic activity of bay-region diol-epoxides of benzo [a] pyrene, dibenzo [a, h] pyrene and dibenzo [a, i] pyrene, but higher concentrations of myricetin were needed to inhibit the mutagenicity of the chemically less reactive benzo [a] pyrene 4,5-oxide and bay region diol-epoxides of benz [a] anthracene, chrysene and benzo [c] phenanthrene.

    Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010

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