Membrane separation is a well-known and widely used method in water treatment. It finds applications in mining and metallurgical processes and offers many potential benefits to the mining industry, such as significant water ...
This project focusses on the synthesis of novel 6,8-disubstituted-chromone-3-carboxamides
and their evaluation as potential anti-tuberculosis agents.
In this study, four 3-iodo-5-substituted-2-hydroxyacetophenones (58A-D) ...
Malaria is a mosquito vector-borne disease caused by a female anopheles mosquito belonging to a plasmodium genus, affecting more than 500 million people per annum. There are five plasmodium genus responsible for causing ...
Breonadia salicina (Vahl) Hepper and J.R.I. Wood is a tree used widely to treat numerous infectious diseases in South Africa and other African countries, and ethnopharmacological studies have shown a number of biological ...
Corrosion is a natural phenomenon considered a chemical and an electrochemical process of
metals interacting with the surrounding corrosive environment. Inhibition is a preventive measure
used by corrosion engineers to ...
In this study, the recent micro-extraction and pre-concentration techniques, namely vortex-assisted liquid-liquid micro-extraction (VA-LLME), dispersive liquid-liquid micro-extraction (DLLME) and membrane assisted solvent ...
Glitazones are derivatives of thiazolidine with two carbonyls at 2- and 4-positions. Replacing the thio group with amino group gives rise to hydantoins while replacing carbonyl group at positions 2 with the thio group ...
Host-guest chemistry, also known as inclusion chemistry, is an important subfield of supramolecular chemistry where there is great current interest owing to its great promise in the areas of separation of small molecules, ...
Na2Fe2(MoO4)3 is a good cathode material for sodium storage due to its low cost, non-toxicity of iron and three open dimensional crystal framework. Na2Fe2(MoO4)3 was synthesised using the one pot sol-gel method. Na2Fe2(MoO4)3 ...
The Solanum genus is among the most diverse and valuable in terms of agricultural utility and vegetable crops. This study was directed at the characterization of toxic metabolites contained in Solanum retroflexum and Solanum ...
1,2,4-Triazine and its derivatives have proven their importance in the biological world since they are used in the treatment of diseases like cancer and HIV/AIDS. Thus this project was aimed at synthesizing novel ...
This research study reports the inhibition of mild steel (MS), zinc (Zn) in 1.0 M HCl and 1.0 M H2SO4, and the inhibition of aluminium (Al) in 0.5 M HCl by three selected quinoxaline derivatives namely, quinoxalone-6-carboxylic ...
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been identified as promising physisorption candidates because of their unique structures. MOFs are a class of crystalline materials consisting of coordinate bonds between metal ions and ...
In this study, modern clean-up and pre-concentration techniques, namely hollow fibre liquid phase micro-extraction (HFLPME) and miniaturized pipette-tip extraction based on molecularly imprinted polymers (m-MIP-PTE), were ...
Antibiotics and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are groups of anthropogenic substances that are found in industries and consumer products, i.e., antibiotics are used in healthcare facilities, pharmaceutical companies, and ...
South Africa consumes more than 100 million tons of low-grade coal annually to produce electricity. This process results in generation of vast amounts of waste ash in coal fly ash (CFA) which is voluminous and is a source ...
Extraction and purification of target compound or analytes from the matrices is always a goal to achieve in different industries and fields of study. Therefore, there is always a need to purify the desired product to get ...
Chromones are a group of naturally occurring heterocyclic compounds, with oxygen as a heteroatom. However, chromone-2-carboxylates are scarce in nature. These compounds are significant in organic chemistry and medicinal ...
The contamination of the environment with wastewaters emanating from different operations and industrial activities has been an issue of prime concern to national and international research communities. Grossly, acid mine ...
Li3VO4 has been considered a promising negative electrode material because of its high theoretical capacity (394 mAh g−1) and zero strain during the charge and discharge processes. However, the electronic conductivity of ...