scholarly journals Simple pyrolysis of polystyrene into valuable chemicals

e-Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 428-432
Author(s):  
Chao Lu ◽  
Hang Xiao ◽  
Xi Chen

Abstract Overuse of polymer products has led to severe environmental problems, which are threatening survival of creatures on earth. It is urgent to tackle enormous polymer wastes with proper cycling methods. Pyrolysis of polymers into high-value chemicals and fuels is displaying great potential to address the white pollution issue. In this study, we focus on chemical recycling of polystyrene, an important polymer in our everyday life, into valuable chemicals through simple pyrolysis strategy under nitrogen protection. It is found that yield of liquid product from polystyrene pyrolysis achieves as high as 76.24%, and there exists single component in the liquid product, which has been identified as styrene through hydrogen nuclear magnetic resonance spectra. Moreover, we propose monomer dissociation mechanism to explain the pyrolysis process of polystyrene based on the structure of polystyrene and experimental results.

High-resolution spectra have been obtained from the hydrogen nuclei of appropriate isotopic mixtures of ethane, ethylene and acetylene containing one or two magnetic 13 C nuclei. Analysis of these spectra has yielded the magnitudes of all but one of the possible inter - nuclear coupling constants in these molecules, including those between pairs of carbon nuclei. Where a given molecule has several coupling constants between pairs of the same type of nuclei the relative signs of these have also been determined. Discussion of the experimental results in terms of current theoretical treatments shows that in nearly all cases the contact, H 3 , term is the most important one in determining the magnitude of the coupling constants. Only in the case of the J CC and the long-range J ' CH coupling constants of acetylene does it appear to be necessary to consider appreciable contributions from other terms.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 1934578X2199226
Author(s):  
Zhi-You Hao ◽  
Gang Ni ◽  
Dong Liang ◽  
Yan-Fei Liu ◽  
Chun-Lei Zhang ◽  
...  

A new brominated norsesquiterpene glycoside, acoruside (1), has been isolated from the rhizomes of Acorus tatarinowii Schott, together with 8 known compounds (2-9). Their structures were elucidated mainly based on 1-dimensional (1D) and 2D nuclear magnetic resonance spectra. The absolute configuration of compound 1 was determined by comparing its experimental and calculated electronic circular dichroism spectra. The in vitro tests indicated that at 10 µM, compounds 2, 3, and 4 aggravated serum deprivation injuries of PC12 cells, compound 2 aggravated rotenone-induced injuries of PC12 cells, and compounds 3 and 4 aggravated the oxygen-glucose deprivation-induced injuries of PC12 cells.


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