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Carlos A. M. Afonso

Researcher at University of Lisbon

Publications -  434
Citations -  15782

Carlos A. M. Afonso is an academic researcher from University of Lisbon. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ionic liquid & Catalysis. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 413 publications receiving 13891 citations. Previous affiliations of Carlos A. M. Afonso include University of Porto & Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

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Enhanced esterification conversion in a room temperature ionic liquid by integrated water removal with pervaporation

TL;DR: In this paper, a catalyzed esterification reaction in the ionic liquid is studied, where one of the reaction products (water) is removed by pervaporation. But the results show that water removal from the reaction medium allowed shifting the reaction towards formation of the desired product.
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Ionic liquids as a convenient new medium for the catalytic asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins using a recoverable and reusable osmium/ligand.

TL;DR: The use of room-temperature ionic liquids in the Sharpless catalytic asymmetric dihydroxylation (AD) as a cosolvent or replacement of the tert-butanol was studied in detail by screening 11 different RTILs, providing a recoverable, reusable, robust, efficient, and simple system for the AD reaction.
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Catalytic olefin epoxidation with cyclopentadienyl–molybdenum complexes in room temperature ionic liquids

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of complexes of the type (η 5 -C 5 R 5 )Mo(CO) 3 X (X = Me, Cl; R = H, Me), being efficient homogeneous catalysts for the epoxidation of olefins, have been examined for their catalytic performance at 55°C in systems containing room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs).
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Glass transition relaxation and fragility in two room temperature ionic liquids

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the features of the glass transition relaxation of two room temperature ionic liquids using DSC and concluded that these kind of materials belong to the class of relatively strong glass-forming systems.