Jun-ichi Kadokawa

TL;DR: In this paper, Dinaphthylether was converted to naphthol by a reaction in 3 ml of water including basic additives at 703 K. In the reaction in supercritical water, no production of naphthalene was confirmed suggesting chemical participation of water.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors described the preparation of inclusion complexes composed of amylose and strongly hydrophobic polyesters in a parallel enzymatic polymerization system, which was achieved by carrying out phosphorylase-catalyzed enzyme-based polymerization of α-d-glucose 1-phosphate from maltoheptaose, giving rise to amyloses as a host, and lipase-based enzyme-assisted polymerisation of dicarboxylic acids and diols, leading to the guest polyesters, simultaneously.

TL;DR: Sugar dihydroozaxole monomers with two free hydroxyl groups undergo acid-catalyzed polymerization to hyperbranched aminopolysaccharides and the degree of branching determined by 1 H NMR spectroscopy after reaction with [iPr2 Si(Cl)]2 O is close to the ideal value.

TL;DR: A review of recent developments in the fabrication of nano-and microstructured chitin materials can be found in this article, focusing on approaches through gelation with suitable dispersion media.

TL;DR: In this article, non-catalytic disproportionation of diarylmethanol derivatives was found to proceed efficiently in supercritical water, and this method was also applied to various diary lmethylamine derivatives to give the disproportionation products in good yields.