Editorial 

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| Vol. 47 | n. 1 | 2022 | 

 

 

 

 

Editorial 

The Editor of Eclética Química Journal, Editorial Board and Staff proudly announce the first issue of vol. 

47 of 2022 in the hope that we can all live a milder year in terms of pandemic which should allow us to dedicate even 

more intensely to scientific research. Opens the issue a study describing the effect of temperature on the relative 

hydrocarbon concentrations in the biofuel obtained from hydrocracking of Cerbera manghas oil using Ni-Zn/HZSM-

5 as catalyst. The main properties of the catalysts were investigated, and the hydrocracking process was conducted 

in a pressure batch reactor. The predominant products in the biofuel were pentadecane and heptadecane with different 

proportions depending on the reaction temperature. Thus, the gasoil produced from Cerbera manghas oil could be 

an alternative promising transportation fuel. Follows, a theoretical study of the electronic and optical properties of 

PCrV oligomers, since the best compound can be chosen among different ones objecting to increase the efficiency 

of the organic photovoltaic cell. Different R radicals were added to derivatives of 2.7-divynil-carbazole to reduce the 

HOMO-LUMO gap energy and the calculations allowed to suggest the PCrV-BiTTP, PCrV-TTP, PCrV-TTN 

molecules as good candidates for applications in organic solar cells. It is well known that conventional treatments 

are generally not effective for removing micropollutants as antibiotics and other classes of drugs present in 

wastewater. In the next paper, the degradation of the ciprofloxacin antimicrobial in aqueous solution is described 

applying degradation advanced processes such as direct photocatalysis and photoperoxidation using Fe3-xO4-y-TiO2 

particles as catalyst. The readers can find details about catalyst preparation and characterization, and kinetics of the 

micropollutant degradation process with greater degradation percentages. Some nutraceutical compound may exhibit 

many pharmacological properties, but its efficacy is limited due to low solubility, for instance, quercetin. So, a 

possible way to improve the solubility is the cocrystallization screening using different cocrystal formers as described 

in the last article of this issue. Mechanochemical method afforded cocrystals of quercetin with picolinamide and 

isonicotinamide while benzamide and pyrazinoic acid gave physical mixtures with quercetin. 

The Editor and members of Editorial Board of Eclética Química Journal want to pay a tribute to the effort 

developed by Authors and Reviewers during the last year and we hope and trust that in the 2022nd year the mutual 

collaboration will lead to everyone's progress. 

 

Assis Vicente Benedetti 

Editor-in-Chief of EQJ 

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