The Delhi city area government, India, has issued a notice to 241 schools for failing fire safety regulations. The action follows a Right to Information query from the Delhi Parents Association which showed that over 30% of Delhi’s 7 000 plus schools did not have...
National fire service leaders and other stakeholders are supporting a “Vision 20/20” project call to ask Amazon and other e-commerce companies to stop selling unlisted smoke and carbon dioxide alarms. Some 25 models are cited which have not been tested by recognised...
Poly- and cyclo- phosphazenes are recognised effective PIN flame retardants, but to date are not available as water soluble and permanent systems for textiles. Here a new cyclophosphazene was synthesised in a one-step process: hexa (allylamine) cyclotriphosphazene...
Four comparable phosphorus-containing compounds were synthesised, each with one central P atom and three hexenyl groups: an amide (P bonded to 3xN), a diamidate (P bonded to 2xN, 1xO), an amidate (P bonded to 1xN, 2xO) and a phosphate (P bonded to 3xO). These were...
A polymer (poly((3,3’-diphenyl diacetylethylenediamino)-1,1’-ferrocene) = PDPFDE) was synthesised linking ferrocene, aromatic carbon rings and the nitrogen compound ethylenediamine. It is know that the iron-containing organic compound, ferrocene (cyclopentaienyl ring)...
