1-Methyl-3-phenyl­sulfonyl-2-piperidone

The piperidone ring in the title compound, C12H15NO3S, has a slightly distorted half-chair conformation with the methyl, carbonyl and phenyl­sulfonyl ring substituents occupying equatorial, equatorial and axial positions, respectively. Mol­ecules are connected into centrosymmetric dimers via C—H⋯O inter­actions and these associate into layers via C—H⋯O—S contacts. Further C—H⋯O inter­actions involving both the carbonyl and sulfonyl O atoms consolidate the crystal packing by providing connections between the layers

Carbon nanotubes functionalized by salts containing stereogenic heteroatoms as electrodes in their battery cells

This paper concentrates on electrochemical properties of groups of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) functionalized with substituents containing a stereogenic heteroatom bonded covalently to the surface of the carbon nanotube. This system was tested in Swagelok-type cells. The cells comprised a system (functionalized CNT with salts containing S and P atoms) with a working electrode, microfiber separators soaked with electrolyte solution, and a lithium foil counter/reference (commercial LiCoO2 ) electrode. The electrolyte solution was 1 M LiPF6&nbsp in propylene carbonate. Using standard techniques (cyclic voltammetry/chronopotentiometry), galvanostatic cycling was performed on the cells at room temperature with a CH Instruments Model 600E potentiostat/galvanostat electrochemical measurements. Methods of functionalization CNT were compared in terms of the electrochemical properties of the studied systems. In all systems, the process of charge/discharge was observed