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War of the worlds : battleground Australia / conceived and edited by Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce Stevens




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Our ancestors / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun ; with an introduction by the author

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Science fiction criticism : an anthology of essential writings / edited by Rob Latham




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The postmodern sacred : popular culture spirituality in the science fiction, fantasy and urban fantasy genres / Emily McAvan

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Lunching with the antichrist : a family history: 1925-2015 / Michael Moorcock

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Science fiction / Barbara Stanners

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[ASAP] Copper(I) Diphosphine Bifluoride Complexes as Efficient Preactivated Catalysts for Nucleophilic Addition on Unsaturated Functional Groups

Organic Process Research & Development
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.9b00443




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[ASAP] Reductive Amination Bicarbonate Quench: Gas-Evolving Waste Stream Near-Miss Investigation

Organic Process Research & Development
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.0c00085




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[ASAP] Safety Case Study. Intrinsic Instability of Concentrated Solutions of Alcoholic Hydrogen Chloride: Potential Hazards Associated with Methanol

Organic Process Research & Development
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.0c00034




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[ASAP] Bromine–Lithium Exchange on a <italic toggle="yes">gem</italic>-Dibromoalkene, Part 2: Comparative Performance of Flow Micromixers

Organic Process Research & Development
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.0c00203




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[ASAP] <sc>d</sc>-Serine as a Key Building Block: Enzymatic Process Development and Smart Applications within the Cascade Enzymatic Concept

Organic Process Research & Development
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.0c00024




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[ASAP] Catalyst-Free Cyclization- and Curtius Rearrangement-Induced Functional Group Transformation: An Improved Synthetic Strategy of First-in-Class ATX Inhibitor Ziritaxestat (GLPG-1690)

Organic Process Research & Development
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.9b00511




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Atomic-scale engineering of metal–oxide interfaces for advanced catalysis using atomic layer deposition

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00304B, Perspective
Lina Cao, Junling Lu
Two main routes to optimization of metal–oxide interfaces: reducing metal particle size and oxide overcoating.
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Synthesis and characterization of a supported Pd complex on carbon nanofibers for the selective decarbonylation of stearic acid to 1-heptadecene: the importance of subnanometric Pd dispersion

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00322K, Paper
Open Access
Elba Ochoa, Wilson Henao, Sara Fuertes, Daniel Torres, Tomas van Haasterecht, Elinor Scott, Harry Bitter, Isabel Suelves, Jose Luis Pinilla
Evaluation of the dispersion of Pd active sites on the catalyst performance during fatty acids decarbonylation to α-olefins was explored in this work. Pd subnanometric particles, clusters and aggregates were found to modulate the catalyst activity.
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Enhancing aqueous pollutants photodegradation via Fermi level matched Z-scheme BiOI/Pt/g-C3N4 photocatalyst: unobstructed photogenerated charge behavior and degradation pathway exploration

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00429D, Paper
Jingjing Jiang, Yueyu Song, Xingyue Wang, Tianren Li, Mingyu Li, Yanhong Lin, Tengfeng Xie, Shuangshi Dong
Z-scheme photocatalytic system was widely requisited to solve water pollution problem. However, the degradation mechanism for pollutants with Z-scheme photocatalyst has been ambiguous. In this work, an efficient all solid-state...
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Recent advances and prospects of inkjet printing in heterogeneous catalysis

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00040J, Minireview
Open Access
Hesam Maleki, Volfango Bertola
This review provides an insight into inkjet printing technology in the context of heterogeneous catalysis.
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Enhancing the methane low-temperature conversion on the Zn/ZSM-5 in the presence of methanol by regulating methanol-to-aromatics reaction pathway

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00449A, Paper
Zhixiang Xi, Bingjie Zhou, Yue Yu, Binbo Jiang, Zhengliang Huang, Zuwei Liao, Jingdai Wang, Yao Yang, Jingyuan Sun, Yongrong Yang
Co-reaction method provides efficient strategy for methane conversion in mild condition, which is of urgent importance of direct valorization of natural gas to liquid hydrocarbons. However, vague mechanism and neglect...
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Seaweed bio-inspired ZnO piezoelectric cilia array applied in microreactors for enhanced photocatalytic performance

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2337-2342
DOI: 10.1039/C9CY02509J, Paper
Yukai Chen, Jiaojiao Fang, Baoying Dai, Huimin Wei, Jiahui Kou, Chunhua Lu
A piezoelectric built-in electric field is believed to be an effective way to separate photoinduced carriers and enhance photocatalytic performance.
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Fine-tuning of the substrate binding mode to enhance the catalytic efficiency of an ortho-haloacetophenone-specific carbonyl reductase

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2462-2472
DOI: 10.1039/C9CY02335F, Paper
Aipeng Li, Xue Li, Wei Pang, Qing Tian, Ting Wang, Lianbing Zhang
Fine-tuning of the substrate binding mode was successfully applied for enhancing the catalytic efficiency of an ortho-haloacetophenone-specific carbonyl reductase.
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Effect of ceria morphology on the performance of MnOx/CeO2 catalysts in catalytic combustion of N,N-dimethylformamide

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2473-2483
DOI: 10.1039/C9CY02384D, Paper
Fengying Huang, Dongsheng Ye, Xiaohan Guo, Wangcheng Zhan, Yun Guo, Li Wang, Yunsong Wang, Yanglong Guo
MnOx/CeO2 catalysts were prepared by a deposition–precipitation method, through loading MnOx into ceria supports with different morphologies (nanorods (NRs), nanocubes (NCs) and nano-octahedrons (NOs)).
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Trace amounts of Cu(OAc)2 boost the efficiency of cumene oxidation catalyzed by carbon nanotubes washed with HCl

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2523-2530
DOI: 10.1039/C9CY02536G, Paper
Jie Deng, Yuhang Li, Yonghai Cao, Hongjuan Wang, Hao Yu, Qiao Zhang, Jiangliang Zuo, Feng Peng
Trace amounts of Cu(OAc)2 significantly improve the activity and selectivity of cumene oxidation catalyzed by HCl-washed carbon nanotubes.
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Alumina grafted SBA-15 sustainable bifunctional catalysts for direct cross-coupling of benzylic alcohols to diarylmethanes

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2583-2592
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00471E, Paper
Chandran Rajendran, Govindaswamy Satishkumar, Charlotte Lang, Eric M. Gaigneaux
AlSBA-15 catalysts possessing Brønsted acid and Lewis acid–base bifunctionalities catalyze the direct arylation of benzyl alcohols to diarylmethanes with an 85% product yield through C–O bond activation.
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Facile sulfolane-modified resins for enhanced dimethoxymethane carbonylation

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2561-2572
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00201A, Paper
Jie Yao, Lei Shi, Wenjie Deng, Jiaqi Fan, Yan Wang, Weizhe Gao, Dongxi Zhang, Wenliang Zhu, Zhongmin Liu
A simple resin modification method for 50 h DMM carbonylation with a high STY of 3.15 mmolMMAc (gcat h)−1 and 100% MMAc selectivity.
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Construction of heterostructure based on hierarchical Bi2MoO6 and g-C3N4 with ease for impressive performance in photoelectrocatalytic water splitting and supercapacitor

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2427-2442
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00211A, Paper
C. Murugan, M. Karnan, M. Sathish, A. Pandikumar
This work demonstrates the formation of g-C3N4/Bi2MoO6 heterostructure for water splitting and supercapacitor; which shows highest PEC efficiency and symmetric device delivered a energy density and power density of 47 W h kg−1 and 4.5 kW kg−1.
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Enhanced and selective photocatalytic reduction of CO2 by H2O over strategically doped Fe and Cr into porous boron carbon nitride

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2663-2680
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00343C, Paper
Niwesh Ojha, Abhinav Bajpai, Sushant Kumar
Strategic doping of metals and non-metals into a photocatalyst can help in tuning the band gap and alignment of band structure.
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Loop engineering of aryl sulfotransferase B for improving catalytic performance in regioselective sulfation

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2369-2377
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00063A, Paper
Yu Ji, Shohana Islam, Haiyang Cui, Gaurao V. Dhoke, Mehdi D. Davari, Alan M. Mertens, Ulrich Schwaneberg
Loop engineering of aryl sulfotransferase B improves catalytic performance in regioselective sulfation.
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Adjustable anchoring of Ni/Co cations by oxygen-containing functional groups on functionalized graphite paper and accelerated mass/electron transfer for overall water splitting

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2627-2643
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00181C, Paper
Yiyi Huang, Lei Sun, Zebin Yu, Ronghua Jiang, Jun Huang, Yanping Hou, Fei Yang, Boge Zhang, Runzhi Zhang, Yalan Zhang
NCS–NCO/FGP0.44 with a cellular network of porous nanosheets and close-contact heterointerface reveals accelerated interfacial mass/electron transportation for overall water splitting.
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Enhanced oxygen evolution catalysis by aluminium-doped cobalt phosphide through in situ surface area increase

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2398-2406
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00123F, Paper
Timothy E. Rosser, Juliana P. S. Sousa, Yasmine Ziouani, Oleksandr Bondarchuk, Dmitri Y. Petrovykh, Xian-Kui Wei, Jo J. L. Humphrey, Marc Heggen, Yury V. Kolen'ko, Andrew J. Wain
Al-doping of cobalt phosphide oxygen evolution catalysts results in enhanced performance which, based on in situ and operando analysis, is shown to result from a surface area increase associated with modified oxidation behaviour.
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Enhancing hydrogen evolution reaction through modulating electronic structure of self-supported NiFe LDH

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00315H, Paper
Xiao-Peng Li, Wen-Kai Han, Kang Xiao, Ting Ouyang, Nan Li, Feng Peng, Zhao-Qing Liu
NiFe-layered double hydroxide (NiFe LDH), as an efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst, has emerged as a promising electrocatalyst for catalyzing overall water splitting in alkaline electrolyte.
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Outstanding Reviewers for Catalysis Science & Technology in 2019

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2328-2328
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY90032J, Editorial

We would like to take this opportunity to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Catalysis Science & Technology in 2019, as selected by the editorial team for their significant contribution to the journal.
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Origin of CO2 as the main carbon source in syngas-to-methanol process over Cu: theoretical evidence from a combined DFT and microkinetic modeling study

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00602E, Paper
Dongyang Xu, Panpan Wu, Bo Yang
A theoretical study combining DFT and microkinetic modeling provides evidence that CO2 is the main carbon source in methanol synthesis from syngas (CO, CO2 and H2) over Cu.
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MOFs based on 1D structural sub-domains with Brønsted acid and redox active sites as effective bi-functional catalysts

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00235F, Paper
José María Moreno, Alexandra Velty, Urbano Díaz
Low-dimensional MOF-type catalysts containing Brønsted acid and redox active sites, based on assembled 1D organic–inorganic nanoribbons, for one-pot two-step reactions.
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Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over nickel cobalt bimetallic phosphate anchored graphitic carbon nitrides by regulation of d-band electronic structure

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00556H, Paper
Yuanzheng Zhang, Yunrong Dai, Lifeng Yin, Huihui Li, Xiang Chen, Bin Chen
Non-precious metal co-catalysts with high activity and stability are extremely desirable for economically viable photocatalytic molecular hydrogen (H2) evolution. Herein, nickel cobalt phosphate (NiCo-Pi) was introduced into graphitic carbon nitride...
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Two-way desorption coupling to enhance the conversion of syngas into aromatics by MnO/H-ZSM-5

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00275E, Paper
Syed Zulfiqar Ali Gilani, Le Lu, Muhammad Tahir Arslan, Babar Ali, Qi Wang, Fei Wei
We herein report a composite catalyst containing partially reducible and highly active manganese oxide and nano-size H-ZSM-5 with short b-axis, prepared for the direct conversion of syngas into aromatics.
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Facile synthesis of oxygen-deficient nano-TiO2 coordinated by acetate ligands for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic performance

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00592D, Paper
Shaohua Pang, Yunfei Lu, Lin Cheng, Juming Liu, Huiyan Ma, Jucai Yang, Qiancheng Zhang
To date, various methods have been adopted to enhance the visible-light photocatalytic activity of nano-TiO2. However, a more facile and moderate method is still highly desirable. In this work, a...
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Importance of the decoration in shaped cobalt nanoparticles in the acceptor-less secondary alcohol dehydrogenation

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00390E, Paper
Kamila Kaźmierczak, Raj Kumar Ramamoorthy, Arthur Moisset, Guillaume Viau, Arnaud Viola, Marion Giraud, Jennifer Peron, Lorette Sicard, Jean-Yves Piquemal, Michèle Besson, Noémie Perret, Carine Michel
Ligands matter for shaped decorated Co nanoparticles, at the frontier between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.
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Semi-rational hinge engineering: modulating the conformational transformation of glutamate dehydrogenase for enhanced reductive amination activity towards non-natural substrates

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9CY02576F, Paper
Xinjian Yin, Yayun Liu, Lijun Meng, Haisheng Zhou, Jianping Wu, Lirong Yang
The hinge region was identified to be a promising hotspot for activity engineering of GluDHs, providing a potent alternative for developing high-performance biocatalysts toward valuable optically pure L-amino acid production.
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Effective N-methylation of nitroarenes with methanol catalyzed by a functionalized NHC-based iridium catalyst: a green approach to N-methyl amines

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00707B, Paper
Miguel González-Lainez, M. Victoria Jiménez, Vincenzo Passarelli, Jesús J. Pérez-Torrente
Compound [IrBr(CO)2(κC-tBuImCH2PyCH2OMe)] featuring a flexible pyridine/OMe functionalized NHC ligand κ1C coordinated efficiently catalyzes the selective N-monomethylation of nitroarenes using methanol as both the reducing agent and the C1 source. A...
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CO activation and methanation mechanism on hexagonal close-packed Co catalysts: effect of functionals, carbon deposition and surface structure

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00499E, Paper
Hai-Yan Su, Changlin Yu, Jin-Xun Liu, Yonghui Zhao, Xiufang Ma, Jie Luo, Chenghua Sun, Wei-Xue Li, Keju Sun
Regardless of the functionals used and the presence of graphitic carbon, the CO methanation rate on Co(0001) is mainly controlled by CHO decomposition.
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Bifunctional rhenium-copper nanostructures for intensified and stable ethanol synthesis via hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00579G, Communication
Zhongnan Du, Meng Chen, Xuepeng Wang, Xingkun Chen, Xiaolin Mou, Yuan Tan, Wenshao Yang, Chuanqi Huang, Hejun Zhu, Ronghe Lin, Yunjie Ding
Decorating small copper nanoparticles with isolated and/or clusted oxophilic rhenium species enables the first low-copper catalytic technology for intensified and stable ethanol production under mild conditions in dimethyl oxalate hydrogenation....
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Ligand photodissociation in Ru(II)–1,4,7-triazacyclononane complexes enhances water oxidation and enables electrochemical generation of surface active species

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9CY02575H, Paper
Hussein A. Younus, Nazir Ahmad, Ibrahim Yildiz, Serge Zhuiykov, Shiguo Zhang, Francis Verpoort
Ligand transformations involved in metal complexes during water oxidation (WO), such as ligand decomposition, partial oxidation, or complete dissociation have been reported, however, ligand photodissociation has not been reported yet.
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Influence of gold on the reactivity behaviour of ceria nanorods in CO oxidation: Combining operando spectroscopies and DFT calculations

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00392A, Paper
Marc Ziemba, Christian Hess
Au/CeO2 catalysts are commonly used for low-temperature CO oxidation. While many studies focus on the properties of gold and their relevance for the activity, the influence of the support properties...
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Interfacial Effect of Co4S3-Co9S8 Nanoparticles Hosted onto rGO Sheets Derived from Molecular Precursor Pyrolysis on Enhancing Electrochemical Behaviour†

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00564A, Paper
Mengmeng He, Linchao Zhu, Yanyan Liu, Hao Wen, Yunxia Hu, Baojun Li
The reasonable design and synthesis of Co-based compound with superior electrochemical activity and durability have aroused tremendous research interests. Herein, a simple molecular precursor pyrolysis strategy is proposed to fabricate...
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Reliance General Insurance scraps IPO plan; withdraws draft offer documents

Markets regulator Sebi had received draft red herring prospectus for the proposed IPO on February 8




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Shapoorji Pallonji group subsidiary announces plan to list Eureka Forbes

Forbes & Company, a Shapoorji Pallonji group firm on Tuesday announced plans to list its subsidiary Eureka Forbes to unlock value for shareholders. The company's board has authorised the management to evaluate any such scheme in this regard, Forbes & Company said in a regulatory filing. "The Board of Directors of the company has authorised the management...to evaluate a scheme of arrangement and/or other appropriate mechanisms to enable an eventual listing of Eureka Forbes with an intention to unlock value in the hands of all the shareholders of the company," it said. These may also include listing, dilution/sale or combination thereof of Eureka Forbes, it added. Eureka Forbes is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Forbes & Company. "The Board will consider the above (schemes) when the relevant proposals are placed before it in the near future, but in principle has approved supporting the endeavours of the management in this regard," it said. It operates in water purifier, air ...




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Aramco IPO: Institutional tranche gains $17 bn in orders, says Al Arabiya

The retail portion of the planned deal had received 10 billion riyals, it also said.




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CSB Bank IPO subscribed 79.72 times; raises Rs 184 cr from anchor investors

The company, which aims to raise up to Rs 410 crore, has fixed a price of Rs 193-195 per share for the IPO.




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Ujjivan Small Finance Bank eyes Rs 750 cr via IPO; issue to open on Dec 2

The lender commenced operations in February 2017 and the bank will also have to bring the promoters' holding to 40 percent by 2022




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Prince Pipes IPO price band at Rs 177-178 per share; to raise Rs 500 crore

It has set a price band of Rs 177-178 per equity share for the IPO




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Equitas Small Finance Bank files draft papers for IPO, to raise Rs 550 cr

The equity shares of the company will be listed on the BSE and the NSE.