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Visible light contributions transform CO2 into higher hydrocarbons during Fischer Tropsch synthesis over K-Fe catalysts

Current C2+ hydrocarbon production from fossil fuel feedstocks will in-time be replaced by alternate synthesis methods involving cleaner energy strategies. One approach is to incorporate direct sunlight during catalytic C2+ synthesis via the modified Fishe ...

2025

Exploring the reactivity of N-heterocyclic diazoolefins

Bastiaan Kooij

Diazo compounds of the type R1R2CN2 are widely used in organometallic catalysis and synthetic chemistry. Stable diazoolefins, R1R2C=CN2, have only been isolated recently. Diazoolefins undergo cycloaddition reactions and tend to be carbon donors when used a ...

EPFL2025

Surface segregation in high-entropy alloys from alchemical machine learning

Michele Ceriotti, Sandip De, Guillaume André Jean Fraux, Arslan Mazitov, Nataliya Lopanitsyna

High-entropy alloys (HEAs), containing several metallic elements in near-equimolar proportions, have long been of interest for their unique mechanical properties. More recently, they have emerged as a promising platform for the development of novel heterog ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Correlating the Nature of Carbenium Ions in Zeolites to the Product Distribution in the Methanol-to-Olefins Process

Oliver Kröcher

The methanol-to-olefins (MTO) process on zeolite-based catalysts enables the production of olefins from green methanol. Selectivity control requires an understanding of the nature and evolution of hydrocarbon species that act as catalytically active center ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2024

The simultaneous Selective Catalytic Reduction of N2O and NO over Fe-exchanged zeolites

Filippo Buttignol

Iron-exchanged zeolites are industrial heterogeneous catalysts deployed to remediate anthropogenic emissions of both nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2). Despite the extensive scientific attention received, limited knowledge is availab ...

EPFL2024

Selective electroreduction of CO2 to C2+ products on cobalt decorated copper catalysts

Sanaz Soodi, Andreas Züttel, Kun Zhao, Jie Zhang

Cu-catalyzed electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) to multi-carbon (C2+) products is often plagued by low selectivity because the adsorption energies of different reaction intermediates are in a linear scaling relationship. Development of Cu-based ...

2024

A genetic optimization strategy with generality in asymmetric organocatalysis as a primary target

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Rubén Laplaza Solanas, Simone Gallarati, Puck Elisabeth van Gerwen, Lucien Michel Gérard Brey

A catalyst possessing a broad substrate scope, in terms of both turnover and enantioselectivity, is sometimes called "general". Despite their great utility in asymmetric synthesis, truly general catalysts are difficult or expensive to discover via traditio ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Understanding the role of surface oxygen-containing functional groups on carbon-supported cobalt catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Manhui Wei, Andreas Züttel, Kangning Zhao, Liping Zhong, Thi Ha My Pham, Youngdon Ko

Supported Co-based catalysts exhibit promising catalytic activities in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during alkaline water electrolysis. Surface functionalization of the support modulates the dispersion of the catalysts and their interaction with the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Copper-Catalyzed Benzylic Functionalization of Lignin-Derived Monomers

Arthur Blumenstein, Xile Hu, Uttam Dhawa, Lara Lavrencic

Within the field of lignin biorefining, significant research effort has been dedicated to the advancement of catalytic methods for lignocellulose depolymerization. However, another key challenge in lignin valorization is the conversion of the obtained mono ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Enhancement of electrocatalytic oxygen evolution by chiral molecular functionalization of hybrid 2D electrodes

Xile Hu, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Seunghwa Lee, Yunchang Liang, Karla Banjac

While solar-to-fuel catalysis requires the careful transfer of electrons, there are still challenges understanding how electron spin contributes to reactivity. Here, authors employ chiral fused thiadiazole-helicenes to control spin polarization in oxygen e ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Hyper-Cross-Linked Polystyrene as a Stabilizing Medium for Small Metal Clusters

Lioubov Kiwi

Among different polymers nanostructured cross-linked aromatics have the greatest potential as catalytic supports due to their exceptional thermal and chemical stability and preservation of the active phase morphology. This work studies the ability of hyper ...

2021

Chiral Cyclopentadienyl Ligands: Design, Syntheses, and Applications in Asymmetric Catalysis

Ana Garcia Herraiz, Nicolai Cramer, Benoît Daniel Bertrand Audic, Josep Más-Roselló, Aragorn Nathan Laverny

The creation of new chiral ligands capable of providing high stereocontrol in metal-catalyzed reactions is crucial in modern organic synthesis. The production of bioactive molecules as single enantiomers is increasingly required, and asymmetric catalysis w ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Ligand Engineering in Nickel Phthalocyanine to Boost the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2

Jun Li

Designing and synthesizing efficient molecular catalysts may unlock the great challenge of controlling the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) with molecular precision. Nickel phthalocyanine (NiPc) appears as a promising candidate for this task due to its adjus ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Assessing Tetrel-Based Neutral Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Catalytic Hydrogenation

Shubhajit Das

Frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry has gained significant attention in the past decade as the main group hydrogenation catalysts. The majority of the reported FLP catalysts utilize either boron-containing Lewis acids (LAs) or alternatively isolobal and ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Elucidating the Facet-Dependent Selectivity for CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol of Cu-Ag Tandem Catalysts

Raffaella Buonsanti, Pranit Srinivas Iyengar

Despite being desirable high-value products of the electro-chemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR), alcohols are still obtained with lower selectivity compared to hydrocarbons and the reaction pathways leading to their formation are still under debate. In ...

2021

Diamine Synthesis via the Nitrogen-Directed Azidation of sigma- and pi-C-C Bonds

Jérôme Waser, Mingming Wang

Diamines are essential building blocks for the synthesis of agrochemicals, drugs, and organic materials, yet their synthesis remains challenging, as both nitrogens need to be differentiated and diverse substitution patterns (1,2, 1,3, or 1,4) are required. ...

2021