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Due to the high ring strain and unique bonding, cyclopropenes represent important 3-carbon synthons in organic synthesis. Intrigued by the unique reactivity of cyclopropenes, we were interested in further exploration of their chemical properties. Trying to ...

EPFL2025

Nitrogen Fixation and Hydrogen Evolution by Sterically Encumbered Mo-Nitrogenase

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The substrate-reducing proteins of all nitrogenases (MoFe, VFe, and FeFe) are organized as alpha 2ss2(gamma 2) multimers with two functional halves. While their dimeric organization could afford improved structural stability of nitrogenases in vivo, previo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Tuning the reactivity of uranium towards small molecules in multimetallic complexes

Nadir Jori

One of the main goals of organometallic chemistry in the last decades was the activation of small molecule in mild reaction conditions. Even though multiple examples of catalytic cycles able to produce fine chemicals from cheap and abundant sources using t ...

EPFL2023

Investigation of Carboxylic Acid Isosteres and Prodrugs for Inhibition of the Human SIRT5 Lysine Deacylase Enzyme

Alexander Lund Nielsen

Sirtuin 5 (SIRT5) is a protein lysine deacylase enzyme that regulates diverse biology by hydrolyzing epsilon-N-carboxyacyllysine posttranslational modifications in the cell. Inhibition of SIRT5 has been linked to potential treatment of several cancers but ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Operando diffuse reflectance infrared detection of cyanide intermediate species during the reaction of formaldehyde with ammonia over V2O(5)/ WO3-TiO2

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Rob Jeremiah G. Nuguid

Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is a highly poisonous gas that can form through the reaction between formaldehyde and ammonia (NH3) in the exhaust. While this detrimental side reaction has been the subject of recent catalytic studies under selective catalytic reduc ...

ELSEVIER2021

Acidity and the multiphase chemistry of atmospheric aqueous particles and clouds

Athanasios Nenes

The acidity of aqueous atmospheric solutions is a key parameter driving both the partitioning of semi-volatile acidic and basic trace gases and their aqueous-phase chemistry. In addition, the acidity of atmospheric aqueous phases, e.g., deliquesced aerosol ...

Copernicus GmbH2021

Novel cationic 1,2,4-selenadiazoles: synthesis via addition of 2-pyridylselenyl halides to unactivated nitriles, structures and four-center SeMIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSISN contacts

Euro Solari, Alexander Tskhovrebov

2-Pyridylselenyl halides undergo facile coupling with a triple CN bond of unactivated nitriles. Unprecedented heterocyclization allowed the preparation of a novel class of cationic 1,2,4-selenadiazoles in remarkably high yields. Cationic 1,2,4-selenadiazol ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Recent progress in syngas production via catalytic CO2 hydrogenation reaction

Oliver Kröcher, Alimohammad Bahmanpour

Synthesis gas production through the catalytic reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) reaction is an attractive option for the conversion of CO2 to fuels. Many metal-based catalysts have been introduced for this reaction in order to provide high activity, CO selec ...

ELSEVIER2021

Incorporation of Clathrochelate-Based Metalloligands in Metal-Organic Frameworks by Solvent-Assisted Ligand Exchange

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Ophélie Marie Planes, José Luis Bila

Iron(II) cage complexes with terminal 4-pyridyl groups can be incorporated in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) via solvent-assisted ligand exchange (SALE). Paddle -wheeled MOFs with N,N'-di-4-pyridylnaphthalenete-tracarboxydiimide pillars were used as start ...

2020

Where Electrophile Signaling and Covalent Ligand-Target Mining Converge

Yimon Aye

Interests in learning how to engineer most effective covalent ligands, identify novel functional targets, and define precise mechanism-of-action are rapidly growing in both academia and pharmaceutical industries. We here illuminate the establishment of a m ...

2020

Modulated Excitation Raman Spectroscopy of V2O5/TiO2: Mechanistic Insights into the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO with NH3

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Rob Jeremiah G. Nuguid, Adrian Marberger

We report the increased level of mechanistic information that Raman spectroscopy can provide when combined with modulated excitation experimentation. A V2O5/TiO2 catalyst for the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NO, was subjected to periodic NH3 puls ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Nickamine and Analogous Nickel Pincer Catalysts for Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Halides and Hydrosilylation of Alkenes

Xile Hu, Zhikun Zhang, Renyi Shi

CONSPECTUS: Ligand development plays an essential role in the advance of homogeneous catalysis. Tridentate, meridionally coordinating ligands, commonly termed pincer ligands, have been established as a privileged class of ligands in catalysis because they ...

American Chemical Society2019

A Factor Two Improvement in High-Field Dynamic Nuclear Polarization from Gd(III) Complexes by Design

David Lyndon Emsley, Marinella Mazzanti, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Gabriele Stevanato

Gadolinium(III) complexes have recently been demonstrated to have potential as polarizing agents for high-field dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) NMR spectroscopy. By tailoring the ligand design to reduce the zero-field splitting (ZFS), we demonstrate a q ...

2019