Publications related to Towards the Isomer-Specific Synthesis of Higher Fullerenes and Buckybowls by the Surface-Catalyzed Cyclodehydrogenation of Aromatic Precursors

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Synthesis and Activation of Heteroatom-Substituted Four-Membered Carbocycles

Strained ring systems such as cyclobutanes offer unique opportunities for synthetic innovation. Its significant ring strain, caused by compressed bond angles, presents synthetic challenges; however, this same strain renders the ring a valuable handle for a ...

EPFL2025

In Situ and Time-Resolved Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Processes

Chengcheng Yan

Observing the fast dynamics of nanoscale systems is crucial in order to understand and ultimately control their behavior. Characterizing these dynamic processes requires techniques with atomic spatial resolution and a temporal resolution that matches the t ...

EPFL2023

Grafting of Alkali Metals on Fumed Silica for the Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Methanol to Formaldehyde

Oliver Kröcher, Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Christophe Jean Baranowski

Water free, non-oxidative catalytic dehydrogenation of methanol to formaldehyde is an important process for the formation of anhydrous, molecular formaldehyde (FA). Sodium or sodium-containing salts were shown to catalyze the reaction, but their reaction m ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2021

Methoxycyclization of 1,5-Enynes by Coinage Metal Catalysts: Is Gold Always Superior?

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Matthew Wodrich

Au(I) catalysts promote the intramolecular cycloisomerization of 1,n-enynes, as well as facilitate reactions with alcohols, characteristics that have led to their wide-spread in the synthesis of complex natural products. Literature reports of Cu and Ag spe ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Insights into the Photocatalytic Bacterial Inactivation by Flower-Like Bi2WO6 under Solar or Visible Light, Through in Situ Monitoring and Determination of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Stefanos Giannakis

This study addresses the visible light-induced bacterial inactivation kinetics over a Bi2WO6 synthesized catalyst. The systematic investigation was undertaken with Bi2WO6 prepared by the complexation of Bi with acetic acid (carboxylate) leading to a flower ...

2020

Dirac nodal lines and flat-band surface state in the functional oxide RuO2

Helmuth Berger, Arnaud Magrez, Simon Karl Moser, Philippe Bugnon

The efficiency and stability of RuO2 in electrocatalysis has made this material a subject of intense fundamental and industrial interest. The surface functionality is rooted in its electronic and magnetic properties, determined by a complex interplay of la ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

"Divergent Total Synthesis of (-)-Rhazinilam, (-)-Leucomidine B and (+)-Leuconodine F" and "Synthetic Studies Towards Sarpagine-Related Indoles"

Dylan Jean Robert Dagoneau

The work presented in this thesis focuses on the synthesis of monoterpene indole alkaloids. The first part describes the divergent total synthesis of (-)-rhazinilam, (-)-leucomidine B and (+)-leuconodine F, three structurally distinct natural products of t ...

EPFL2017

Access to Chiral Cyclopentane Scaffolds by Enantioselective Nickel-Catalyzed Annulations

Joachim Sven Ernst Ahlin

The cyclopentane scaffold has attracted much attention due to its ubiquity in numerous bioactive natural products such as prostaglandins and polyquinanes. However, despite a plethora of available procedures to access this motif, a lack of methods that riva ...

EPFL2016

Z-Selective Olefin Synthesis via Iron-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Alkyl Halides with Terminal Arylalkynes

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung, Fedor Zhurkin

Selective catalytic synthesis of Z-olefins has been challenging. Here we describe a method to produce 1,2-disubstituted olefins in high Z selectivity via reductive cross-coupling of alkyl halides with terminal arylalkynes. The method employs inexpensive an ...

American Chemical Society2015

Imaging the cellular uptake of tiopronin-modified gold nanoparticles

Giorgio Margaritondo

Well-dispersed gold nanoparticles (NP) coated with tiopronin were synthesized by X-ray irradiation without reducing agents. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy shows that the average core diameters of the NPs can be systematically controlled b ...

Springer Verlag2011

Role of Adsorbed H, C, O, and CO on the Atomic Structure of Free and MgO(100)-Supported Ir-4 Clusters: An ab Initio Study

Alfonso Baldereschi

We applied density functional theory based on ultrasoft pseudopotentials to study the structural properties of Ir-4 clusters both in the gas phase and adsorbed on a MgO(100) surface. To resolve the discrepancy between experimental data which suggest a tetr ...

2010

Effect of Lewis acids on the Diels-Alder reaction in ionic liquids with different activation modes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Ana Vidis

The Diels-Alder reaction has been examd. in room temp. ionic liqs. with high molar concns. of Lewis acids under various conditions. A molar ratio of 10% catalyst gave a large increase in the selectivity and the yield of the reaction. The effect of catalyst ...

2008

Ligand synthesis for homogeneous catalysis : from tertiary monophosphines to atropisomeric bisphosphines

Michael Maurin

Organophosphorus compounds found applications in varied fields of the organic chemistry: they are particularly present in natural compounds such as the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and in the field of catalysis in which their utility is also proven. Thus, t ...

EPFL2007