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Dynamics of the charge transfer to solvent process in aqueous iodide

Majed Chergui, Alfredo Pasquarello, Jinggang Lan

Charge-transfer-to-solvent states in aqueous halides are ideal systems for studying the electron-transfer dynamics to the solvent involving a complex interplay between electronic excitation and solvent polarization. Despite extensive experimental investiga ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Spin-Control in Electrocatalysis for Clean Energy

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Martina Lihter, Yunchang Liang

A sustainable future demands a successful transition from a carbon energy-dependent economy towards renewable energy schemes, many of which ultimately rely on the development of efficient electrocatalysis that either converts chemical energy into electrici ...

2022

Investigating Tetrel-Based Neutral Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Hydrogen Activation

Shubhajit Das

Tetrel Lewis acids are a prospective alternative to commonly employed neutral boranes in frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry. While cationic tetrylium Lewis acids, being isolobal and iso(valence)electronic, are a natural replacement to boranes, neutral t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Nanostructured NaFeS2 as a cost-effective and robust electrocatalyst for hydrogen and oxygen evolution with reduced overpotentials

Sami Rtimi

One of the biggest challenges currently in the field of energy generation and conservation is to develop a stable, scalable and cost-effective electrocatalyst with reduced overpotentials for both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution react ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Cobalt phosphide nanowires with adjustable iridium, realizing excellent bifunctional activity for acidic water splitting

Yun Tong, Pengzuo Chen

The exploration of highly active bifunctional electrocatalysts for acidic electrochemical water splitting has attracted wide attention due to their importance in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzers. However, existing catalysts normally suffer ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Asymmetric (CpRh)-Rh-x(III)-Catalyzed Acrylic Acid C-H Functionalization with Allenes Provides Chiral gamma-Lactones

Nicolai Cramer, Shouguo Wang

A chiral cyclopentadienyl (Cp-x) ligand featuring the semi-saturated H8-binaphthyl backbone as the chiral element was developed. Its application potential was demonstrated by (CpRhIII)-Rh-x-catalyzed C-H bond functionalization of acryl acids and allenes, e ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts with metal oxide overcoat for renewable catalysis applications

Yuan-Peng Du

Metal oxide deposition is an emerging synthetic technique for designing heterogeneous catalysts. Depositing a nanoscale overcoat of metal oxide on heterogeneous catalysts can modify their structural and chemical characteristics. Many deposition approaches, ...

EPFL2020

Development of Catalytic Asymmetric C-H Functionalizations with Chiral Cyclopentadienyl Iridium(III) Complexes

Yun-Suk Jang

Cp*Ir(III) catalyzed C-H functionalization is a growing field, since it provides novel complementary reactivities, but enantioselective C-H functionalization reactions with this metal remain a niche. This thesis investigates CpXIr(III) catalyzed asymmetric ...

EPFL2019

Enantioselective Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Access to Benzonorcaradienes by Coupling of Oxabenzonorbornadienes and Alkynes

Nicolai Cramer, Shouguo Wang, Sung Hwan Park

Benzonorcaradienes and benzonorcarenes are attractive scaffolds that occur in natural products as well as biologically active compounds. However, there is a significant gap in the current synthetic toolbox as methods to access benzonorcaradiene enantiosele ...

2019

Orientation, rotation and solvation of ions in helium nanodroplets

Verónica Oliver Álvarez de Lara

Helium nanodroplets are liquid, finite size, nanoscale helium clusters that have been employed since the 1990s as a matrix for high-resolution spectroscopy of molecules. Spectroscopic studies of ionic species inside helium droplets were not however realise ...

EPFL2019

Linking Morphology and Multi-Physical Transport in Structured Electrodes

Silvan Suter

Motivated to advance the renewable energy production and diversify the technologies for storable energy carriers, my work is concentrated on the characterization and the optimization of electrode morphologies applicable in photoelectrochemical water-splitt ...

EPFL2019

Cu Photoredox Catalysts Supported by a 4,6-Disubstituted 2,2 '-Bipyridine Ligand: Application in Chlorotrifluoromethylation of Alkenes

Xile Hu, Murat Alkan

Interest in base metal catalysis motivates the development of Cu-based photoredox catalysts for organic synthesis. However, only a few Cu catalysts have been applied in photoredox reactions, the majority of which contain one or two 1,10-phenanthroline liga ...

2018

Fast real time and quantitative gas analysis method for the investigation of the CO2 reduction reaction mechanism

Andreas Züttel, Wen Luo, Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler, Emanuele Moioli

We present a new fast real time and quantitative gas analysis method by means of mass spectrometry (MS), which has approximately an order of magnitude faster sampling rate in comparison with a traditional gas chromatography. The method is presented and dis ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2018

Transition metal clusters on h-BN/Rh(111) : surface interaction and catalytic activity

Hamed Achour

The main aim of this dissertation is to study the catalytic aspects of very small transition metal clusters supported on h-BN/Rh(111). The catalytic reactions of interest were ammonia synthesis and CO oxidation on mass selected and soft landed iron and pla ...

EPFL2017

Molecular insights in aqueous systems : from electrolyte solutions to aqueous nanoscale interfaces

Yixing Chen

The unique structure and dynamics of the water hydrogen (H)-bond network enable a multitude of structures and chemical reactions in both bulk solutions and at interfaces. The underlying molecular interactions between water and dissolved electrolytes, organ ...

EPFL2017

Nitrogen reduction and functionalization by a multimetallic uranium nitride complex

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Ivica Zivkovic, Lucile Sylvie Danielle Chatelain, Marta Falcone

Molecular nitrogen (N-2) is cheap and widely available, but its unreactive nature is a challenge when attempting to functionalize it under mild conditions with other widely available substrates (such as carbon monoxide, CO) to produce value-added compounds ...

2017

All-Vanadium Dual Circuit Redox Flow Battery for Renewable Hydrogen Generation and Desulfurisation

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Heron Vrubel, Frédéric Gumy, Véronique Amstutz, Kathryn Ellen Toghill, Christopher Raymond Dennison

An all-vanadium dual circuit redox flow battery is an electrochemical energy storage system capable to function as a conventional battery, but also to produce hydrogen and perform desulfurization when surplus of electricity is available by chemical dischar ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Nickel-Catalyzed Direct Alkylation of Terminal Alkynes at Room Temperature: A Hemilabile Pincer Ligand Enhances Catalytic Activity

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Peng Ren, Pablo Marcelo Perez Garcia

Direct coupling of alkyl halides with terminal alkynes provides an efficient and streamlined access to alkyl-substituted alkynes, which are important synthetic intermediates, biologically active molecules, and organic materials. However, until now,there ha ...

American Chemical Society2015

Small-Molecule Adsorption in Open-Site Metal-Organic Frameworks: A Systematic Density Functional Theory Study for Rational Design

Berend Smit

Using density functional theory, we systematically compute and investigate the binding enthalpies of 14 different small molecules in a series of isostructural metalorganic frameworks, M-MOF-74, with M = Mg, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn. The small ...

American Chemical Society2015