Publications related to Synthesis and Reactivity of Iron Acyl Complexes Modeling the Active Site of [Fe]-Hydrogenase

Palladium-based supramolecular assemblies: from complex structures to water-soluble anion-receptors

The combination of palladium salts and bipyridyl ligands can lead to the formation of a large variety of coordination complexes, with different shapes and sizes, displaying a very versatile host-guest chemistry. Increasing their structural complexity remai ...

EPFL2024

Beyond the coupled distortion model: structural analysis of the single domain cupredoxin AcoP, a green mononuclear copper centre with original features

Luciano Andres Abriata

Cupredoxins are widely occurring copper-binding proteins with a typical Greek-key beta barrel fold. They are generally described as electron carriers that rely on a T1 copper centre coordinated by four ligands provided by the folded polypeptide. The discov ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Synthesis and Reactivity of an Anionic Diazoolefin

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Zhaowen Dong, Bastiaan Kooij

Bent (hetero)allenes such as carbodicarbenes and carbodiphosphoranes can act as neutral C-donor ligands, and diverse applications in coordination chemistry have been reported. N-Heterocyclic diazoolefins are heterocumulenes, which can function in a similar ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Multiple Surface Site Three-Dimensional Structure Determination of a Supported Molecular Catalyst

David Benjamin Roger Antoine Gajan, Pierrick Berruyer, Moreno Lelli, Zhuoran Wang

The structural characterization of supported molecular catalysts is challenging due to the low density of active sites and the presence of several organic/organometallic surface groups resulting from the often complex surface chemistry associated with supp ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Computational Studies of the Proton-Coupled Metal Ion Transport in the SLC11/NRAMP Family of Transporters

Maria Letizia Merlini

In the last years, it has been demonstrated a link between the overload of metal ions inside nervous system cells and the onset of severe neurodegenerative diseases. This prompted the investigation of the structural and functional properties of transporter ...

EPFL2022

Urea Derivative-Promoted CsPbl(2)Br Perovskite Solar Cells with High Open-Circuit Voltage

Xin Guo, Bowen Yang, Yang Liu, Chen Li

Inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have witnessed extraordinary advances owing to their prominent stability against thermal aging. However, they suffer from a phase transition from black phase to yellow phase under ambient conditions and serious energ ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Synthesis, structural characterization, and coordination chemistry of imidazole-based alkylidene ketenes

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Paul Varava, Wolfram Feuerstein

Alkylidene ketenes typically display high intrinsic reactivity, impeding isolation on a preparative scale. Herein, we report the synthesis of alkylidene ketenes by reaction of imidazole-based diazoolefins with carbon monoxide. The good thermal stability of ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Hetero-Bis-Conjugation of Bioactive Molecules to Half-Sandwich Ruthenium(II) and Iridium(III) Complexes Provides Synergic Effects in Cancer Cell Cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor, Mouna Hadiji

Four bipyridine-type ligands variably derivatized with two bioactive groups (taken from ethacrynic acid, flurbiprofen, biotin, and benzylpenicillin) were prepared via sequential esterification steps from commercial 2,2'-bipyridine-4,4'-dicarboxylic acid an ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Photo- and thermally-induced electronic and structural dynamics in perovskites and transition metal oxides

Oliviero Cannelli

In this thesis, we exploited optical and X-ray pump-probe methods in a synergistic approach to study the interplay of the electronic, spin and structural degrees of freedom in two class of complex systems relevant for solar energy conversion applications: ...

EPFL2021

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Studies of Low-Dimensional and Frustrated 3d Transition-Metal Oxides

Yi Tseng

3d transition-metal oxide materials with strong electron correlations and low dimensionality give rise to emerging exotic phases. Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) has developed as a powerful spectroscopic tool for probing the collective excitatio ...

EPFL2021

Structure-Property Relationships of Microphase-Separated Metallosupramolecular Polymers

Emad Oveisi, Stephen Schrettl

The structural, thermomechanical, and viscoelastic properties of metallosupramolecular polymers (MSPs) can be controlled through the choice of the multiligand monomer and the nature of the metal salt from which these materials are assembled. This versatili ...

American Chemical Society2020

Picometer Resolution Structure of the Coordination Sphere in the Metal-Binding Site in a Metalloprotein by NMR

David Lyndon Emsley, Andrea Bertarello

Most of our understanding of chemistry derives from atomic-level structures obtained with single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Metal centers in X-ray structures of small organometallic or coordination complexes are often extremely well-defined, with errors in ...

2020

Accelerated Discovery of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) For Energy Related Applications

Arunraj Chidambaram

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of materials that consist of metal ions which are linked with organic ligands via coordination bonds to form extended networks. MOF structures consists predominantly of open voids which makes them among ...

EPFL2020

Reactivity and biological activity of N,N,S-Schiff-base rhodium pentamethylcyclopentadienyl complexes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor

Neutral piano-stool complexes of the general formula [(eta(5)-C5Me5)Rh(L-OR)] (R = Me, 1; R = Et, 2; R = Pe(i), 3) have been prepared in alcohols (methanol, 1; ethanol, 2; isopropanol, 3) from the Schiff-base 5-methyl-4-{(pyridin-2-ylmethylene)amino}-4H-1, ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Stabilization of the Oxidation State plus IV in Siloxide-Supported Terbium Compounds

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Ivica Zivkovic, Aurélien René Willauer

The synthesis of lanthanides other than cerium in the oxidation state +IV has remained a desirable but unmet target until recently, when two examples of Tb-IV with saturated coordination spheres were isolated. Here we report the third example of an isolate ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Divergent Synthesis of Densely Substituted Arenes and Pyridines via Cyclotrimerization Reactions of Alkynyl Triazenes

Kay Severin, Florian Gérald Abela, Nicolai Cramer, Frederick Mark Chadwick, Jin Fay Tan, Carl Thomas Bormann

Densely substituted fused aromatic triazenes can be prepared by [2 + 2 + 2] cyclotrimerization reactions of 1-alkynyl triazenes. The Cp*Ru-catalyzed cyclization proceeds well with both simple alkynyl triazenes and tethered 1-diynyl triazenes. Attractively, ...

2019

Highly stable enzyme-mimicking nanocomposite of antioxidant activity

Bálint Náfrádi, Marko Pavlovic

A highly stable nanocomposite of antioxidant activity was developed by immobilization of a superoxide dismutase-mimicking metal complex on copolymer-functionalized nanoclay. The layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanoclays were synthesized and surface modifica ...

2019

Rh-I, Ir-III ,and Co-III Complexes with Atropchiral Biaryl Cyclopentadienyl Ligands: Syntheses, Structures, and Catalytic Activities

Nicolai Cramer, Gints Smits, Coralie Danielle Annick Duchemin

Chiral cyclopentadienyl (Cp-x) group 9 metal complexes have become versatile catalysts for a variety of efficient enantioselective C-H functionalizations. Atropchiral binaphthyl-derived Cp-x ligands having tuning options at the 3,3'-positions present a rob ...

2019

Molecular nanostructures based on polyfunctional clathrochelate complexes

Suzanne Maria Jansze

This thesis describes the design and synthesis of clathrochelate metalloligands for the construction of molecular nanostructures. The low synthetic effort, versatility and stability of the clathrochelate metalloligands makes them particularly suited to the ...

EPFL2019

Fine-tuning the coordination atoms of copper redox mediators: an effective strategy for boosting the photovoltage of dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Mei Wang, Chong Liu

Natural systems have marvelously utilized copper complexes featuring sulfur-coordinating ligands, known as blue copper proteins, as efficient electron-transfer mediators in biological processes. Copper complexes with sulfur-coordinating ligands have been a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019