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Kinetic Network Modeling of the Catalytic Upgrading of Biomass's Acetate Fraction to Aromatics

Jeremy Luterbacher, Jher Hau Yeap, Bartosz Rozmyslowicz

The acetate fraction is the fourth most abundant fraction by weight in many plant species and can be easily extracted as acetic acid in high yields. We have previously shown that acetic acid obtained from steam pretreated beech wood could be upgraded in a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Rh-catalyzed C-H Bond Heteroarylation with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents and Pd-Catalyzed Tethered Functionalizations of Carbon-Carbon Multiple Bonds

Ashis Kumar Das

Transition metal-catalyzed C-H activation is a powerful tool for the synthesis of organic building blocks, materials, and natural products. Over the last decade, directing-group-assisted metal-catalyzed C-H functionalization has attracted increasing intere ...

EPFL2022

Atomic Level Insights of Non-Noble Metal Catalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Lichen Bai

The conversion of intermittent renewable energy resources in the form of chemical bond, such as hydrogen production from electrochemical water splitting, is a promising way to satisfy the future global energy demand and address the environmental issues. Th ...

EPFL2021

Hydrogenation of a Benzene-Toluene Mixture Using Metal Nanoparticles Stabilized by a Hyper-Crosslinked Aromatic Polymer

Lioubov Kiwi

Hydrogenation of aromatic compounds is a widely used catalytic process in modern industry. Selective hydrogenation of benzene (BZ)-toluene (TL) mixtures is an important industrial process as it allows the purification of BZ for further synthetic purposes. ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Catalyst Evolution Enhances Production of Xylitol from Acetal-Stabilized Xylose

Jeremy Luterbacher, Benjamin Pierre Le Monnier, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago, Jher Hau Yeap

We demonstrate a catalytic process for xylitol production based on the volatility and unique reactivity of diformylxylose (DFX), which can be produced at near theoretical yield from biomass and, contrary to xylose, can be easily purified by distillation. T ...

2020

Imaging the Heterogeneity of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Gold Electrodes Operando: Activity is Highly Local

Sylvie Roke, Arianna Marchioro, Igor Nahálka

Understanding the mechanism of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), the oxidative half of electrolytic water splitting, has proven challenging. Perhaps the largest hurdle has been gaining experimental insight into the active site of the electrocatalyst use ...

2020

Catalytic valorization of the acetate fraction of biomass to aromatics and its integration into the carboxylate platform

Jeremy Luterbacher, Benjamin Pierre Le Monnier, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago, Jher Hau Yeap, Bartosz Rozmyslowicz

In many plant species, the acetate fraction is the fourth most prominent fraction by weight after cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, and can be easily extracted as a single stable molecule, acetic acid, at high yields. Despite this, upgrading the acetate ...

2019

Machine learning meets volcano plots: Computational discovery of cross-coupling catalysts

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Benjamin André René Meyer, Anatole von Lilienfeld, Boodsarin Sawatlon

The application of modern machine learning to challenges in atomistic simulation is gaining attraction. We present new machine learning models that can predict the energy of the oxidative addition process between a transition metal complex and a substrate ...

2018

"Palladium-Catalyzed Diamination of Alkynes in Synthesis of Tetracycles" and "Copper-Catalyzed Cyanoalkylation of Unactivated Alkenes"

Minh Tu Ha

The thesis deals with the development of transition metal-catalyzed difunctionalization of alkenes and alkynes, which can be categorized into two major topics: (1) palladium-catalyzed diamination of alkynes for the synthesis of tetracycles; (2) copper-cata ...

EPFL2017

Copper-Catalyzed 1,2-Addition of alpha-Carbonyl Iodides to Alkynes

Xile Hu, Tao Xu

beta,gamma,-Unsaturated ketones are an important class of organic molecules. Herein, copper catalysis has been developed for the synthesis of --unsaturated ketones through 1,2-addition of -carbonyl iodides to alkynes. The reactions exhibit wide substrate s ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Electrostatic and Non-covalent Interactions in Dicationic Imidazolium-Sulfonium Salts with Mixed Anions

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Gabor Laurenczy, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan

A series of thioether-functionalised imidazolium salts have been prepared and characterized. Subsequent reaction of the thioether-functionalised imidazolium salts with iodomethane affords imidazolium-sulfonium salts composed of doubly charged cations and t ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Synthesis and Reactivity of Mononuclear Iron Models of [Fe]-Hydrogenase that Contain an Acylmethylpyridinol Ligand

Xile Hu, Dafa Chen

[Fe]-hydrogenase has a single iron-containing active site that features an acylmethylpyridinol ligand. This unique ligand environment had yet to be reproduced in synthetic models; however the synthesis and reactivity of a new class of small molecule mimics ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Total Synthesis of Cyrneine A

Karl Gademann, Cindy Fellay

The tricyclic diterpene cyrneine A featuring a hexatrienal unit was prepared synthetically for the first time by a Heck reaction, a carbene ring expansion, and a reductive carbonylation. The structure of the natural product was assigned by X‐ray crystal an ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2012

Biphasic Model Describing Soybean Oil Epoxidation with H2O2 in Continuous Reactors

Albert Renken

Epoxidized soybean oil (ESBO) is produced in industry by reacting soybean oil, at 60-70 degrees C, with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of formic or acetic acid. A small amount of sulphuric or phosphoric acid is necessary to catalyze the oxidation of the ...

2012

Hydrogen evolution catalyzed by MoS3 and MoS2 particles

Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Daniel Andreas Merki

Amorphous MoS3 particles are prepared using a simple chemical method. Several deposition techniques are developed to fabricate electrodes loaded with MoS3 particles. These electrodes are highly active for hydrogen evolution. The catalytically active specie ...

2012

Hydrogen evolution at polarised liquid/liquid interfaces catalyzed by molybdenum disulfide

Hubert Girault, Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Peiyu Ge, Imren Hatay

Molybdenum disulfide microparticles in suspension in an aqueous acidic solution adsorb at the interface with an organic electrolyte solution containing the reducing agent, decamethylferrocene, to catalyse hydrogen evolution. This catalytic process has been ...

2011

Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes Based on Phenyl-Imidazole Ligand

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti

Phenyl-imidazole-based ligands with various substitution patterns have been used as the main ligand for heteroleptic bis-cyclometalated Iridium complexes. Two series of complexes have been prepared and their photophysical and electrochemical properties wer ...

2011

pH control for enhanced reductive bioremediation of chlorinated solvent source zones

David Andrew Barry, Clare Robinson

Enhanced reductive dehalogenation is an attractive treatment technology for in situ remediation of chlorinated solvent DNAPL source areas. Reductive dehalogenation is an acid-forming process with hydrochloric acid and also organic acids from fermentation o ...

Elsevier2009

Promoting Role of [PtI2(CO)]2 in the Iridium-Catalyzed Methanol Carbonylation to Acetic Acid and Its Interaction with Involved Iridium Species

Gabor Laurenczy

The catalytic activity of the iridium complexes involved in methanol carbonylation is significantly enhanced when the carbonyliodoplatinum dimer [PtI2(CO)]2 (10') is added to the reaction mixt. Under CO this complex readily affords th ...

2006

Analysis of the Synergistic Effect of Carbonylplatinum Complexes on the Iridium-Catalysed Carbonylation of Methanol to Acetic Acid

Gabor Laurenczy

High-pressure NMR mechanistic investigations into the promoting role of dicarbonyldiiodoplatinum complex in the iridium-catalysed carbonylation of methanol to acetic acid are consistent with iodide abstraction from the [IrI3(CH3)(CO)2]– resting state speci ...

2006