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Ion ferrique

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Photo-Fenton inactivation of MS2 bacteriophage at alkaline pH by Fe salts or nm to μm-sized oxides, and the Janus-faced effects of natural organic matter in surface waters

César Pulgarin, Stefanos Giannakis

In this study, MS2 bacteriophage was inactivated by homogeneous and heterogeneous photo-Fenton processes in an alkaline matrix (pH 8) using low concentrations of H2O2 and iron forms (1 mg/L), including Fe(II), Fe(III), and Fe (hydr)oxides. As a reference, ...

Elsevier2024

A Mesoionic Diselenolene Anion and the Corresponding Radical Dianion

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Abdusalom Suleymanov, Zhaowen Dong, Cesare Berton

Dichalcogenolenes are archetypal redox non-innocent ligands with numerous applications. Herein, we describe a diselenolene ligand with fundamentally different electronic properties. By selenation of a C2-protected imidazolium salt, we have prepared a mesoi ...

2022

Load-bearing hydrogels ionically reinforced through competitive ligand exchanges

Esther Amstad, Matteo Hirsch, Mathias Steinacher, Ran Zhao

Fast advances in soft robotics and tissue engineering demand for new soft materials whose mechanical properties can be interchangeably and locally varied, thereby enabling, for example, the design of soft joints within an integral material. Inspired by nat ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Weakness of Correlation Effect Manifestation in BaNi2As2: An ARPES and LDA plus DMFT Study

Daniil Yevtushynsky

The electronic spectral function of BaNi2As2 is investigated using both angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and a combined computational scheme of local density approximation and dynamical mean-field theory (LDA + DMFT). In contrast to the we ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Spin cascade and doming in ferric hemes: Femtosecond X-ray absorption and X-ray emission studies

Majed Chergui, Wojciech Gawelda, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Frederico Alves Lima, Oliviero Cannelli, Dominik Kinschel, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel, Rebecca Ann Ingle

The structure-function relationship is at the heart of biology, and major protein deformations are correlated to specific functions. For ferrous heme proteins, doming is associated with the respiratory function in hemoglobin and myoglobins. Cytochrome c (C ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta Aided by Intrinsic Co/Fe Spinel-Like Surface

Vasiliki Tileli, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Thi Ha My Pham, Jan Vávra

Among the perovskites used to catalyze the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (BSCF) exhibits excellent activity which is thought to be related to dynamic reconstruction at the flexible perovskite surface due to accommodation of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Mechanism(s) of electron transfer and metabolic changes during iron reduction by Clostridium acetobutylicum

Cornelia List

Microorganisms catalyze many of the redox transformations driving the iron cycle in the geosphere. For instance, iron cycling includes the reduction of solid-phase and soluble ferric iron (Fe(III)) to ferrous iron (Fe(II)). However, in order to reduce soli ...

EPFL2019

Soluble and Solid Iron Reduction Assays with Desulfitobacterium hafniense

Julien Maillard

There is a pressing need to develop sustainable and efficient methods to protect and stabilize iron objects. To develop a conservation-restoration method for corroded iron objects, this bio-protocol presents the steps to investigate reductive dissolution o ...

2018

Grafted semiconductors on PE-films leading to bacterial inactivation: Synthesis, characterization and mechanism

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi

This study reports the colloidal preparation FeOx, TiO2 and FeOx-TiO2 grafted on polyethylene (PE) films leading to bacterial inactivation. A fast bacterial inactivation was attained by the FeOx-TiO2 compared to the FeOx-PE film due to the interfacial char ...

Elsevier2017

Bacterial inactivation with iron citrate complex: A new source of dissolved iron in solar photo-Fenton process at near-neutral and alkaline pH

César Pulgarin, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Cristina del Socorro Lonfat

This study reports the first application of Fe-citrate-based photo-Fenton chemistry for the inactivation of Escherichia coil. Promising results of bacterial inactivation at near-neutral and alkaline pH conditions were obtained, while using low iron concent ...

Elsevier2016

Electronic transitions of iron in almandine-composition glass to 91 GPa

Philippe Gillet, Susannah McGregor Dorfman

Valence and spin states of Fe were investigated in a glass of almandine (Fe3Al2Si3O12) composition to 91 GPa by X-ray emission spectroscopy and energy- and time-domain synchrotron Mossbauer spectroscopy in the diamond-anvil cell. Changes in optical propert ...

Mineralogical Soc Amer2016

Enhancement of the Fenton and photo-Fenton processes by components found in wastewater from the industrial processing of natural products: The possibilities of cork boiling wastewater reuse

César Pulgarin, Stefanos Papoutsakis

Some wastewaters from the industrial processing of natural products, such as cork boiling wastewater (CBW), have been known to contain high quantities of polyphenolic compounds that are capable of forming complexes with ferric and ferrous iron and even con ...

Elsevier2016

Iron-oxides and iron-citrate as new photocatalysts in solar inactivation of Escherichia coli in water : mechanistic aspects

Cristina del Socorro Lonfat

This study addresses the bacterial inactivation mechanism by photo-Fenton process at near-neutral pH, focusing on iron-oxides and iron-citrate as photocatalysts for solar water disinfection and using E. coli as a bacteria model. Cell envelope damage during ...

EPFL2015

Persistent Bidirectional Optical Switching in the 2D High-Spin Polymer {[Fe(bbtr)3](BF4)2}∞

Philip Pattison

In the covalently linked 2D coordination network {Fe(bbtr)32}∞, bbtr = 1,4-di(1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)butane, the iron(II) centers stay in the high-spin (HS) state down to 10 K. They can, however, be quantitatively converted to the low-spin (LS) state by ...

2012

Femtosecond UV Studies of the Electronic Relaxation Processes in Cytochrome c

Majed Chergui, Andrea Cannizzo, Olivier Christian Bräm, Cristina Consani

We report on an experimental study with UV and visible ultrafast time-gated emission and transient absorption of the early photodynamics of horse heart Cytochrome c in both ferric and ferrous redox states. A clear separation in time and energy of tryptopha ...

2011

Oxygen Dissociation by Concerted Action of Di-Iron Centers in Metal-Organic Coordination Networks at Surfaces: Modeling Non-Heme Iron Enzymes

Klaus Kern, Pietro Gambardella, Sebastian Stepanow, Alexandre Dmitriev

The high chemical reactivity of unsaturated metal sites is a key factor for the development of novel devices with applications in sensor engineering and catalysis. It is also central in the research for sustainable energy concepts, e.g., the efficient prod ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2011

Products of abiotic U(VI) reduction by biogenic magnetite and vivianite

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Daniel Scott Alessi, Elena Suvorova Buffat, Harish Veeramani, Jonathan Sharp

Reductive immobilization of uranium by the stimulation of dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria (DMRB) has been investigated as a remediation strategy for subsurface U(VI) contamination. In those environments, DMRB may utilize a variety of electron accepto ...

Elsevier2011

NMR Study of Ligand Exchange and Electron Self-Exchange between Oxo-Centered Trinuclear Clusters [Fe3(μ3-O)(μ-O2CR)6(4-R´py)3]+/0

André Merbach, Lothar Helm

The syntheses, single crystal X-ray structures, and magnetic properties of the homometallic mu(3)-oxo trinuclear clusters Fe-3(mu(3)-O)(mu-O2CCH3)(6)(4-Phpy)(3) (1) and F(e)3(mu(3)-O)(mu-O(2)CAd)(6)(4-Mepy)(3) (2) are reported (Ad = adamanta ...

American Chemical Society2011

Probing the Electronic Structure of the Hemoglobin Active Center in Physiological Solutions

Majed Chergui

Soft-x-ray absorption spectroscopy at the L2,3 edge of the iron center in bovine Hb and hemin under physiol. conditions is reported for the first time. Spectra of the same compds. in solid form are presented for comparison. Striking differences in the elec ...

2009

An Iron Carbonyl Pyridonate Complex Related to the Active Site of the [Fe]-Hydrogenase (Hmd)

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Dafa Chen

A mononuclear iron bis(carbonyl) pyridonate complex (1), which exhibits several common structural features with the active site of the iron−sulfur cluster-free [Fe]- hydrogenase, was synthesized and characterized. Spectroscopic data of 1 suggests a 2+ oxid ...

2009