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Transition Metal Oxides as Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Solutions: An Application-Inspired Renaissance

Xile Hu, Lichen Bai, Fang Song, Laurent Liardet, Seunghwa Lee, Aliki Moysiadou

Water splitting is the essential chemical reaction to enable the storage of intermittent energies such as solar and wind in the form of hydrogen fuel. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is often considered as the bottleneck in water splitting. Though meta ...

2018

Robust Piperidinium-Enriched Polystyrene Ionomers for Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells and Water Electrolyzers

Xile Hu, Fang Song, Nanjun Chen

Durable and efficient anion exchange polyelectrolytes (AEPs) are crucial for the long-term operation of cost-effective anion exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs) and water electrolyzers (AEMWEs). Here, we present a new class of ?-amine-piperidinium-functi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

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

An Easily Accessed Nickel Nanoparticle Catalyst for Alkene Hydrosilylation with Tertiary Silanes

Xile Hu, Fang Song, Ivan Buslov

The first efficient and non-precious nanoparticle catalyst for alkene hydrosilylation with commercially relevant tertiary silanes has been developed. The nickel nanoparticle catalyst was prepared in situ from a simple nickel alkoxide precatalyst Ni((OBu)-B ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

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

Mechanism of Oxygen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobalt Oxyhydroxide: Cobalt Superoxide Species as a Key Intermediate and Dioxygen Release as a Rate-Determining Step

Xile Hu, Seunghwa Lee, Aliki Moysiadou

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the performance-limiting half reaction of water splitting, which can be used to produce hydrogen fuel using renewable energies. Whereas a number of transition metal oxides and oxyhydroxides have been developed as prom ...

2020

Room temperature C(sp(2))-H oxidative chlorination via photoredox catalysis

Xile Hu, Lei Zhang

Photoredox catalysis has been developed to achieve oxidative C-H chlorination of aromatic compounds using NaCl as the chlorine source and Na2S2O8 as the oxidant. The reactions occur at room temperature and exhibit exclusive selectivity for C(sp(2))-H bonds ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Operando identification of a side-on nickel superoxide intermediate and the mechanism of oxygen evolution on nickel oxyhydroxide

Xile Hu, Lichen Bai, Seunghwa Lee

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key electrochemical reac-tion relevant to energy storage. Ni-containing bimetallic oxyhydrox-ides are among the most active OER catalysts in alkaline medium, but the mechanism of OER on pure Ni oxyhydroxide remains ...

ELSEVIER2023

Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production in Alkaline Solutions Using Cu2O Coated with Earth-Abundant Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Stanley David Tilley, Laurent Liardet, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

The splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules using sunlight is an attractive method for solar energy storage. Until now, photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution is mostly studied in acidic solutions, in which the hydrogen evolution is more fac ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Photoelectrochemical deposition of CoP on cuprous oxide photocathodes for solar hydrogen production

Xile Hu, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Lucas-Alexandre Stern, Laurent Liardet, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is an attractive and sustainable energy conversion method. In this work, cobalt phosphide (CoP) is photoelectrochemically deposited on a p-type cuprous oxide (pCu(2)O) photocathode for solar hydrogen production. U ...

Elsevier2017

Amorphous molybdenum sulfides as hydrogen evolution catalysts

Xile Hu, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Providing energy for a population projected to reach 9 billion people within the middle of this century is one of the most pressing societal issues. Burning fossil fuels at a rate and scale that satisfy our near-term demand will irreversibly damage the liv ...

American Chemical Society2014

Synthesis and electronic properties of a pentafluoroethyl-derivatized nickel pincer complex

Xile Hu, Oleg Vechorkin, Peng Ren

The synthesis of a bis(amino)amide nickel pincer complex bearing a perfluoroethyl ligand was effected by reaction of the corresponding nickel chloride complex with cesium fluoride and trimethyl(pentafluoroethyl)silane. Electrochemical experiments revealed ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Nickel-Catalyzed Regioselective Hydroalkylation and Hydroarylation of Alkenyl Boronic Esters

Xile Hu, Srikrishna Bera

Metal hydride catalyzed hydrocarbonation reactions of alkenes are an efficient approach to construct new carbon-carbon bonds from readily available alkenes. However, the regioselectivity of hydrocarbonation remains challenging to be controlled. In nickel h ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Decarboxylative C(sp3 )−O Cross-Coupling

Xile Hu, Runze Mao

Alkyl aryl ethers are an important class of compounds in medicinal and agricultural chemistry. Catalytic C(sp3)−O cross‐coupling of alkyl electrophiles with phenols is an unexplored disconnection strategy to the synthesis of alkyl aryl ethers, with the pot ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Nickel catalysis enables convergent paired electrolysis for direct arylation of benzylic C–H bonds

Xile Hu, Lei Zhang

Convergent paired electrosynthesis is an energy-efficient approach in organic synthesis; however, it is limited by the difficulty to match the innate redox properties of reaction partners. Here we use nickel catalysis to cross-couple the two intermediates ...

2020

An efficient nickel hydrogen oxidation catalyst for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells

Xile Hu, Andreas Schueler, Liang Yao, Jeremy Luterbacher, Anna Krammer, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Seunghwa Lee, Weiyan Ni

Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells are promising as an energy conversion technology, but require platinum group metal electrocatalysts for their application. A Ni-based hydrogen oxidation reaction catalyst is now shown to exhibit unprecedented electroc ...

2022

Decarboxylative C(sp3)–N cross-coupling via synergetic photoredox and copper catalysis

Xile Hu, Runze Mao

Amines are a quintessential moiety in bioactive molecules, pharmaceuticals and organic materials. Transition-metal-catalysed C–N coupling of aryl electrophiles has been established as a powerful and reliable method for amine synthesis. However, the analogo ...

2018

Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalytic Application of a Nickel Pincer Hydride Complex

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Jan Breitenfeld

The nickel(II) hydride complex [(MeN2N)Ni-H] (2) was synthesized by the reaction of [(MeN2N)Ni-OMe] (6) with Ph2SiH2 and was characterized by NMR and IR spectroscopy as well as X-ray crystallography. 2 was unstable in solution, and it decomposed via two re ...

American Chemical Society2012

Mechanistic Investigations of Nickamine-catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Alkenes: Nickel Nanoparticles Are the Active Species

Xile Hu, Marten Leendert Ploeger

Hydrosilylation is an important chemical process for the synthesis of organosilanes and for the production of silicone polymers. The wide variety of catalysts developed for this reaction generally follow a Chalk-Harrod, or a sigma-bond metathesis mechanism ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2020

Ni2P enhances the activity and durability of the Pt anode catalyst in direct methanol fuel cells

Xile Hu, Ligang Feng

Pt is the state-of-the-art anode catalyst in direct methanol fuel cells. Here we report that Ni2P promotes the activity and stability of Pt in electrochemical methanol oxidation. Nanoparticles of Ni2P and Pt were co-deposited on a carbon support and their ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014