Publications associées à Nickamine and Analogous Nickel Pincer Catalysts for Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Halides and Hydrosilylation of Alkenes

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Radical-Mediated Azidation of Benzylic C-H Bonds and Azidofunctionalization of Alkenes

Organic azides are known for their reactivity and broad applicability in organic synthesis. These compounds are pivotal in various chemical transformations, including nucleophilic substitution and cycloaddition reactions. Beyond synthetic chemistry, organi ...

EPFL2025

Development of synthetic methods starting from cyclopropenes: taming cyclopropyl radical, cyclopropyl and cyclopropenium cations

Vladyslav Smyrnov

Due to the high ring strain and unique bonding, cyclopropenes represent important 3-carbon synthons in organic synthesis. Intrigued by the unique reactivity of cyclopropenes, we were interested in further exploration of their chemical properties. Trying to ...

EPFL2025

Highly diastereoselective and enantioselective cyclopropanation of alkenes catalyzed by a chiral iridium(III) porphyrin complex

Jieping Zhu

Extensive research has been conducted on chiral porphyrin-metal complex (M = Co, Rh, Ru, Fe)-catalyzed asymmetric cyclopropanation of alkenes. However, the corresponding iridium complex has scarcely been exploited for this purpose. We report herein that th ...

2025

Novel Alkynylation Methods through the Combination of Hypervalent Iodine Reagents and Alkynyl-trifluoroborate Salts

Julien Aymeric Borrel

The alkyne motif is a versatile functional group often encountered in organic chemistry. It can be involved in various transformations such as the alkyne-azide cycloaddition and has found widespread application in medicinal chemistry, chemical biology and ...

EPFL2024

Coordination polymers: from uranium(IV) and thorium(IV) to non-uranyl U(V) and U(VI)

Andrei Andreichenko

This thesis explores the diverse chemistry of thorium and uranium coordination polymers, focusing on actinides in +4 and +5 oxidation states, and their reactivity with various ligands. While uranium predominantly exists as the uranyl cation [UO2]2+ in the ...

EPFL2025

Encapsulated Co–Ni alloy boosts high-temperature CO2 electroreduction

Jiaming Tian, Xile Hu, Jeremy Luterbacher, Wenhao Ren, Wenchao Ma, Seongmin Jin

Electrochemical CO 2 reduction into chemicals and fuels holds great promise for renewable energy storage and carbon recycling 1–3 . Although high-temperature CO 2 electroreduction in solid oxide electrolysis cells is industrially relevant, current catalyst ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Lewis acid catalyzed [4+2] annulation of bicyclobutanes with dienol ethers for the synthesis of bicyclo[4.1.1]octanes

Jérôme Waser, Stefano Nicolai

Bicyclic carbocycles containing a high fraction of Csp3 have become highly attractive synthetic targets because of the multiple applications they have found in medicinal chemistry. The formal cycloaddition of bicyclobutanes (BCBs) with two- or three-atom p ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

The simultaneous Selective Catalytic Reduction of N2O and NO over Fe-exchanged zeolites

Filippo Buttignol

Iron-exchanged zeolites are industrial heterogeneous catalysts deployed to remediate anthropogenic emissions of both nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2). Despite the extensive scientific attention received, limited knowledge is availab ...

EPFL2024

Speciation-dependent molecular mechanism of electron transfer from the c-type cytochrome MtrC to U(VI)-ligand complexes

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Luciano Andres Abriata, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Margaux Camille Andréa Molinas

Members of the Shewanella genus transfer electrons to metal and actinide electron acceptors such as hexavalent uranium, U(VI), via c-type cytochromes. The intracellular mechanism of electron transfer is well studied but the delivery of electrons to externa ...

2025

Highly parallel optimisation of chemical reactions through automation and machine intelligence

Philippe Schwaller

We report the development and application of a scalable machine learning (ML) framework (Minerva) for highly parallel multi-objective reaction optimisation with automated high-throughput experimentation (HTE). Minerva demonstrates robust performance with e ...

2025

Synthesis of Mono- and Multimetallic Complexes of f-Elements in Low Oxidation States for Small Molecule Activation

Keerthi Shivaraam Rangaraj Ananthakumar

The chemistry of the f-elements, especially uranium, in very low oxidation states has seen significant advances in the last two decades. These low-valent species have often been demonstrated to be crucial in the activation of small molecules such as N2 and ...

EPFL2025

Probing Catalytic Sites and Adsorbate Spillover on Ultrathin FeO2-x Film on Ir(111) during CO Oxidation

Harald Brune, Hao Yin

The spatially resolved identification of active sites on the heterogeneous catalyst surface is an essential step toward directly visualizing a catalytic reaction with atomic scale. To date, ferrous centers on platinum group metals have shown promising pote ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Ionic Iridium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Pyridines

Arthur Rémi Despois

Catalytic hydrogenation stands out as a powerful tool for the atom-economical transformation of unsaturated systems. Nitrogen heterocycles are widespread in organic chemistry, they are found in many natural products and exhibit notable biological activitie ...

EPFL2025

Engineering Frustrated Lewis Pair Active Sites in Porous Organic Scaffolds for Catalytic CO2 Hydrogenation

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Rubén Laplaza Solanas, Shubhajit Das, Jacob Terence Blaskovits

Frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs), featuring reactive combinations of Lewis acids and Lewis bases, have been utilized for myriad metal-free homogeneous catalytic processes. Immobilizing the active Lewis sites to a solid support, especially to porous scaffolds, ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

The Chemical Nature of the Oxide Directs the Stability and Reactivity of Copper|Oxide Interfaces in the Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Jari Leemans, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Krishna Kumar

Understanding the impact of composition and interfaces between metals and oxides is a goal of interest for many chemical reactions. Herein, we propose a framework to map correlations between the electrochemical behavior of the oxide and the stability and r ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Tailoring nanocatalysts and reaction interfaces for water- and CO2-electrolysis

Thi Ha My Pham

Renewable energy sources offer a promising solution for mitigating sustainability and CO2 emissions-related issues due to their vast energy generation capacity. They enable hydrogen production via water electrolysis, as well as carbon capture and utilizati ...

EPFL2024

Low-Power Tunable Micro-Plasma Devices for Efficient and Scalable CO2 Conversion

Bartu Karakurt

CO2 conversion plays a vital role in addressing climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions and promoting a circular carbon economy. Rather than releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, carbon dioxide recycling technologies allows transformatio ...

EPFL2025

Photogeneration of Hydrogen: Insights from a Pt(II)-Complex Incorporated into a Covalent Organic Framework

Federico De Biasi

Pt(II)-based molecular catalysts stand as a prototypical system in hydrogen evolution reactions (HER) owing to their consistently elevated activity levels. Their integration into heterogeneous systems thus provides an ideal platform to develop catalytic ma ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2024

Precious Metals recovery using novel metal-organic framework (MOF)

Jocelyn Richard Roth

Gold plays a dominant role in our modern society. Initially used in coinage and jewelry, it has become an essential metal for the electronics industries. Today, more gold is consumed than mined from virgin ores. Therefore, gold recycling methods have becom ...

EPFL2025

Stabilization versus competing de-metalation, trans-metalation and (cyclo)-dehydrogenation of Pd porphyrins at a copper surface

Francesco Armillotta

Metal-porphyrins are studied intensively due their potential applications, deriving from the variety of electronic and chemical properties, tunable by selecting metal centers and functional groups. Metalation, de- and trans-metalation processes are fundame ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024