Publications related to HSAB theory

Unidirectional penetration approach for characterizing sulfate attack mechanisms on cement mortars and pastes

Karen Scrivener, Qiao Wang, William Wilson

Degradation of cementitious materials by sulfate ions is commonly classified into chemical and physical sulfate attack. So-called "physical" attack dominates in many field situations, but laboratory testing focuses on "chemical" attack under full-immersion ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Activation of aminocyclopropanes via radical intermediates

Jérôme Waser, Mingming Wang

Aminocyclopropanes are versatile building blocks for accessing high value-added nitrogen-containing products. To control ring-opening promoted by ring strain, the Lewis acid activation of donor-acceptor substituted systems is now well established. Over the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

Recent Advances in Group 14 and 15 Lewis Acids for Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry

Shubhajit Das

Frustrated Lewis pairs (FLP) which rely on the cooperative action of Lewis acids and Lewis bases, played a prominent role in the advancement of main-group catalysis. While the early days of FLP chemistry witnessed the dominance of boranes, there is a growi ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

A smart low molecular weight gelator for the triple detection of copper (II), mercury (II), and cyanide ions in water resources

Rosario Scopelliti

Novel supramolecular gelators based on quinoline-indolin-2-one structure were synthesized. These gelators formed stable organogels in a mixture of DMSO/H2O (1:1). The scanning electron microscopy (SEM), IR and NMR spectroscopies, and rheological measuremen ...

ELSEVIER2020

REX technologies for profiling and decoding the electrophile signaling axes mediated by Rosetta Stone proteins

Yimon Aye, Daniel Ahmet Urul

It is now clear that some cysteines on some proteins are highly tuned to react with electrophiles. Based on numerous studies, it is also established that electrophile sensing underpins rewiring of several critical signaling processes. These electrophile-se ...

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Confinement of fluorine anions in nickel-based catalysts for greatly enhancing oxygen evolution activity

Yun Tong, Pengzuo Chen

Herein, we highlighted fluorine-anion-modification as a useful method for enhancing OER catalytic activity. Fluorine-anion-doped Ni foam exhibits an almost 10-fold enhancement in OER catalytic activity. Moreover, fluorine-anion-modification could be used a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Assembly of Robust Holmium-Directed 2D Metal-Organic Coordination Complexes and Networks on the Ag(100) Surface

Harald Brune

We describe the formation of lanthanide-organic coordination networks and complexes under ultra-high-vacuum conditions on a clean Ag(100) surface. The structures comprise single Ho atoms as coordination centers and 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate (from terephtali ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Development of an Efficient Dual-Action GST-Inhibiting Anticancer Platinum(IV) Prodrug

Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Wee Han Ang

The cytotoxicity of cisplatin (cDDP) is enhanced when co-administered with ethacrynic acid (EA), a glutathione S-transferase (GST) inhibito r. A Pt-lV EA conjugate containing a cDDP core and two axial ethacrynate ligands (compound 1) was shown to be an ex ...

2018

On Lewis acidity/basicity and hydrogen bonding in the equation-of-state approach

Vassily Hatzimanikatis

The central objective of this work is to revisit the development of the widely used Lewis acidity/basicity scales and seek possibilities for their eventual unification. The primary focus is on hydrogen bonding interactions which are dealt with the estimati ...

Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd2017

On the functional group composition of organic aerosol

Giulia Ruggeri

Atmospheric aerosol is ubiquitous and its impact on climate and health has not been fully understood yet. Multiple diverse processes and sources lead to atmospheric aerosol formation and emission and this reflects on its heterogeneity in chemical compositi ...

EPFL2017

NbTiN thin films deposited by hybrid HiPIMS/DC magnetron co-sputtering

Rosendo Sanjines, Alireza Karimi, Ayat Karimi, Samy Adjam, Daniela Dumitriu La Grange

Nb1 - xTixNy thin films (with 0

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Fingerprinting the reactive toxicity pathways of 50 drinking water disinfection by-products

Urs von Gunten

A set of nine in vitro cellular bioassays indicative of different stages of the cellular toxicity pathway was applied to 50 disinfection by-products (DBPs) to obtain a better understanding of the commonalities and differences in the molecular mechanisms of ...

Elsevier2016

Development of Accurate and Efficient Electronic Structure Approaches for the Description of Organic Systems

Riccardo Petraglia

The overarching objective of this thesis is extending and adapting the set of computational tools available for describing molecular precursors of organic semiconductors. The research presented within develops adhering to three principle goals: (1) provide ...

EPFL2016

Electrochemical oxygen reduction at soft interfaces catalyzed by the transfer of hydrated lithium cations

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Thomas James Stockmann, Haiqiang Deng

The oxygen reduction reaction by decamethylferrocene (DMFc), triggered by hydrophilic metallic cations behaving as Lewis acids towards water molecules in a homogeneous organic phase reaction, was investigated using cyclic voltammetry at the water|1,2-dichl ...

Elsevier2014

Striking Influence of the Catalyst Support and Its Acid–Base Properties: New Insight into the Growth Mechanism of Carbon Nanotubes

Arnaud Magrez, Gabor Laurenczy, Endre Horvath, Jin Won Seo, Rita Smajda, Donatello Acquaviva, Juan Carlos Andresen

In the accepted mechanisms of carbon nanotube (CNT) growth by catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CCVD), the catalyst support is falsely considered as a passive material whose only role is to prevent catalytic particles from coarsening. The chemical chang ...

2011

Tetraalkylammonium Salts of Weakly Coordinating Aluminates: Ionic Liquids, Materials for Electrochemical Applications and Useful Compounds for Anion Investigation

Michael Graetzel, Mingkui Wang, Ines Raabe

In this study, we investigated the tetraalkylammonium salts of the weakly coordinating fluorinated alkoxyaluminates pftb (Al(O(C(CF3)(3))(4)) hfip (Al(OC(H)-(CF3)(2))(4)) and hftb (Al(OC(CH3)(-) (CF3)(2))(4)) in order to obtai ...

2009

Water-soluble arene ruthenium complexes containing pyridinethiolato ligands: Synthesis, molecular structure, redox properties and anticancer activity of the cations [(η6-arene)Ru(p-SC5H4NH)3]2+

Paul Joseph Dyson, Anna Katherine Renfrew

The cationic complexes [(η6-arene)Ru(SC5H4NH)3]2+, arene being C6H6 (1), MeC6H5 (2), p-iPrC6H4Me (3) or C6Me6 (4), have been synthesized from the reaction of 4-pyridinethiol with the corresponding precursor (η6-arene)2Ru2(μ2-Cl)2Cl2 and isolated as the chl ...

2008

Salts of electrophilic cations and Lewis acid-base adducts with weakly coordinating anions : synthesis, characterization and quantum chemical calculations

Ines Raabe

During the last decades, weakly coordinating anions (WCAs) have become a field of great interest both in basic and applied chemistry, as – if compared to "normal" classical anions like Cl- or SO42- – they have a lot of unique and unusual properties, such a ...

EPFL2007

Reactivity of manganese, technetium and rhenium aquacarbonyl-complexes as potential precursors for radiopharmaceuticals

Pascal Grundler

Technetium is an artificial element and its isotope 99mTc is now used for several years as radio-imaging agent. Much research effort is directed towards enhanced targeting of the imaging agents in order to improve accuracy of the diagnosis and reduce the r ...

EPFL2005

Niobium nitride based thin films deposited by DC reactive magnetron sputtering : NbN, NbSiN and NbAIN

Due to their high hardness, high melting point and high chemical stability, transition metal nitrides present a great interest for various applications. This work constitutes a contribution to the understanding of the properties of Nb based binary and tern ...

EPFL2005