Publications related to Acetylene

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

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

Revisiting the Impact of Morphology and Oxidation State of Cu on CO2 Reduction Using Electrochemical Flow Cell

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jing Gao, Dan Ren

Electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) in a flow electrolyzer represents a promising carbon-neutral technology with efficient production of valuable chemicals. In this work, the catalytic performance of polycrystalline copper (Cu), Cu2O-derived copper (O ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

C-C bond activation enabled by dyotropic rearrangement of Pd(iv) species

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Hua Wu, Jian Cao

The weak carbon-metal bond combined with the kinetic inertness of the carbon-carbon bond renders metal-catalysed C-C bond activation to be highly challenging. Most of the reported C-C bond activation methodologies involve strain-releasing cleavage of small ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Ethynylation of Cysteine Residues: From Peptides to Proteins in Vitro and in Living Cells

Jérôme Waser, Romain Gaëtan Tessier, Charlotte Marie Sornay, Raj Kumar Nandi

Current approaches to introduce terminal alkynes for bioorthogonal reactions into biomolecules still present limitations in terms of either reactivity, selectivity, or adduct stability. We present a method for the ethynylation of cysteine residues based on ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Molecular motor crossing the frontier of classical to quantum tunneling motion

Harald Brune, Roland Widmer, Jan Prinz, Samuel Thomas Stolz

The reliability by which molecular motor proteins convert undirected energy input into directed motion or transport has inspired the design of innumerable artificial molecular motors. We have realized and investigated an artificial molecular motor applying ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Ketenimines from Isocyanides and Synthetic Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Mersilongine

Mathias Mamboury

In the first chapter of this thesis, the development of two new reactions for the synthesis of vinyl ketenimines and alpha-oxo-ketenimines from isocyanides is presented. These palladium-catalyzed transformations both feature an isocyanide insertion / beta- ...

EPFL2019

Steam Gasification of Carbonaceous Feedstocks via a 1.5 kWth Hybrid Solar/Autothermal Reactor

Sophia Haussener, Iacopo Guscetti

A continuous method of steam gasification through hybridization of a solar reactor with an autothermal gasification process is proposed and tested. The ability to autothermally gasify a carbonaceous feedstock within a solar reactor enables round-the-clock ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Copper-catalyzed remote C(sp3)–H azidation and oxidative trifluoromethylation of benzohydrazides

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Xu Bao

The Hofmann-Löffler-Freytag (HLF) reaction is a prototypical example of radical-based remote functionalization of unactivated C(sp3)–H bond. While 1,5-hydrogen atom transfer (1,5-HAT) of the amidyl radical is thermodynamically favorable and is well-establi ...

Springer2019

Mechanism and Kinetics of Propane Dehydrogenation and Cracking over Ga/H-MFI Prepared via Vapor-Phase Exchange of H-MFI with GaCI3

Matthieu Bondil

In this study, the mechanism and kinetics of C3H8 dehydrogenation and cracking are examined over Ga/H-MFI catalysts prepared via vapor-phase exchange of H-MFI with GaCl3. The present study demonstrates that GaH cations are the active centers for C3H8 ...

2019

Auger-induced charge migration

Christoph Bostedt

Novel perspectives of controlling molecular systems have recently arisen from the possibility of generating attosecond pulses in the ultraviolet regime and tailoring electron dynamics in its natural time scale. The cornerstone mechanism is the so-called ch ...

2018

Distributed photothermal measurements of gas presence along holey optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Kenny Hey Tow

Chirped-pulse phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry has shown a remarkable performance when applied to dynamic measurements of strain and temperature, recently reaching ranges of several kilometers while interrogating the fiber at acoustic freq ...

SPIE2017

Synthesis of Vinyl Isocyanides and Development of a Convertible Isonitrile

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Martina Spallarossa

The reaction of isocyanomethylenetriphenylphosphorane, generated in situ from the corresponding phosphonium salt, with a diverse set of aldehydes afforded vinyl isocyanides in good to high yields. Excellent E-selectivity was observed for aliphatic aldehyde ...

American Chemical Society2016

Acetylene Oligomerization over Pd Nanoparticles with Controlled Shape: A Parahydrogen-Induced Polarization Study

Lioubov Kiwi, Rocio Micaela Crespo Quesada

Substantial signal enhancements achieved by using parahydrogen in catalytic hydrogenations are powerful tools for mechanistic studies of chemical reactions involving molecular H-2. Potentially, this technique can be extended to other reaction classes, prov ...

American Chemical Society2016

Copper-Catalyzed Oxy-Alkynylation of Diazo Compounds with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

Jérôme Waser, Durga Prasada Rao Hari

Alkynes have found widespread applications in synthetic chemistry, biology, and materials sciences. In recent years, methods based on electrophilic alkynylation with hypervalent iodine reagents have made acetylene synthesis more flexible and efficient, but ...

American Chemical Society2016

Shape-Dependence of Pd Nanocrystal Carburization during Acetylene Hydrogenation

Lioubov Kiwi, Rocio Micaela Crespo Quesada, Fernando Cardenas Lizana

This interdisciplinary work combines the use of shape- and size-defined Pd nanocrystals (cubes of 10 and 18 nm, and octahedra of 37 nm) with in situ techniques and DFT calculations to unravel the dynamic phenomena with respect to Pd reconstruction taking p ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Palladium-Catalyzed Vicinal Amino Alcohols Synthesis from Allyl Amines by In Situ Tether Formation and Carboetherification

Jérôme Waser, Ugo Jonathan Orcel

Vicinal amino alcohols are important structural motifs of bioactive compounds. Reported herein is an efficient method for their synthesis based on the palladium-catalyzed oxy-alkynylation, oxy-arylation, or oxy-vinylation of allylic amines. High regio- and ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Intramolecular palladium-catalyzed alkene carboalkynylation

Jérôme Waser, Stefano Nicolai, Peter Swallow

Carbocycles are essential building blocks for the synthesis of natural and synthetic bioactive compounds. Herein, we report the first example of palladium-catalyzed intramolecular carboalkynylation of non-activated olefins. Using activated carbonyl compoun ...

Elsevier2015

Acid-free regioselective aminocarbonylation of alkenes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Ning Yan, Huizhen Liu

An efficient method for the synthesis of N-aryl monosubstituted carboxamides via the Pd-catalyzed carbonylation of alkenes with CO and amines is described. Mechanistic insights for this highly selective reaction are provided. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Size and Shape-controlled Pd Nanocrystals on ZnO and SiO2: When the Nature of the Support Determines the Active Phase

Lioubov Kiwi, Rocio Micaela Crespo Quesada

The structure sensitivity of acetylene hydrogenation was studied over size-controlled cubic and octahedral Pd nanocrystals (NCs) supported on ZnO and SiO2. Acetylene hydrogenation was found to be structure sensitive [with Pd(111) in octahedra being more ac ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2014

Amide bond formation via C(sp(3))-H bond functionalization and CO insertion

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Ning Yan, Huizhen Liu

An efficient method for the synthesis of amides via Pd-catalyzed oxidative carbonylation of C(sp(3))-H bonds with CO and amines is described. The route efficiently provides substituted phenyl amides from alkanes. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014