Publications by Till Marian Schertenleib

Anisotropic node distortions in amorphous MOFs: Low-valent Zr sites as catalytic hotspots

Emad Oveisi, Berend Smit, Wendy Lee Queen, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jian Hao, Beatriz Bueno Mouriño, Timo Markus Oskar Felder

We introduce a new approach to defect engineering in Zr-based metal-organic frameworks (Zr-MOFs), aiming to reduce Zr site valency while preserving high node connectivity. Using a rapid heat treatment (RHT) in humid air, oxygen vacancies (O-vacancies) were ...

Elsevier BV2025

Testing Protocols for Obtaining Reliable Pair Distribution Functions from Laboratory X‐Ray Sources Using PDFgetX3

Wendy Lee Queen, Till Marian Schertenleib

Herein, data acquisition protocols are explored and data reduction protocols are improved using PDFgetX3 to obtain reliable data for atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis from a laboratory‐based Mo K α X‐ray source. A variable counting scheme is ...

Wiley2025

Immobilizing amine species in a Cr-MOF for enhanced selectivity in CO2 cycloaddition reactions

Jocelyn Richard Roth, Wendy Lee Queen, Anita Justin, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jordi Espin Marti

After grafting polyalkylamine species onto the ligand within a Cr 3+ -MOF, the material was tested for catalyzing cycloaddition reactions between CO 2 and 1,2-epoxybutane (EB). ...

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

A local structure perspective on metal-organic frameworks

Till Marian Schertenleib

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), or coordination polymers (CPs), are networks of organic ligands and metal nodes that form ordered or disordered structures. By selecting appropriate building blocks, CPs with tailored pore shapes, dimensions, and surface ch ...

EPFL2025

A post-synthetic modification strategy for enhancing Pt adsorption efficiency in MOF/polymer composites

Mounir Driss Mensi, Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Till Marian Schertenleib

Growing polymers inside porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can allow incoming guests to access the backbone of otherwise non-porous polymers, boosting the number and/or strength of available adsorption sites inside the porous support. In the present wo ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Post-Synthetic Covalent Grafting of Amines to NH2-MOF for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture

Mounir Driss Mensi, Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov, Anita Justin, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Till Marian Schertenleib, Miriam Jasmin Pougin, Jordi Espin Marti

Herein, a post-synthetic modification strategy is used to covalently graft polyamines, including ethylenediamine (ED), diethylenetriamine (DETA), tris(2-aminoethyl)amine (TAEA), and polyethyleneimine (PEI) to the amino-ligand inside of a Cr-MOF, NH2-Cr-BDC ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Post-Synthetic Modification of a MOF via Continuous Flow Methods for Gold E-Waste Recycling

Jocelyn Richard Roth, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Till Marian Schertenleib, Timo Markus Oskar Felder

This work represents a pioneering effort in utilizing continuous flow methods for the post-synthetic modification of a nanoporous metal-organic framework (Fe-BTC or MIL-100(Fe)) with short-chain redox-active oligomers (poly-p-phenylenediamine, PpPDA). The ...

2024

Uranium(IV) and Thorium(IV) Coordination Polymers Based on Tritopic Carboxylic Acids

Rosario Scopelliti, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Marinella Mazzanti, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Aurélien René Willauer, Wendy Lee Queen, Till Marian Schertenleib

Rigidtritopic linkers of different sizes were used to buildporous U-(IV) and Th-(IV) 3D frameworks. The charge of the polymerscould be tuned by reaction conditions such as the temperature, pH,solvent, ligand, or metal precursor, yielding a series of neutra ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

A Simple, Transition Metal Catalyst-Free Method for the Design of Complex Organic Building Blocks Used to Construct Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks

Jocelyn Richard Roth, Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov, Anita Justin, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jordi Espin Marti, Sophia Alessandra Pache, Nazanin Taheri

The design of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) having large pore sizes and volumes often requires the use of complex organic ligands, currently synthesized using costly and time-consuming palladium-catalyzed coupling chemistry. Thus, in the present work, a ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

3D vs. turbostratic: controlling metal-organic framework dimensionality via N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry

Mounir Driss Mensi, Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Shuliang Yang, Anita Justin, Till Marian Schertenleib

Using azolium-based ligands for the construction of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is a viable strategy to immobilize catalytically active N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) or NHC-derived species inside MOF pores. Thus, in the present work, a novel copper MOF ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Hybridization of Synthetic Humins with a Metal-Organic Framework for Precious Metal Recovery and Reuse

Wendy Lee Queen, Claudia Esther Avalos, Olga Trukhina, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jordi Espin Marti

The number of synthetic strategies used to functionalize MOFs with polymers is rapidly growing; this stems from the knowledge that non-native polymeric guests can significantly boost MOF performance in a number of desirable applications. The current work p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021