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

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

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

Reactions of hypobromous acid with dimethyl selenide, dimethyl diselenide and other organic selenium compounds: kinetics and product formation

Urs von Gunten

Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient for many living organisms particularly due to its unique redox properties. We recently found that the sulfur (S) analog for dimethyl selenide (DMSe), i.e. dimethyl sulfide (DMS), reacts fast with the marine oxida ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Spacer Cations for the Incorporation in Layered Perovskites

Simon Nussbaum

Layered hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite (LHOIP) materials are an emerging class of semiconductors endorsed as a more stable alternative compared to the more widely investigated 3D hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites (HOIP). Consisting of altern ...

EPFL2023

Chlorination of amides: Kinetics and mechanisms of formation of N-chloramides and their reactions with phenolic compounds

Urs von Gunten, Tianqi Zhang

Amides are common constituents in natural organic matter and synthetic chemicals. In this study, we investi-gated kinetics and mechanisms of the reactions of chlorine with seven amides, including acetamide, N-meth-ylformamide, N-methylacetamide, benzamide, ...

2023

Organic Chemistry and Synthesis Rely More and More upon Catalysts

Pierre Vogel

A few months before the COVID-19 pandemic, Pierre Vogel and Kendall N. Houk published with a new textbook Wiley-VCH, "Organic Chemistry: Theory, Reactivity, and Mechanisms in Modern Synthesis", with a foreword from the late Roberts H. Grubbs. The book demo ...

MDPI2022

Isolation, Characterisation and Reactivity of N-Heterocyclic Diazoolefins

Paul Varava

Examples for applications of nitrous oxide in organic synthesis remain rare up until today. First mayor contributions of our group were published in 2012, when nitrous oxide was successfully captured by N-heterocyclic carbenes. Subsequent studies investiga ...

EPFL2022

Diversifying Databases of Metal Organic Frameworks for High-Throughput Computational Screening

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Sauradeep Majumdar

By combining metal nodes and organic linkers, an infinite number of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) can be designed in silico. Therefore, when making new databases of such hypothetical MOFs, we need to ensure that they not only contribute toward the growth ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Exploring Synthetic Strategies for Nanocrystal/Reticular Framework Hybrids and Their Potential as CO2 Reduction Electrocatalysts

Yannick Thomas Guntern

The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) into valuable chemicals has the potential to realize a carbon-neutral energy cycle. Developing catalysts that can achieve high selectivity towards one of the possible reduction products is one of the bigge ...

EPFL2021

Energy-based descriptors for photo-catalytically active metal–organic framework discovery

Ivano Tavernelli, Gloria Capano, Berend Smit, Senja Dominique Barthel, Maria Fumanal Quintana

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) consist of metal nodes that are connected by organic linkers. They are thus highly chemically tunable materials given the broad range of potential linkers and nodes that can be chosen for their synthesis. Their tunability ha ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Understanding the diversity of the metal-organic framework ecosystem

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Yongjin Lee, Daniele Ongari, Peter George Boyd, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Millions of distinct metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be made by combining metal nodes and organic linkers. At present, over 90,000 MOFs have been synthesized and over 500,000 predicted. This raises the question whether a new experimental or predicted s ...

Nature Research2020

Advancing computational and data-driven methods for the design and discovery of nanoporous materials

Seyedmohamad Moosavi

Metal-organic framework (MOFs) and related nanoporous materials have emerged as promising candidates for a variety of applications, such as gas separation and storage, catalysis, sensing, etc. Their building block structure allows us to generate a huge num ...

EPFL2020

Big-Data Science in Porous Materials: Materials Genomics and Machine Learning

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Kevin Maik Jablonka

By combining metal nodes with organic linkers we can potentially synthesize millions of possible metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). The fact that we have so many materials opens many exciting avenues but also create new challenges. We simply have too many ma ...

2020

Characterization of metal organic frameworks of interest for gas adsorption/separation applications

Mehrdad Asgari

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous materials that are applicable in many energy and environmentally relevant areas, due to their unique features including unprecedented internal surface areas and easy chemical tunability. Gas separation ...

EPFL2020

Cross-linkable polymer, hydrogel, and method of preparation thereof

Dominique Pioletti, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Christophe Moser, Céline Samira Wyss, Peyman Karami

The invention relates to a cross-linkable polymer comprising a base polymer comprising functional groups at least some of which have been reacted with a first organic molecule comprising a cross-linkable unit and with a second organic molecule capable of b ...

2020

Taking lanthanides out of isolation: tuning the optical properties of metal-organic frameworks

Kevin Sivula, Gloria Capano, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Berend Smit, Samantha Lynn Anderson, Kyriakos Stylianou, Davide Tiana, Andrzej Gladysiak, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Stavroula Kampouri, Maria Fumanal Quintana

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are increasingly used in applications that rely on the optical and electronic properties of these materials. These applications require a fundamental understanding on how the structure of these materials, and in particular t ...

2020

Oxidative Fluorination of Cyclopropylamides through Organic Photoredox Catalysis

Jérôme Waser, Mingming Wang

We report an oxidative ring-opening strategy to transform cyclopropylamides and cyclobutylamides into fluorinated imines. The imines can be isolated in their more stable hemiaminal form, with the fluorine atom installed selectively at the gamma or delta po ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Molecular Engineering of Electrode Surfaces for Electrocatalysis

Patrick Eduard Alexa

Electrocatalysts play an important part on the route towards environmental friendly energy sources. They support modern technologies like fuel cells to move further away from the utilization of fossil fuels and the resulting CO2 emission into our atmospher ...

EPFL2020

Rapid dark aging of biomass burning as an overlooked source of oxidized organic aerosol

Athanasios Nenes, Spyros Pandis

Oxidized organic aerosol (OOA) is a major component of ambient particulate matter, substantially impacting climate, human health, and ecosystems. OOA is readily produced in the presence of sunlight, and requires days of photooxidation to reach the levels o ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Molecular engineering of functional materials for optoelectronic applications

Nikita Drigo

Organic functional materials are indispensable components for the last generation of light-energy conversion devices. Photo- and electroactive small organic molecules constitute thin active (emitting, transporting, blocking, injecting etc.) layers of organ ...

EPFL2020

Carbon fluxes and productivity regimes in Alpine streams

Marta Boix Canadell

High-altitude catchments have a major role in the transport of organic matter to streams due to the storage of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in soils and glacier ice and the subsequent mobilization during the melting processes. Yet, stream function goes b ...

EPFL2020