Publications related to Complexation associated rearrangement of iminobiphosphines to diphosphinoamines

Resonant Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of a Single-Molecule Kondo System

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) under ultrahigh vacuum and cryogenic conditions enables exploration of the relations between the adsorption geometry, electronic state, and vibrational fingerprints of individual molecules. TERS capability of reflecti ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Majed Chergui

Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense, coherent and tunable. They are enabling a broad range of nonlinear optical and s ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Insights on chemical and physical chloride binding in blended cement pastes

Karen Scrivener, Julien Nicolas Gonthier, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, William Wilson

This study investigates chloride binding in blended cement pastes exposed to 0.5 M NaCl solutions (with and without pH adjustment) using X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy image analysis (edxia). The aim is to better understand the ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Design and fabrication of an aerosol collector for infrared spectroscopy analysis

Nikunj Dudani

Particulate matter (PM) pollution causes adverse health effects and millions of deaths each year. PM or aerosol, is difficult to characterize because of its wide range of particle sizes, constituents (various organic and inorganic compounds), concentration ...

EPFL2021

Structural and analytical identifications of biomolecules by cold ion spectroscopy of non-covalent complexes

Erik Saparbayev

Non-covalent interactions are ubiquitous in nature. The diversity and functionality of these interactions are employed by nature as a universal tool for building the molecular mechanism of life. Although weak, these interactions play a key role in both for ...

EPFL2021

In situ nanoscale studies of copper-based catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction

Karla Banjac

The urgency of climate change demands the simultaneous removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and the transition to renewable energy sources. This aim is realizable through electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR), which is a promising ro ...

EPFL2021

A gas phase approach for glycan analysis: Combining ultrahigh-resolution ion mobility spectrometry with cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy

Ahmed Ben Faleh

The last decades have been punctuated by the development of revolutionary analytical technologies that have enabled the analysis of biomolecular structures and unraveled the roles they play in biological systems. However, certain classes of biomolecules re ...

EPFL2021

Solid-state NMR spectroscopy

David Lyndon Emsley

Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an atomic-level method to determine the chemical structure, 3D structure and dynamics of solids and semi-solids. This Primer summarizes the basic principles of NMR spectroscopy as applied to the ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

One-dimensional facile growth of MAPbI(3) perovskite micro-rods

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Zubair Ahmad

One-dimensional microrods (4-5 mm) of PbI2 and CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI(3)) with unique structural and morphological properties have been grown at room temperature. X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of both types of micro-rods exhibit a hexagonal system (P3m1(164) ...

2019

Production and characterization of stabilized lignin

Masoud Talebi Amiri

Lignocellulosic biomass is a sustainable source of renewable carbon, and it is the most abundant form of terrestrial biomass. The three main constituents of lignocellulosic biomass are cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. The monomers from these biopolyme ...

EPFL2019

Insertion of germanium atoms in high- nuclearity rhodium carbonyl compounds: synthesis, characterization and preliminary biological activity of the heterometallic [ Rh13Ge( CO) 25] 3-, [ Rh14Ge2( CO) 30] 2-and [ Rh12Ge( CO) 27] 4-clusters+

Paul Joseph Dyson, Silvia Ruggieri

The reaction of the Rh-7(CO)(16) cluster anion with Ge2+ salts, in different stoichiometric ratios and under different atmospheres, leads to the formation of new heterometallic Rh-Ge clusters, representing the first known examples of Rh carbonyl comp ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2018

(eta(6)-Arene) ruthenium complexes with P-coordinated phosphinoferrocene amides bearing extended polar substituents at the amide nitrogen: Synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel

Heterobimetallic Ru-Fe complexes of the general formula [(eta(6)-p-cymene) RuCl2(Ph(2)PfcCONHCH(2)CH(2-)COY-kappa P)], where Y = Me, NH2, NHEt, NHPh, and NMe2, and fc = ferrocene-1,1'-diyl, were synthesized from p-cymene ruthenium dichloride dimer and phos ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Preparation of titania covered multi-walled carbon nanotube thin films

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Klara Hernadi, Endre Horvath

The aim of this work was to investigate the effects of relative humidity on the formation of titania layers on the surface of multi-walled carbon nanotubes under regulated conditions in a sealed system. Reactive precursor compounds such as titanium (IV) ox ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2015

Antiproliferative activities of trithiolato-bridged dinuclear arene osmium complexes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Benjamin Samuel Murray

Trithiolato-bridged arene osmium complexes of the general formula (p-cymene)(2)Os-2(mu-SR)(3) (R = C6H5, 1; C6H4-p-Me, 2; C6H4-p-OMe, 3; C6H4-p-Pr-i, 4; C6H4-p-But, 5; CH2C6H5, 6; CH2CH2C6H5, 7; CH2C6H4-p-Bu-t, [8](+ ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Biomineralization in Newly Settled Recruits of the Scleractinian Coral Pocillopora damicornis

Anders Meibom, Melany Melissa Gilis, Isabelle Domart-Coulon, Jaroslaw Hubert Stolarski

Calcium carbonate biomineralization of scleractinian coral recruits is fundamental to the construction of reefs and their survival under stress from global and local environmental change. Establishing a baseline for how normal, healthy coral recruits initi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Synthesis and structural elucidation of bioactive triorganotin (IV) derivatives of sodium deoxycholate

Rosario Scopelliti

Trimethyl (1), tributyl (2), and triphenyl tin (3) derivatives of sodium (R)-4-((3R, 5R, 8R, 9S, 10S, 12S, 13R, 14S, 17R)-3,12-dihydroxy-10,13-dimethyl-hexadecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a] phenanthren-17-yl)pentanoate (sodium deoxycholate) were synthesized by re ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

How Strong Is Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquids? Combined X-ray Crystallographic, Infrared/Raman Spectroscopic, and Density Functional Theory Study

Gabor Laurenczy, Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan, Emilia Paunescu

Hydrogen bonding in ionic liquids based on the 1-(2'-hydroxylethyl)-3-methylimidazolium cation (C(2)OHmim) and various anions (A) of differing H-bond acceptor strength, viz. hexafluorophosphate PF6, tetrafluoroborate BF4, bis-(trifluoro ...

American Chemical Society2013

The tautomeric structures of 3(5),3 '(5 ')-azopyrazole [(E)-1,2-di(1H-pyrazol-3(5)-yl)diazene)]: The combined use of NMR and electronic spectroscopies with DFT calculations

Pablo Lopez Tarifa

An azo derivative of 1H-pyrazole has been chosen to study the information obtained from different techniques for determining the structure of a non-crystalline compound in the solid-state and in solution. Syn-anti isomerism of the azo group, prototropic ta ...

2012

Rationalization of Solvation and Stabilization of Palladium Nanoparticles in Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids by DFT and Vibrational Spectroscopy

Paul Joseph Dyson, Ning Yan, Xiao Yuan

A combined DFT/vibrational spectroscopy approach is used to determine the interactions of the 1,3-dimethylimidazolium ([Mmim]+) and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ([Emim]+) cations and [BF4]- anions with each other in the liquid state and with Pd nanoparticle ...

2012

Cold Ion Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules in the Gas Phase

Natalia Nagornova

The three-dimensional (3D) structures of proteins and peptides in vivo largely determine their biological functions. In vitro these native structures and their heterogeneity reflect a subtle balance between noncovalent intramolecular interactions and those ...

EPFL2011