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Gas/Surface reactions probed by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy

In my thesis, I present an investigation of the dissociation reactions of gas phase molecules on single crystal metal surfaces studied by a molecular beam in combination with Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy (RAIRS). Two gas/surface systems were ...

EPFL2023

Stabilizing Unusual Oxidation States of Lanthanides in Molecular Complexes: Synthesis, Properties, and Reactivity

Aurélien René Willauer

The chemistry of divalent lanthanides has generated increasing interest in the past years due to their redox properties and unique reaction pathways. Notably, molecular complexes of low-valent lanthanides have been shown to be suitable one-electron reducta ...

EPFL2022

Active anaerobic methane oxidation and sulfur disproportionation in the deep terrestrial subsurface

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Manon Frutschi, Emma Bell, Chen Qian

Microbial life is widespread in the terrestrial subsurface and present down to several kilometers depth, but the energy sources that fuel metabolism in deep oligotrophic and anoxic environments remain unclear. In the deep crystalline bedrock of the Fennosc ...

2022

Carbon Dioxide Reduction by Multimetallic Uranium(IV) Complexes Supported by Redox-Active Schiff Base Ligands

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Marta Falcone, Nadir Jori

The synthesis, structure, and reactivity with CO2 and CS2 of new U(IV) complexes with a redox-active Schiff base are reported. The reaction of UI3 with the heptadentate Schiff base ligand 2,2',2 ''-tris(salicylideneimino)-triethylamine (trensal) did not le ...

2020

Mechanism of Oxygen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobalt Oxyhydroxide: Cobalt Superoxide Species as a Key Intermediate and Dioxygen Release as a Rate-Determining Step

Xile Hu, Seunghwa Lee, Aliki Moysiadou

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the performance-limiting half reaction of water splitting, which can be used to produce hydrogen fuel using renewable energies. Whereas a number of transition metal oxides and oxyhydroxides have been developed as prom ...

2020

Carbon dioxide reduction by lanthanide(iii) complexes supported by redox-active Schiff base ligands

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Davide Toniolo, Nadir Jori

Here we have explored the ability of Schiff bases to act as electron reservoirs and to enable the multi-electron reduction of small molecules by lanthanide complexes. We report the reductive chemistry of the Ln(iii) complexes of the tripodal heptadentate S ...

2020

Contaminant loading and competitive access of Pb, Zn and Mn(III) to vacancy sites in biogenic MnO2

Louise Helene Soegaard Jensen, Jasquelin Peña

The scavenging properties of MnO2 are largely attributed to sorption on layer vacancy sites. However, co-occurrence of Mn(II, III) with MnO2 can change mineral reactivity by modifying its Mn(III) content or number of free vacancy sites. These processes are ...

2018

Equilibria and Speciation of Chloramines, Bromamines, and Bromochloramines in Water

Jeremy Samuel Arey, Daniela Trogolo

The stabilities and speciation of the halamines in water are difficult to characterize experimentally. We provide theoretical estimates of aqueous standard free energies of formation for inorganic chloramines, bromamines, and bromochloramines, based on hig ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

FeOx magnetization enhancing E-coli inactivation by orders of magnitude on Ag-TiO2 nanotubes under sunlight

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Arnaud Magrez, Stefanos Giannakis, Ivica Zivkovic, Marco Mangayayam

Drastic bacterial enhancement was observed when the Ag(3%)-TiO2 nanotubes were modified with FeOx (3%) magnetic oxide. On bare TiO2- nanotubes a reduction of 0.21og(10)CFU was observed within one hour under simulated low intensity solar light. Under simila ...

Elsevier2017

Carbon Dioxide to Methanol: The Aqueous Catalytic Way at Room Temperature

Gabor Laurenczy, Katerina Stefania Sordakis

Carbon dioxide may constitute a source of chemicals and fuels if efficient and renewable processes are developed that directly utilize it as feedstock. Two of its reduction products are formic acid and methanol, which have also been proposed as liquid orga ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Carbon dioxide for hydrogen storage via formic acid derivatives and methanol

Katerina Stefania Sordakis

Securing our energy future while minimizing the associated environmental impacts is a challenging endeavor and the fundamental aspect of sustainable development. The choice of energy resource and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, primarily carbon ...

EPFL2016

The Molecular Mechanism of the Catalase-like Activity in Horseradish Peroxidase

Ursula Röthlisberger, Pablo Campomanes Ramos

Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) is one of the most relevant peroxidase enzymes, used extensively in immunochemistry and biocatalysis applications. Unlike the closely related catalase enzymes, it exhibits a low activity to disproportionate hydrogen peroxide (H ...

2015

CS2 activation at uranium(III) siloxide ate complexes: the effect of a Lewis acidic site

Marinella Mazzanti, Julie Renée Michelle Andrez

Multimetallic cooperative binding of heteroallenes provides an attractive route to their activation, but the reduction of CS2 at heterobimetallic sites, associating an electron-rich metal with a main group Lewis acid has not been explored. Here we show tha ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Highly Enantioselective Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Carbonyl Carboacylations Initiated by C-C Bond Activation

Nicolai Cramer, Laetitia Marie Mélanie Souillart

The lactone motif is ubiquitous in natural products and pharmaceuticals. The Tishchenko disproportionation of two aldehydes, a carbonyl hydroacylation, is an efficient and atom-economic access to lactones. However, these reaction types are limited to the t ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Chlorination of bromide-containing waters: Enhanced bromate formation in the presence of synthetic metal oxides and deposits formed in drinking water distribution systems

Urs von Gunten, Chao Liu

Bromate formation from the reaction between chlorine and bromide in homogeneous solution is a slow process. The present study investigated metal oxides enhanced bromate formation during chlorination of bromide-containing waters. Selected metal oxides enhan ...

Elsevier2013

Multiscale Spatial Organization of RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli

Seamus John Holden

Nucleic acid synthesis is spatially organized in many organisms. In bacteria, however, the spatial distribution of transcription remains obscure, owing largely to the diffraction limit of conventional light microscopy (200-300 nm). Here, we use photoactiva ...

Cell Press2013

Reduced Fronto-Temporal and Limbic Connectivity in the 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Vulnerability Markers for Developing Schizophrenia?

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Marie Schaer, Leila Cammoun

The 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is a widely recognized genetic model allowing the study of neuroanatomicalvbiomarkers that underlie the risk for developing schizophrenia. Recent advances in magnetic resonance image analysesvenable the examination o ...

Public Library of Science2013

Electrocatalysis at liquid/liquid interfaces

Raheleh Partovi Nia

This thesis is devoted to the study of oxygen reduction reaction catalysed by porphyrins at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES). Electrochemical and spectrophotometric techniques are introduced to these interfaces in order to ...

EPFL2010

Biological reduction of chlorinated solvents: Batch-scale geochemical modeling

David Andrew Barry, Clare Robinson

Simulation of biodegradation of chlorinated solvents in dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) source zones requires a model that accounts for the complexity of processes involved and that is consistent with available laboratory studies. This paper describ ...

Elsevier2010