Recent progress and prospects in catalytic water treatment

VI Parvulescu, F Epron, H Garcia, P Granger - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Presently, conventional technologies in water treatment are not efficient enough to
completely mineralize refractory water contaminants. In this context, the implementation of …

Reactions in water involving the “On‐Water” mechanism

T Kitanosono, S Kobayashi - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ever‐evolving catalyst advances in synthetic protocols using water as a reaction medium
have enriched the understanding of sustainable organic chemistry. Because conventional …

Facilitating two-electron oxygen reduction with pyrrolic nitrogen sites for electrochemical hydrogen peroxide production

W Peng, J Liu, X Liu, L Wang, L Yin, H Tan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) production via the two-electron oxygen reduction
reaction is a promising alternative to the energy-intensive and high-pollution anthraquinone …

Theoretical advances in understanding and designing the active sites for hydrogen evolution reaction

F Sun, Q Tang, D Jiang - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
As a fundamental step of water splitting and a stepping stone toward exploring other
multielectron transfer processes, the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is …

Origins of complex solvent effects on chemical reactivity and computational tools to investigate them: a review

JJ Varghese, SH Mushrif - Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Solvents are crucial components in specialty chemical and pharmaceutical industries and in
electrochemical and photoelectrochemical processes, and are increasingly being used in …

Solvation effects on DFT predictions of ORR activity on metal surfaces

Q Zhang, A Asthagiri - Catalysis Today, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a comparison study between the implicit and explicit solvation approach for
density functional theory (DFT) predictions of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity …

Liquid-phase modeling in heterogeneous catalysis

M Saleheen, A Heyden - ACS Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
The notion that solvents can affect the chemical reactivity has been prevalent in the
homogeneous catalysis community, going back as far as 1863. 1 Remarkable changes in …

Mechanism and Active Species in NH3 Dehydrogenation under an Electrochemical Environment: An Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study

K Yang, J Liu, B Yang - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
The electrochemical ammonia oxidation reaction (AOR) has attracted considerable attention
in the past decades. However, the AOR mechanism on the electrode surface is still …

Substantial improvement of electrocatalytic predictions by systematic assessment of solvent effects on adsorption energies

A Rendón-Calle, S Builes, F Calle-Vallejo - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrocatalytic activities are largely determined by the interplay of adsorbates with
substrates and solvents. Although capturing the interactions of those three components is …

Advances and challenges in modeling solvated reaction mechanisms for renewable fuels and chemicals

Y Basdogan, AM Maldonado… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a critical overview of progress and challenges in computationally modeling
multistep reaction mechanisms relevant for catalysis and electrocatalysis. We first discuss …