The Role of In Situ/Operando IR Spectroscopy in Unraveling Adsorbate-Induced Structural Changes in Heterogeneous Catalysis

E Groppo, S Rojas-Buzo, S Bordiga - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysts undergo thermal-and/or adsorbate-induced dynamic changes
under reaction conditions, which consequently modify their catalytic behavior. Hence, it is …

Probing zeolites by vibrational spectroscopies

S Bordiga, C Lamberti, F Bonino, A Travert… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This review addresses the most relevant aspects of vibrational spectroscopies (IR, Raman
and INS) applied to zeolites and zeotype materials. Surface Brønsted and Lewis acidity and …

Au Nanoparticles Supported on BiVO4: Effective Inorganic Photocatalysts for H2O2 Production from Water and O2 under Visible Light

H Hirakawa, S Shiota, Y Shiraishi, H Sakamoto… - Acs …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The design of a safe and sustainable process for the synthesis of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)
is a very important subject from the viewpoint of green chemistry. Photocatalytic H2O2 …

Low-temperature methane combustion over Pd/H-ZSM-5: active Pd sites with specific electronic properties modulated by acidic sites of H-ZSM-5

Y Lou, J Ma, W Hu, Q Dai, L Wang, W Zhan, Y Guo… - Acs …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Pd/H-ZSM-5 catalysts could completely catalyze CH4 to CO2 at as low as 320° C, while
there is no detectable catalytic activity for pure H-ZSM-5 at 320° C and only a conversion of …

Tetrahydroxydiboron-mediated palladium-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation and deuteriation of alkenes and alkynes using water as the stoichiometric H or D atom …

SP Cummings, TN Le, GE Fernandez… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
There are few examples of catalytic transfer hydrogenations of simple alkenes and alkynes
that use water as a stoichiometric H or D atom donor. We have found that diboron reagents …

Materials characterization by synchrotron x-ray microprobes and nanoprobes

L Mino, E Borfecchia, J Segura-Ruiz, C Giannini… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
In recent years synchrotron x-ray microprobes and nanoprobes have emerged as key
characterization tools with a remarkable impact for different scientific fields including solid …

In situ formation of hydrides and carbides in palladium catalyst: when XANES is better than EXAFS and XRD

AL Bugaev, AA Guda, A Lazzarini, KA Lomachenko… - Catalysis Today, 2017 - Elsevier
In a number of hydrogenation reactions, palladium nanoparticles may undergo a transition
to the hydride or the carbide phase, which affects the catalytic properties. In the current work …

Tandem catalysis of amines using porous graphene oxide

C Su, R Tandiana, J Balapanuru, W Tang… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Porous graphene oxide can be used as a metal-free catalyst in the presence of air for
oxidative coupling of primary amines. Herein, we explore a GO-catalyzed carbon–carbon …

A comprehensive approach to investigate the structural and surface properties of activated carbons and related Pd-based catalysts

A Lazzarini, A Piovano, R Pellegrini… - Catalysis Science & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Activated carbons are widely used as supports for industrial catalysts based on metal
nanoparticles. The catalytic performance of carbon-supported catalysts is strongly …

Probing the evolution of palladium species in Pd@ MOF catalysts during the heck coupling reaction: an operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy study

N Yuan, V Pascanu, Z Huang, A Valiente… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The mechanism of the Heck C–C coupling reaction catalyzed by Pd@ MOFs has been
investigated using operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and powder X-ray …