Synergic heterodinuclear catalysts for the ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) of epoxides, carbon dioxide, and anhydrides

WT Diment, W Lindeboom, F Fiorentini… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The development of sustainable plastic materials is an essential target of
chemistry in the 21st century. Key objectives toward this goal include utilizing sustainable …

Oriented internal electrostatic fields: an emerging design element in coordination chemistry and catalysis

AB Weberg, RP Murphy, NC Tomson - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The power of oriented electrostatic fields (ESFs) to influence chemical bonding and reactivity
is a phenomenon of rapidly growing interest. The presence of strong ESFs has recently …

Switching Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Pathways through Electronic Tuning of Copper Porphyrins

X Peng, M Zhang, H Qin, J Han, Y Xu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The electronic structure of metal complexes plays key roles in determining their catalytic
features. However, controlling electronic structures to regulate reaction mechanisms is of …

Controlling Hydrogen Evolution and CO2 Reduction at Transition Metal Hydrides

AD Cypcar, JY Yang - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Fuel-forming reactions such as the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and CO2
reduction (CO2R) are vital to transitioning to a carbon-neutral economy. The equivalent …

Surface Reconstruction and Passivation of BiVO4 Photoanodes Depending on the “Structure Breaker” Cs+

C Tao, Y Jiang, Y Ding, B Jia, R Liu, P Li, W Yang… - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Monoclinic BiVO4 is one of the most promising photoanode materials for solar water
splitting. The photoelectrochemical performance of a BiVO4 photoanode could be …

Hydrophilic tailoring of s-PEEK polyelectrolyte with CeMnOx bimetal oxide to sustain oxidative dilemma and improve PEMFC performance

J Sharma, P Upadhyay, S Mishra… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Herein, we propose a strategy to overcome the oxidative durability dilemma and conductivity
associated setbacks in pristine sulfonated poly (ether ether ketone)(s-PEEK) polyelectrolyte …

Automated variable electric-field DFT application for evaluation of optimally oriented electric fields on chemical reactivity

DJ Hanaway, CR Kennedy - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent theoretical work and experiments at molecular junctions have provided a strong
conceptualization for the effects of oriented electric fields (OEFs) on organic reactions …

Structural distortion by alkali metal cations modulates the redox and electronic properties of Ce 3+ imidophosphorane complexes

AC Boggiano, CM Studvick, A Steiner, J Bacsa… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of Ce3+ complexes with counter cations ranging from Li to Cs are presented. Cyclic
voltammetry data indicate a significant dependence of the oxidation potential on the alkali …

Photodriven Ammonia Synthesis from Manganese Nitrides: Photophysics and Mechanistic Investigations

GB Panetti, J Kim, MS Myong, MJ Bird… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ammonia synthesis from N, N, O, O-supported manganese (V) nitrides and 9, 10-
dihydroacridine using proton-coupled electron transfer and visible light irradiation in the …

Pyrolysis mechanism law of β-O-4 lignin dimer model compounds: a density functional theory study

H Yu, S Wang, Y Sun, W Zhang, R Li, X Kang - Industrial Crops and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignin is the second abundant natural renewable after cellulose. Pyrolysis is usually
transformed lignin into high value-added platform compounds. In order to fully utilized lignin …