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In situ probes into the structural changes and active state evolution of a highly selective iron-based CO2 reduction photocatalyst Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Feysal M. Ali, Abdelaziz Gouda, Paul N. Duchesne, Mohamad Hmadeh, Paul G. O’Brien, Abhinav Mohan, Mireille Ghoussoub, Athanasios A. Tountas, Hussameldin Ibrahim, Doug D. Perovic, Geoffrey A. Ozin
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Novel mechanism of Fe4+/Ni3+ synergistic effect via exchange energy gain for boosting water oxidation Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Yalei Fan, Chenjia Zhang, Lunyong Zhang, Jing Zhou, Yanzhuo Li, Yu-Cheng Huang, Jingyuan Ma, Ting-Shan Chan, Chien-Te Chen, Chao Jing, Emin Mijit, Zhiwei Hu, Jian-Qiang Wang, Linjuan Zhang
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Recent advancements in the molecular design of deep-red to near-infrared light-absorbing photocatalysts Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Minling Zhong, Yujie Sun
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Solar fuels: Advancements in photothermal CO2 conversion to light olefins Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Alessio Tauro, Fabio Salomone
Solar-driven catalysis has recently gained importance as a sustainable alternative to traditional energy-intensive processes. In this issue of Chem Catalysis, Song et al. thoroughly examine the mechanisms of photothermal CO2 hydrogenation to olefins. Our preview provides concise insights into their comprehensive study by highlighting perspectives and developments in CO2 utilization.
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Unraveling the deactivation mechanism of methanol-to-olefin conversion over zeolite catalysts Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Runze Liu, Weili Dai
Because of the complexity of methanol-to-olefin (MTO) conversion, clarifying the deactivation mechanism is still challenging. In this issue of Chem Catalysis, Weibin Fan and co-workers clarify the formation and evolution of coke precursors, i.e., cross-linked conjugate species, over zeolite catalysts, providing new insights into the deactivation mechanism in MTO conversion.
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Taming glycosylidene carbenes through bench-stable glycosylidene diaziridines to access boro-ketosides Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Charles C.J. Loh
In this issue of Chem Catalysis, He and co-workers demonstrate easy access to diverse glycosyl boro-ketosides via a rare glycosylidene carbene intermediate. They use stable glycosylidene diaziridines as precursors for carbene generation, leading to products convertible into rare sugars and pharmaceutically interesting derivatives, such as tofogliflozin.
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Engineering out-of-plane microstructure enables higher hydrogen production Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Jong-Pil Jeon, Jong-Beom Baek
In this issue of Chem Catalysis, Xiong et al. describe the preparation of a strain-controlled MoS2 monolayer using bubbles toward the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The induced microstructure and intrinsic S vacancies affected the electronic structure, exciton dynamics, and hydrogen adsorption, resulting in larger bubbles. The derived samples exhibited better acidic HER performance
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Remote enantioselective desymmetrization of cyclohexanone with carbonyl 1,2-transposition Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Hong Lu, Hao Wei
In this issue of Chem Catalysis, Ye and co-workers present a bisguanidinium-catalyzed method involving an intramolecular carbonyl 1,2-transposition for the remote enantioselective desymmetrization of prochiral cyclohexanone. The comprehensive mechanistic experiments, coupled with density functional theory (DFT) calculations, lay a robust foundation for future advancements in functional-group transposition
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Highly site-selective C(sp3)–H bond functionalization enabled by framework confinements Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Yuping Wang, Feihe Huang
Mimicking enzymes’ ability to orient substrates through nanoconfinement holds significant promise for the development of artificial catalysts with enhanced performance. Recently in Chem, a cyclodextrin-based metal-organic framework has been shown to undergo selective C–H bond activation in the presence of guest molecules upon photoirradiation, illustrating a crucial advance in replicating biological
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Direct characterization of interface sites in Au/TiO2 catalysts prepared using atomic layer deposition Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Wang Ke, Xiangdong Qin, Yovanny Vazquez, Ilkeun Lee, Francisco Zaera
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Synthesis of C5-boryl indoles via a borane-catalyzed borylation/hydride transfer cascade Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Baoquan Zhan, Jianxing Lv, Jiangyue Wu, Hua Zhang
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Catalytic reduction of dinitrogen to silylamines by earth-abundant lanthanide and group 4 complexes Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Anthony Wong, Francis Y.T. Lam, Matthew Hernandez, Jaden Lara, T. Michael Trinh, Rory P. Kelly, Tatsumi Ochiai, Guodong Rao, R. David Britt, Nikolas Kaltsoyannis, Polly L. Arnold
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Progress and perspective on covalent organic frameworks for photo-catalytic hydrogen peroxide production Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Shan-Shan Zhu, Zhenwei Zhang, Zhongping Li, Huijuan Yue, Xiaoming Liu
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Functional group transfer strategies unlock new synthetic avenues Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Jinghui Zhang, Muliang Zhang, Martin Oestreich
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Readily accessible chiral frustrated Lewis pair catalysts: Asymmetric hydrosilylation of imines and quinolines Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Jing Guo, Lvnan Jin, Lei Xiao, Maying Yan, Jiangkun Xiong, Zheng-Wang Qu, Stefan Grimme, Douglas W. Stephan
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Photothermal conversion of CO2 into lower olefins at the interface of the K-promoted Ru/Fe3O4 catalyst Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Chuqiao Song, Zhaohua Wang, Jianwen Zhao, Xuetao Qin, Mi Peng, Zirui Gao, Ming Xu, Yao Xu, Jie Yan, Yingpu Bi, Meng Wang, Liwei Chen, Zhen Yin, Xi Liu, Jinxun Liu, Ding Ma
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Catalytic pyrolysis of biomass to aromatics over bifunctional Ni/ZSM-5 catalysts assembled on rice husk-derived silica platform Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Bin Chen, Shui Yang, Longmei Shang, Yiling Wu, Youting Wang, Jian Tian, Jiale Huang, Xiaodong Zhang, Qingbiao Li, Guowu Zhan
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Photoreforming of PET waste via single-atom catalysts Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Emilia Paone, Francesco Mauriello
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Controlling the selectivity of proton and electron transfers in electrocatalysis Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Pablo Garrido-Barros, Ignacio Funes-Ardoiz
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Mechanism of a Mn12-based cluster electrocatalyst for homogeneous water oxidation Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Yu-Heng Wang
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Controlling selectivity of hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) in photoredox catalysis Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Ignacio Funes-Ardoiz, Pablo Garrido-Barros
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Advancing cathode-gas electrode design: Overcoming CO2 gas solubility limitation in H-cells Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Peng-Fei Sui, Jing-Li Luo
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Pd-catalyzed enantioselective synthesis of uncommon inherently chiral tribenzoannulenes Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Lucía López, Carlos Valdés
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Catalytic upcycling plastics with CO2: A novel strategy for carbon waste valorization Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Chengyang Sun, Yanqin Wang
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Enabling epoxidation and oxygen-atom transfer by leveraging the water-oxidation pathway Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Alexandre Terry, Nikolay Kornienko
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Tandem alchemy: Crafting iso-olefins from carbon dioxide Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Yu-Chuan Lin
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Material dynamics for active and resilient oxygen evolution reaction in acid media Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Juliana S.A. Carneiro, Daniela V. Fraga Alvarez
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Enantioselective synthesis of axially chiral P-containing allenes for allenyl chirality Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Guangshou Feng, Qiu Wang
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Bisguanidinium-catalyzed remote enantioselective desymmetrization with 1,2-acyl shift Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Wenchao Chen, Li Chen, Junbo Chen, Wentao Wu, Yanlei Yu, Hong Wang, Richmond Lee, Choon-Hong Tan, Xinyi Ye
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Dual nickel- and photoredox-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond formations via reductive cross-coupling involving organohalides Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Hepan Wang, Tao XU
Dual nickel/photoredox catalysis, which combines nickel catalysis with photocatalysis, has emerged as an elegant and practical synthetic strategy for forging various carbon-carbon bonds and accomplishing the dicarbofunctionalization of alkenes or alkynes. Among this, this regime can smoothly achieve reductive cross-couplings, including asymmetric reductive cross-couplings, using readily available electrophilic
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Strain derived from bubbles at monolayer MoS2/hBN interfaces for enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction activity Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Junjie Xiong, Yuchen Cai, Wenlong Dong, Xinying Luo, Zhongliang Yu, Bowen Liu, Luqi Liu, Tao Liang, Zhenxing Wang, Yang Gao, Bin Wang
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Glycosylidene-carbene-mediated homologation of boronic esters for the synthesis of boro-ketosides Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Qibin Zhu, Xinyu Tian, Gang He
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Mechanism investigation of acid-tailored USY zeolites via ion exchange in polypropylene cracking Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Xue Yang, Boxu Gao, Wanyi Li, Kaige Hou, Kexin Yan, Tianlan Yan, Sinong Wang, Yahong Zhang, Lei Wang, Yi Tang
Precisely tailoring the location and strength of Brønsted acid is crucial for the catalytic cracking of polyolefins. Here, by simple sodium cation exchange (Na-USY, where is the Na/Al ratio), it was unexpectedly discovered that Na-USY ( < 0.5) displayed a lower cracking temperature of polypropylene (PP) with optimum performance and excellent reproducibility at = 0.38, rather than pure H-USY, as generally
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Photoinduced radical-polar crossover cyclization reactions Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Zhiming Zhu, Yongxin Zhang, Ziyang Li, Chao Shu
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Photobiocatalysis: A promising tool for sustainable synthesis Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jian-Peng Wang, Min-Hua Zong, Ning Li
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Coupling single-atomic iron sites with iron nanoparticles for tandem-enhanced ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Lei Wang, Panjie Guo, Yun Han, Chao Han, Hai Sun, Run Huang, Xuan Liu, Mengting Huang, Zhelin Mao, Xuecheng Yan, Aijun Du, Xin Wang
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Elucidating the mechanism of a stable and re-usable Mn12-based electrocatalyst for homogenous water oxidation Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Naama Gluz, Guilin Ruan, Galia Maayan
MnO(OR)(HO) clusters are mimetic models of the oxygen-evolving center near photosystem II. A few water-soluble clusters were recently developed as water oxidation (WO) electrocatalysts. Although some understanding regarding their composition-activity relationships was acquired, their full catalytic mechanism was never studied. In this work, we report on MnO(OCCH(OH)Br)(HO) (, which is a stable and
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Mizoroki-Heck-type transformations in natural product synthesis: Case studies in carbopalladation and forging all-carbon quaternary stereocenters Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Liam K. Burt, Rebecca O. Fuller, Debabrata Maiti, Alex C. Bissember
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Research progress of MOF-based materials in photocatalytic reduction of CO2 and N2 Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Tianyu Huang, Hui Yang, Wenlin Xu, Yangyang Sun, Huan Pang
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Electrocatalysis of the ammonia oxidation reaction Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Xueda Ding, Ying Ji, Hengshuo Huang, Jialei Huang, Shuangqiang Chen, Chao Yang, Fengwang Li, Mingchuan Luo
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Formation and evolution of the coke precursors on the zeolite catalyst in the conversion of methanol to olefins Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sheng Fan, Han Wang, Pengfei Wang, Weiyong Jiao, Sen Wang, Zhangfeng Qin, Mei Dong, Jianguo Wang, Weibin Fan
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Upgrading waste plastics to value-added aromatics Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Shengming Li, Zhongyu Li, Fan Zhang, Jinxing Chen
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Direct oxygen-containing simulated flue gas electrolysis over amine-confined Ag catalyst in a flow cell Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Ji Wei Sun, Tingting Yu, Haoran Wu, Minghui Zhu, Aiping Chen, Cheng Lian, Hua Gui Yang, Peng Fei Liu
High cost of pure CO feed constitutes a significant economic obstacle in industrial-scale CO electrolysis. Direct CO electrochemical conversion from flue gas has emerged as a promising strategy to reduce feed cost, while the O in flue gas cannot be ignored due to its strong reactivity. Here, we achieved fast, selective CO electrosynthesis directly fed with simulated oxygen-containing flue gas (95%
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Metal-ligand cooperativity in chemical electrosynthesis Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Maia E. Czaikowski, Sophie W. Anferov, John S. Anderson
Electrochemistry has been an increasingly useful tool for organic synthesis, as it can selectively generate reactive intermediates under mild conditions using an applied potential. Concurrently, synergistic activity of a metal and a ligand has been used in thermal catalysis and electrocatalytic renewable fuel generation for substrate selectivity and improved catalyst activity. Combining these synthetic
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Transition-metal nitrides: Pioneering a new era in the hydrogen evolution reaction Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Lei Shi, Huiyuan Zhu
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Selective terpene oxidation by unspecific peroxygenases with complementary reactivity Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Shixuan Cao, Yuxuan Ye
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Improved oxygen evolution reaction for high-current PEM water electrolysis Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Guoyu Zhong, Shurui Xu, Baizeng Fang
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Asymmetric synthesis of organoborons via Ir-catalyzed stereoconvergent reactions Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Yu-Wen Sun, De-Wei Gao
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How achiral Brønsted acid is involved in co-catalyst model with chiral phosphoric acid for construction of quaternary carbon stereocenter Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Zi-Hao Li, Jia Zhou, Chang Liu, Fu-Xin Tan, Le Wang, Guo-Dong Zhu, Shu-Yu Zhang
Chiral phosphoric acids, acting as bifunctional catalysts, play a dual role in activating both nucleophiles and electrophiles through non-covalent interactions. To enhance the activity of acid/base sites and create a favorable chiral steric environment, researchers have widely employed an efficient method, involving the introduction of an achiral Brønsted acid as reinforcement, in addition to structural
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Targeted synthesis, characterization, and electrochemical analysis of transition-metal-oxide catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Darius Hayes, Shaun Alia, Bryan Pivovar, Ryan Richards
Hydrogen fuel can be produced through the electrochemical splitting of water, an energy-intensive process that requires the use of electrocatalysts to be more efficient. Whereas current precious-metal-based electrocatalysts might be costly on a larger scale, transition-metal-oxide catalysts are more earth abundant and have shown promising activity. The development and improvement of highly active
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Recent progress in stereoselective transformations enabled by thermally activated delayed fluorescence photocatalysts Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Fan Ni, Jiajie Zhang, Yuzhe Zhou, Longzhen Qiu
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Smart design strategies of metal-based compounds for electrochemical CO2 reduction: From microscopic structure to atomic-level active site Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Tong Zhang, Yu-Feng Tang, Mulin Yu, Shuo Liu, Lin-Bo Liu, Xian-Zhu Fu, Jing-Li Luo, Subiao Liu
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Ni-catalyzed propargylic substitution reaction: A general and versatile tool to assemble axially chiral phosphorus-containing allenes Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Xiao-dong Gu, Ka Yan Ngai, Wei Wang, Bin Li, Jun (Joelle) Wang
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Enantioselective synthesis of inherently chiral 9-benzylidene-9H-tribenzo[a,c,e][7]annulene and its application as a ligand platform Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Xilong Wang, Chaoqin Wang, Yu Luo, Jing Li, Chunfang Gan, Shuang Luo, Qiang Zhu
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Mechanically driven water splitting over piezoelectric nanomaterials Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Shun Li, Xinyue Zhang, Fan Yang, Jianming Zhang, Weidong Shi, Federico Rosei
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Elucidation of site structures and CO oxidation kinetics of the Ir1/TiO2 single-atom catalyst Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Liping Liu, Coogan B. Thompson, Tianyou Mou, Ayman M. Karim, Hongliang Xin
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Atomically engineering the metal-support interaction of single-atom Cu/TiO2 for efficient polyethylene terephthalate plastic photoreforming Chem Catal. Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Zhida Li, Yang Yang, Chunyue Zhang, Wenqi Fan, Guifeng Li, Jin Fang, Lu Lu