A spatially orthogonal hierarchically porous acid–base catalyst for cascade and antagonistic reactions

MA Isaacs, CMA Parlett, N Robinson, LJ Durndell… - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Complex organic molecules are of great importance to research and industrial chemistry
and typically synthesized from smaller building blocks by multistep reactions. The ability to …

Gradient hierarchically porous structure for rapid capillary-assisted catalysis

CT Hung, L Duan, T Zhao, L Liu, Y Xia… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synthesis of hierarchically porous structures with uniform spatial gradient and structure
reinforcement effect still remains a great challenge. Herein, we report the synthesis of …

Unravelling mass transport in hierarchically porous catalysts

MA Isaacs, N Robinson, B Barbero… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Bio-derived platform chemicals and fuels are important for the development of sustainable
manufacturing. However, their efficient production from biomass necessitates new catalysts …

Spatially orthogonal chemical functionalization of a hierarchical pore network for catalytic cascade reactions

CMA Parlett, MA Isaacs, SK Beaumont, LM Bingham… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
The chemical functionality within porous architectures dictates their performance as
heterogeneous catalysts; however, synthetic routes to control the spatial distribution of …

Synthesis of solid catalysts with spatially resolved acidic and basic molecular functionalities

Z Weng, T Yu, F Zaera - Acs Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
A synthetic procedure was developed to prepare dual acid–base catalysts on a single
platform. Mesoporous SBA-15 was derivatized using known grafting chemistry via the …

Reaction design for the compartmented combination of heterogeneous and enzyme catalysis

JM Sperl, JM Carsten, JK Guterl, P Lommes… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The combination of a heterogeneously catalyzed reaction with a biotransformation as a one-
pot cascade process is an important strategy to reduce costs, time, and labor efforts in the …

A trifunctional mesoporous silica-based, highly active catalyst for one-pot, three-step cascade reactions

AV Biradar, VS Patil, P Chandra, DS Doke… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the synthesis of a trifunctional catalyst containing amine, sulphonic acid and Pd
nanoparticle catalytic groups anchored on the pore walls of SBA-15. The catalyst efficiently …

A bifunctional zeolitic porous liquid with incompatible Lewis pairs for antagonistic cascade catalysis

H Chen, Z Yang, H Peng, K Jie, P Li, S Ding, W Guo… - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
The emergence of porous liquids (PLs) opened opportunities to form unique antagonistic
systems capable of fulfilling cascade reactions promoted by incompatible active sites in one …

[HTML][HTML] Mesoporous silica with site-isolated amine and phosphotungstic acid groups: a solid catalyst with tunable antagonistic functions for one-pot tandem reactions

NR Shiju, AH Alberts, S Khalid, DR Brown… - … (International ed. in …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Scientists engaged in heterogeneous catalysis often cite enzymes as their model catalysts.
Enzymes can efficiently catalyze multistep processes that give various types of …

A porous Brønsted superacid as an efficient and durable solid catalyst

Q Sun, K Hu, K Leng, X Yi, B Aguila, Y Sun… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of catalysts able to assist industrial chemical transformations is a topic of
high importance. In view of the versatile catalytic capabilities of acid catalysts, extensive …