Single-atom catalysts across the periodic table

SK Kaiser, Z Chen, D Faust Akl, S Mitchell… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Isolated atoms featuring unique reactivity are at the heart of enzymatic and homogeneous
catalysts. In contrast, although the concept has long existed, single-atom heterogeneous …

Heterogeneous MNC Catalysts for Aerobic Oxidation Reactions: Lessons from Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts: Focus Review

JS Bates, MR Johnson, F Khamespanah… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nonprecious metal heterogeneous catalysts composed of first-row transition metals
incorporated into nitrogen-doped carbon matrices (MN-Cs) have been studied for decades …

Enhanced oxygen activation achieved by robust single chromium atom-derived catalysts in aerobic oxidative desulfurization

W Jiang, X An, J Xiao, Z Yang, J Liu, H Chen, H Li… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Oxidative desulfurization (ODS) plays critical roles in the production of high-quality sulfur
impurity-free fuels, especially procedures using molecular oxygen as the sole oxidant …

Catalytic activity enhancement on alcohol dehydrogenation via directing reaction pathways from single-to double-atom catalysis

C Liu, T Li, X Dai, J Zhao, D He, G Li… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
To further improve the intrinsic reactivity of single-atom catalysts (SACs), the controllable
modification of a single site by coordinating with a second neighboring metal atom …

Applications of single-atom catalysts

Q Zhang, J Guan - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Owning to unsaturated coordination environment, quantum size effect and metal-support
interaction, single-or dual-atom metal sites, such as Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd …

Homogeneity of Supported Single‐Atom Active Sites Boosting the Selective Catalytic Transformations

Y Shi, Y Zhou, Y Lou, Z Chen, H Xiong… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Selective conversion of specific functional groups to desired products is highly important but
still challenging in industrial catalytic processes. The adsorption state of surface species is …

Toward efficient single-atom catalysts for renewable fuels and chemicals production from biomass and CO2

Y Lu, Z Zhang, H Wang, Y Wang - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2021 - Elsevier
Transformation of biomass and CO 2 into renewable value-added chemicals and fuels has
been identified as a promising strategy to fulfill high energy demands, lower greenhouse …

Origin of the activity of Co–N–C catalysts for chemoselective hydrogenation of nitroarenes

M Li, S Chen, Q Jiang, Q Chen, X Wang, Y Yan… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The production of functionalized anilines by chemoselective hydrogenation of nitroarenes
occupies an important position in the chemical industries. Recently, cobalt and nitrogen …

Conversion of biomass-derived feedstocks into value-added chemicals over single-atom catalysts

S De, AS Burange, R Luque - Green Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The selective transformation of biomass-derived platform chemicals into high-value
chemicals has become one of the important topics of current research as the current …

Environment molecules boost the chemoselective hydrogenation of nitroarenes on cobalt single-atom catalysts

M Li, C Zhang, Y Tang, Q Chen, W Li, Z Han… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have received intensive interest due to the utmost atom
utilization and unique catalytic behaviors. However, the catalytic mechanism of SACs is still …