Unifying views on catalyst deactivation

AJ Martín, S Mitchell, C Mondelli, S Jaydev… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Berzelius stated that catalysts remain unaltered in their reaction environment. However,
catalyst deactivation always becomes noticeable at certain timescales, frequently hindering …

Deactivation in homogeneous transition metal catalysis: causes, avoidance, and cure

RH Crabtree - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Deactivation leads to loss of catalyst activity or selectivity with increasing reaction time, but
has attracted less academic attention in homogeneous catalysis than is justified by its …

In situ electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy for catalysis

SA Bonke, T Risse, A Schnegg… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2021 - nature.com
In situ catalysis studies seek insight into species present under reaction conditions to
elucidate reaction mechanisms and understand the atomistic details of the active catalyst …

Selective ethylene oligomerization

OL Sydora - Organometallics, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ethylene oligomerization to produce 1-alkenes is a cornerstone of organometallic research.
The original α-olefin commercial catalyst system, triethylaluminum, has grown to become …

HERFD-XAS and valence-to-core-XES: new tools to push the limits in research with hard X-rays?

M Bauer - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this perspective, the HERFD-XANES (high energy resolution fluorescence detected X-ray
absorption near edge structure) and Kβ2, 5-or V2C-XES (valence-to-core X-ray emission …

Chromium catalysts for selective ethylene oligomerization to 1-hexene and 1-octene: Recent results

KA Alferov, GP Belov, Y Meng - Applied Catalysis A: General, 2017 - Elsevier
The objective of this review is the analysis and comment of recent publication results (from
July 2010 until February 2017) obtained for selective ethylene oligomerization toward 1 …

Selective ethylene tetramerization: an overview

B Hao, F Alam, Y Jiang, L Wang, H Fan, J Ma… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
With greater market demand, interest in the selective production of linear α-olefins has been
increasing. This review discusses the principles underlying the evolution of the ligand …

Operando monitoring of mechanisms and deactivation of molecular catalysts

K Köhnke, N Wessel, J Esteban, J Jin, AJ Vorholt… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Observing and understanding the phenomena associated with the reaction mechanisms
and catalyst deactivation in molecular catalysis is a very challenging task in green chemistry …

Highly efficient electrocatalytic CO2 reduction by a CrIII quaterpyridine complex

JW Wang, ZM Luo, G Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Design tactics and mechanistic studies both remain as fundamental challenges during the
exploitations of earth-abundant molecular electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction, especially for …

Determination of the electronic and structural configuration of coordination compounds by synchrotron-radiation techniques

C Garino, E Borfecchia, R Gobetto… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this review we provide an overview of the potential of synchrotron radiation techniques to
understand the structural and electronic properties of coordination compounds. Besides the …