Hydrogenase enzymes and their synthetic models: the role of metal hydrides

D Schilter, JM Camara, MT Huynh… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Hydrogenase enzymes efficiently process H2 and protons at organometallic FeFe, NiFe, or
Fe active sites. Synthetic modeling of the many H2ase states has provided insight into …

Computational studies of synthetically relevant homogeneous organometallic catalysis involving Ni, Pd, Ir, and Rh: an overview of commonly employed DFT methods …

T Sperger, IA Sanhueza, I Kalvet… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The field of organometallic catalysis has attracted considerable interest from both academia
and industry due to its broad applications in synthetic transformations. Pd, Ni, Rh, and Ir …

Simple, efficient, and universal energy decomposition analysis method based on dispersion-corrected density functional theory

T Lu, Q Chen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023 - ACS Publications
Energy decomposition analysis (EDA) is an important class of methods to explore the nature
of interaction between fragments in a chemical system. It can decompose the interaction …

Mechanistic investigation of Ni-catalyzed reductive cross-coupling of alkenyl and benzyl electrophiles

RF Turro, JLH Wahlman, ZJ Tong, X Chen… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mechanistic investigations of the Ni-catalyzed asymmetric reductive alkenylation of N-
hydroxyphthalimide (NHP) esters and benzylic chlorides are reported. Investigations of the …

Molecularly soldered covalent organic frameworks for ultrafast precision sieving

Y Zhang, J Guo, G Han, Y Bai, Q Ge, J Ma, CH Lau… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The weak interlamellar interaction of covalent organic framework (COF) nanocrystals inhibit
the construction of highly efficient ion/molecular sieving membranes owing to the inferior …

Design of stretchable and self-powered sensing device for portable and remote trace biomarkers detection

W Huang, Q Ding, H Wang, Z Wu, Y Luo, W Shi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Timely and remote biomarker detection is highly desired in personalized medicine and
health protection but presents great challenges in the devices reported so far. Here, we …

Univariate classification of phosphine ligation state and reactivity in cross-coupling catalysis

SH Newman-Stonebraker, SR Smith, JE Borowski… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Chemists often use statistical analysis of reaction data with molecular descriptors to identify
structure-reactivity relationships, which can enable prediction and mechanistic …

Photoinduced copper-catalyzed asymmetric C–O cross-coupling

J Chen, YJ Liang, PZ Wang, GQ Li… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The construction of carbon–heteroatom bonds is one of the most active areas of research in
organic chemistry because the function of organic molecules is often derived from the …

Ligand-controlled divergent dehydrogenative reactions of carboxylic acids via C–H activation

Z Wang, L Hu, N Chekshin, Z Zhuang, S Qian, JX Qiao… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Dehydrogenative transformations of alkyl chains to alkenes through methylene carbon-
hydrogen (C–H) activation remain a substantial challenge. We report two classes of pyridine …

Photocatalytic aerobic oxidation of C(sp3)-H bonds

L Zhang, RH Li, XX Li, S Wang, J Liu, XX Hong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In modern industries, the aerobic oxidation of C (sp3)-H bonds to achieve the value-added
conversion of hydrocarbons requires high temperatures and pressures, which significantly …