[HTML][HTML] Surface organometallic and coordination chemistry toward single-site heterogeneous catalysts: strategies, methods, structures, and activities

C Coperet, A Comas-Vives, MP Conley… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The chemical industry relies on catalytic processes, which involve mainly heterogeneous
catalysts because they offer many advantages over their homogeneous counterparts such …

Bridging the Gap between Industrial and Well‐Defined Supported Catalysts

C Copéret, F Allouche, KW Chan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Many industrial catalysts contain isolated metal sites on the surface of oxide supports.
Although such catalysts have been used in a broad range of processes for more than 40 …

Heterogeneous oligomerization of ethylene over highly active and stable Ni-AlSBA-15 mesoporous catalysts

RD Andrei, MI Popa, F Fajula, V Hulea - Journal of Catalysis, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Ni-AlSBA-15 oligomerization catalysts (2.6 wt% Ni, Si/Al= 7) were prepared by post-
synthesis alumination of SBA-15 silica with sodium aluminate, followed by ion exchange …

Active sites in supported single-site catalysts: An NMR perspective

C Copéret, WC Liao, CP Gordon… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Development of well-defined heterogeneous catalysts requires detailed structural
characterization of active sites, an essential step toward establishing structure–activity …

Formation of a Strong Heterogeneous Aluminum Lewis Acid on Silica

KK Samudrala, W Huynh, RW Dorn… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Al (OC (CF3) 3)(PhF) reacts with silanols present on partially dehydroxylated silica
to form well‐defined≡ SiOAl (OC (CF3) 3) 2 (O (Si≡) 2)(1). 27Al NMR and DFT calculations …

Nuclear magnetic resonance: a spectroscopic probe to understand the electronic structure and reactivity of molecules and materials

CP Gordon, L Lätsch, C Coperet - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This Perspective focuses on the ability of chemical shift to identify and characterize the
electronic structure and associated reactivity of molecules and materials. After a general …

Stabilization of active, selective, and regenerable Ni-based dimerization catalysts by condensation of ethene withinordered mesopores

I Agirrezabal-Telleria, E Iglesia - Journal of catalysis, 2017 - Elsevier
This study reports the high and stable ethene dimerization turnover rates conferred upon Ni-
based active sites at subambient temperatures by the condensation of liquid ethene …

Visibility of Al surface sites of γ-alumina: a combined computational and experimental point of view

R Wischert, P Florian, C Copéret… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The nature of γ-alumina (γ-Al2O3) surface sites leaves many open questions today, and
solid-state NMR spectroscopy has been proposed and used as a tool for assessing their …

Effects of surface acidity on the structure of organometallics supported on oxide surfaces

KK Samudrala, MP Conley - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Well-defined organometallics supported on high surface area oxides are promising
heterogeneous catalysts. An important design factor in these materials is how the metal …

Computational Insights into Active Site Formation during Alkene Metathesis over a MoOx/SiO2 Catalyst: The Role of Surface Silanols

J Handzlik, K Kurleto, M Gierada - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
A MoO x/SiO2 system is an effective catalyst for alkene metathesis; however, the mechanism
of the transformation of the surface metal oxide species into active alkylidene sites is not well …