Pyrolyzed non‐precious metal catalysts have been proposed as an alternative to substitute
the expensive and scarce noble metal catalysts in several conversion energy reactions. For …

In heterogeneous catalysis, olefin oligomerization is typically performed on immobilized
transition metal ions, such as Ni2+ and Cr3+. Here we report that silica-supported, single …

Using reactivity predictors to enhance or control the electrocatalytic activity of materials is a
fascinating concept. This is especially true for the development of alternative platinum metal …

Following previous studies where the metal-centered redox potentials of MN4 complexes
are proposed as a reactivity descriptor for different electrochemical reactions, in the present …

Chemical reactivity descriptors are significant tools to study various systems and processes.
In order to explore their role in the prediction of catalytic activity, we have presented a …

Herein, we report a comparative study of ethylene activation and 1-hexene isomerization
carried out with isomeric neutral and cationic methallyl nickel complexes L1Ni (η3-C3H5) …

A detailed quantum chemical study that analyzed the mechanism of ethylene
oligomerization and polymerization by means of a family of four neutral methallyl NiII …

The synthesis of new methallyl-ferrocenyl-thiazoline-nickel complexes [1-(2-thiazolin-2-yl)-2-
(R-thio)-ferrocene-κ 2 N, S]-(η 3-methallyl) nickel (II)[Y](1-3, R= Me, i-Pr, Ph, Y= BF 4-4, R …

Density functional theory (DFT) is employed to investigate the promotion of B (C6F5) 3 as a
ligand for titanium (or vanadium) catalysts in ethylene/1-hexene copolymerization reactions …

The mechanism of ethylene polymerization by means of neutral methallyl-Ni (II) complexes
has been studied by quantum chemical calculations. Two isomer complexes having different …