Catalysis – Page 11
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Durable catalyst could enable large scale conversion of carbon dioxide to syngas
Nanocatalysts on crystalline supports show remarkable stability producing hydrogen and carbon monoxide
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Catalyst rapidly turns carbon dioxide into simple chemicals breaking activity record
Ionomer coating improves gas transport to electrode surface
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Nickel catalyst switches on double stereochemistry in reaction between racemic alkanes
First-of-its-kind reaction creates stereocentres by stitching together racemic nucleophiles and electrophiles
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Cobalt makes a comeback in hydroformylation catalysis
Cationic cobalt catalyst could drive down costs in widely-used process
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Exploring nickel reactivity in C–H activation chemistry
Coming closer to an alternative for palladium
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Grinding out single-atom catalysts made simple by ball mill
No compromise on quality of heterogeneous catalysts made on kilogram scale
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Catalyst breaks sulfur–sulfur bonds to give new life to tired tyres
Process recovers organic components that can become new elastomers
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‘Ideal’ water splitting catalysts actually exist, simulations find
New computational model could accelerate the discovery of cheaper and more efficient catalysts
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Flow synthesis produces chiral intermediate for antidepressant drug
The first solvent-free organocatalytic flow process yields the key chiral intermediate for paroxetine on a multigram-scale
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Chemists taken aback as dinitrogen found to speed up some reactions
Warnings that nitrogen should no longer be considered just an inert carrier gas
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Light intensity changes can switch photocatalyst between one- and two-photon mechanisms
Simple optical lens behind strategy for manipulating photochemical reactivity
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Article
Johnson Matthey enzyme technology for a clean and healthy tomorrow
Enzymes have evolved into nature’s reaction facilitators over millions of years and their unique catalytic abilities drive science by connecting essential life elements
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Single-atom catalysis
Single atom and hierarchical nanopore catalysts are reducing the need for precious metals, and could clean up the energy and chemical industries, finds Andy Extance
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Stille cross-coupling
Palladium and tin combined to lay the foundations for a revolution in C–C bond-forming reactions
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Stereoselectivity with a twist
Helical ligands amplify solvent chirality to control reaction outcomes
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New carbodiphosphoranes break superbasicity record
Chemists overcome synthetic challenges to make uncharged carbon molecules that sit at far end of THF basicity scale
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Catalyst cleans up alcohol couplings
Eight years’ work yields Mitsunobu chemistry with nothing but water as a byproduct
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Carbon dioxide serves as carbonyl source in frugal process for making aromatic esters
Nanoscale confinement triggers strong base reactivity in process that shuns stoichiometric consumption of resource intensive reagents
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Solo palladium in catalytic copper alloy reduces nitric oxide from vehicle exhausts
First system to work at low temperatures that doesn’t generate nitrous oxide