Photocatalyzed Oxidative Tandem Reaction Mediated by Bipyridinium for Multifunctional Derivatization of Alcohols
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 13:e202301911. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301911. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe multifunctional derivatization of alcohols has been achieved by the bipyridinium-based conjugated small molecule photocatalysts with redox center and Lewis acid site. Besides exhibiting high activity in the selective generation of aldehydes/ketones, acids from alcohols through solvent modulation, this system renders the first selective synthesis of esters via an attractive cross-coupling pattern, whose reaction route is significantly different from the traditional condensation of alcohols and acids or esterification from hem...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 13, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Xin-Rong Yao Meng-Ze Jia Xiao-Li Miao Shi-Kai Yu Yun-Rui Chen Jia-Qi Pan Jie Zhang Source Type: research
Optimized Transition Metal Phosphides for Direct Seawater Electrolysis: Current Trends
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 13:e202301926. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301926. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSeawater electrolysis presents a viable route for sustainable large-scale hydrogen production, yet its practical application is hindered by several technical challenges. These include the sluggish kinetics of hydrogen evolution, poor stability, cation deposition at the cathode, electrode corrosion, and competing chloride oxidation at the anode. To overcome these obstacles, the development of innovative electrocatalysts is crucial. Transition metal phosphides (TMPs) have emerged as promising candidates owing to their superior cat...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 13, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Yong Li Tianran Xin Zongcheng Cao Weiran Zheng Peng He Lawrence Yoon Suk Lee Source Type: research
Preparation of Sulfonyl Chlorides by Oxidative Chlorination of Thiols and Disulfides using HNO3/HCl/O2 in a Flow Reactor
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 13:e202400292. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400292. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA continuous flow metal-free protocol for the synthesis of sulfonyl chlorides from thiols and disulfides in the presence of nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and oxygen was developed. The influence of the reaction parameters was investigated under batch and flow conditions. Online 19F NMR was successfully implemented to investigate different reaction conditions within a single experiment. The sulfonyl chlorides were isolated (mostly in 70-81% yield) after performing a simple aqueous washing procedure. In particular, the protocol wa...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 13, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Niklas Sulzer Dominik Polterauer Christopher Hone C Oliver Kappe Source Type: research
Advances in Hierarchical Inorganic Nanostructures for Efficient Solar Energy Harvesting Systems
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 13:e202301755. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301755. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe urgent need to address the global energy and environmental crisis necessitates the development of efficient solar-power harvesting systems. Among the promising candidates, hierarchical inorganic nanostructures stand out due to their exceptional attributes, including a high specific surface area, abundant active sites, and tunable optoelectronic properties. In this comprehensive review, we delve into the fundamental principles underlying various solar energy harvesting technologies, including dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 13, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Manjunatha C Chandresh Kumar R Manmadha Rao B Girish Kumar S Varun S Kartik R Gyanprakash Maurya Karthik B Swathi C Mohtada Sadrzadeh Ajit Khosla Source Type: research
Recent Advances in Ammonia Synthesis: From Haber-Bosch Process to External Field Driven Strategies
This article concentrates on gas-solid phase ammonia synthesis, initially exploring the latest breakthroughs and improvements in thermal catalytic synthesis. Building on this, it especially focuses on emerging external field-driven alternatives, such as photocatalysis, photothermal catalysis, and low-temperature plasma catalysis strategies. The paper concludes by discussing the future prospects and objectives of nitrogen fixation technologies. This comprehensive review is intended to provide profound insights for overcoming the inherent thermodynamic and kinetic constraints in traditional ammonia synthesis, thereby fosteri...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Jiayang Li Qingchuan Xiong Xiaowei Mu Lu Li Source Type: research
The Laccase Catalysed Tandem Lignin Depolymerisation/polymerisation
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 12:e202301646. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301646. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe development of strategies allowing either the production of high value phenolics, or the isolation of properties-enhanced materials from technical lignins represents a fundamental step in the industrial upcycling of technical lignins. Both aims are met by the strategy presented in the present work, relying on the coupling of solvent-based fractionation with the oxidative action of a new type of alkaline-stable transgenic laccase. The described approach succeeded in the tandem, high-yield and selective isolation of valuable l...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Nicol ò Pajer Matteo Gigli Claudia Crestini Source Type: research
V-MXenes for energy storage/conversion applications: Trends and Prospects
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 12:e202400283. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400283. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMXenes, a two-dimensional (2D) material, exhibit excellent optical, electrical, chemical, mechanical, and electrochemical properties. Titanium-based MXene (Ti-MXene) has been extensively studied and serves as the foundation for 2D MXenes. However, other transition metals possess the potential to offer excellent properties in various applications. This comprehensive review aims to provide an overview of the properties, challenges, key findings, and applications of less-explored vanadium-based MXenes (V-MXenes) and their composite...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Iftikhar Hussain Muhammad Ahmad Onkar Jaywant Kewate Abdul Hanan Faiza Bibi Muhammad Sufyan Javed Irum Shaheen Kaili Zhang Source Type: research
Amorphous ZnSnOx Hollow Spheres Enable Highly Efficient CO2 Reduction
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 12:e202301694. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301694. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCarbon dioxide (CO2) adsorption and electron transport play an important role in CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR). Herein, we have demonstrated a new class of diverse hollow ZnSnOx (ZSO) through the amorphization of hydroxides to enhance CO2 adsorption and accelerate electron transport. The amorphization is occurred by calcination process, as indicated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectra. In particular, the ZnSnOx hollow spheres (ZSO HSs) achieve a high Faradaic efficiency (FE) of HCOOH up to 92.7% at best...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Hanjun Li Yao Chen Honggang Huang Zijing Cheng Shuxing Bai Feili Lai Nan Zhang Tianxi Liu Source Type: research
Perovskite for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution at Elevated Temperatures
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 12:e202301534. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301534. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe development of advanced electrolysis technologies such as anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer (AEMWE) is central to the vision of a sustainable energy future. Key to the realization of such AEMWE technology lies in the exploration of low-cost and high-efficient catalysts for facilitating the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Despite tremendous efforts in the fundamental research, most of today's OER works are conducted under room temperature, which deviates significantly with AEMWE's operating temperature (50-80...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Fatma Abdelghafar Xiaomin Xu San Ping Jiang Zongping Shao Source Type: research
Enhanced Carbon-Carbon Coupling at Interfaces with Abrupt Coordination Number Changes
We report a 45-h stable CO2RR operation at 220 mA cm-2, producing a C2+ product FE of ~80%.PMID:38472126 | DOI:10.1002/cssc.202400150 (Source: ChemSusChem)
Source: ChemSusChem - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Xuan Wang Ruihu Lu Binbin Pan Chao Yang Mengjiao Zhuansun Jun Li Yi Xu Sung-Fu Hung Gengfeng Zheng Yanguang Li Ziyun Wang Yuhang Wang Source Type: research
Facile Synthesis of Iron Carbide via Pyrolysis of Ferrous Fumarate for Catalytic CO2 Hydrogenation to Lower Olefins
In this study, iron-based catalysts were facilely prepared by direct pyrolysis of ferric fumarate (FF), which are applied to CO2 hydrogenation to olefin reaction to explore the effects of pyrolysis temperature and atmosphere on catalytic performance of the catalysts. Among them, NaFe-Air-400 catalyst exhibits the highest catalytic activity with 33.7%, and light olefin selectivity reaches as high as 47.1%. The catalytic performance of pyrolytic catalysts is better than that the impregnated NaFe catalyst on activated carbon (NaFe/AC). A series of XRD, Raman and SEM characterization results show a suitable pyrolysis temperatu...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Haochen Qi Wuqiang Si Zhiren Xu Guofeng Wang Xuangan Liu Changjiang Lyu Bin Huang Noritatsu Tsubaki Chuang Xing Jian Sun Source Type: research
Recent Advances in Ammonia Synthesis: From Haber-Bosch Process to External Field Driven Strategies
This article concentrates on gas-solid phase ammonia synthesis, initially exploring the latest breakthroughs and improvements in thermal catalytic synthesis. Building on this, it especially focuses on emerging external field-driven alternatives, such as photocatalysis, photothermal catalysis, and low-temperature plasma catalysis strategies. The paper concludes by discussing the future prospects and objectives of nitrogen fixation technologies. This comprehensive review is intended to provide profound insights for overcoming the inherent thermodynamic and kinetic constraints in traditional ammonia synthesis, thereby fosteri...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Jiayang Li Qingchuan Xiong Xiaowei Mu Lu Li Source Type: research
The Laccase Catalysed Tandem Lignin Depolymerisation/polymerisation
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 12:e202301646. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202301646. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe development of strategies allowing either the production of high value phenolics, or the isolation of properties-enhanced materials from technical lignins represents a fundamental step in the industrial upcycling of technical lignins. Both aims are met by the strategy presented in the present work, relying on the coupling of solvent-based fractionation with the oxidative action of a new type of alkaline-stable transgenic laccase. The described approach succeeded in the tandem, high-yield and selective isolation of valuable l...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Nicol ò Pajer Matteo Gigli Claudia Crestini Source Type: research
V-MXenes for energy storage/conversion applications: Trends and Prospects
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 12:e202400283. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400283. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMXenes, a two-dimensional (2D) material, exhibit excellent optical, electrical, chemical, mechanical, and electrochemical properties. Titanium-based MXene (Ti-MXene) has been extensively studied and serves as the foundation for 2D MXenes. However, other transition metals possess the potential to offer excellent properties in various applications. This comprehensive review aims to provide an overview of the properties, challenges, key findings, and applications of less-explored vanadium-based MXenes (V-MXenes) and their composite...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Iftikhar Hussain Muhammad Ahmad Onkar Jaywant Kewate Abdul Hanan Faiza Bibi Muhammad Sufyan Javed Irum Shaheen Kaili Zhang Source Type: research
Ni-Based Catalysts for CO2 Methanation: Exploring the Support Role in Structure-Activity Relationships
ChemSusChem. 2024 Mar 11:e202400310. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400310. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to methane is one of the highly researched areas for the production of chemical fuels. The activity of catalyst is largely affected by support type and metal-support interaction deriving from the special method during catalyst preparation. Hence, we employed a simple solvothermal technique to synthesize Ni-based catalysts with different supports and studied the support role (CeO2, Al2O3, ZrO2, and La2O3) on structure-activity relationships in CO2 methanation. It is found that catalyst morpholog...
Source: ChemSusChem - March 11, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Syed Musab Ahmed Jie Ren Inam Ullah Hao Lou Nuo Xu Zeeshan Abbasi Zhandong Wang Source Type: research
