Catalysis Science & Technology: Editors’ Choice October 2021

25 Oct 2021

Associate Editors Andrew Weller and Jinhua Ye have selected some outstanding recent research from Catalysis Science & Technology to share with you. Read now for free until 29 January 2022.

Andrew Weller is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of York, UK. Prior to this, he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford for 13 years. He moved to Oxford in 2007, after starting his independent career at the University Bath in 1999 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He is currently a holder of an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship, and was recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Frankland and Dalton Transactions European Lectureship awards.

His research focus is on the organometallic chemistry of the transition metals and homogeneous catalysis. In particular, he develops organometallic complexes that are “operationally unsaturated” that lead to highly efficient, selective catalysts for a wide variety of important bond activation processes in both solution and single-crystalline phases.

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A mechanistic investigation of the Suzuki polycondensation reaction using MS/MS methods

Michelle Y. C. Ting, Lars P. E. Yunker, Ian C. Chagunda, Katherine Hatlelid, Meghan Viewega and J. Scott McIndoe

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2021,11, 4406-4416

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Aerobic oxidation of primary amines to amides catalyzed by an annulated mesoionic carbene (MIC) stabilized Ru complex

Suman Yadav, Noor U Din Reshi, Saikat Pala and Jitendra K. Bera

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2021, Advance Article

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Zirconium-catalysed direct substitution of alcohols: enhancing the selectivity by kinetic analysis

Cristiana Margarita, Piret Villo, Hernando Tuñon, Oscar Dalla-Santa, David Camaj, Robin Carlsson, Malin Lill, Anja Ramström and Helena Lundberg

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019, 9, 3259-3269. DOI: 10.1039/C9CY00368A

Jinhua Ye received her PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1990 and joined National Research Institute for Metals (former NIMS) in 1991. She is now a Principle Investigator and the Field Coordinator of Nano-Power Field at International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) and a Professor of Joint Doctoral Program in Graduate School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan. She is also the appointed director of TU-NIMS Joint Research Center and Professor of Materials Science at Tianjin University, China.

Her research interests focus on the research and development of novel photocatalytic materials and their applications in the fields of environment remediation and solar to chemical energy conversion.

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Ir-based bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting

Lin-Wei Chena and Hai-Wei Liang

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2021, 11, 4673-4689

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Exposed (002) facets and controllable thickness of CdS nanobelts drive desirable hydrogen-adsorption free energy (ΔGH) for boosting visible-light photocatalytic performance

Dejian Yan, Zhiyong Xue, Feng Chen, Xia Liu, Zhenhua Yang, Yong Pei, Shaoxiong Zhoua and Caixian Zhao

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2021, Advance Article

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Boosting free radical type photocatalysis over Pd/Fe-MOFs by coordination structure engineering

Hongmei Cheng, Cuicui Zang, Fengxia Bian, Yanke Jiang, Lin Yang, Fan Dongb and Heyan Jiang