Modern Heterogeneous Catalysis

Paper success nearly 6 years after we started this:

"Core-level nonlinear spectroscopy triggered by stochastic X-ray pulses"

Authors: Yves Kayser, Christopher Milne, Pavle Juranic, Leonardo Sala, Joanna Czapla-Masztafiak, Rolf Follath, Matjaz Kavcic, Gregor Knopp, Jens Rehanek, Wojciech Błachucki, Mickaël Delcey, Marcus Lundberg, Krzysztof Tyrala, Diling Zhu, Roberto Alonso-Mori, Rafael Abela, Jacinto Sa, and Jakub Szlachetko

Journal: Nature Communications

-Prague
More than 6 years in the making and after 3 years planning we are about to run the first dark catalysis with light triggering experiments.

Two new papers are online! We use quantum chemical methods to explain product distributions in (photo)catalysed Z-isomerization of retinoids. This is collaboration with Palczewski Lab at UC Irvine.

1. "Catalytic synthesis of 9-cis-retinoids: mechanistic insights"
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/DT/C9DT02189B #!divAbstract

2. "Z-isomerization of retinoids through combination of monochromatic photoisomerization and metal catalysis"
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2019/OB/C9OB01645G #!divAbstract

Catalytic synthesis of 9-cis-retinoids: mechanistic insights - Dalton Transactions (RSC Publishing) The regioselective Z-isomerization of thermodynamically stable all-trans retinoids remains challenging, and ultimately limits the availability of much needed therapeutics for the treatment of human diseases. We present here a novel, straightforward approach for the catalytic Z-isomerization of retin...

Happy to announce the acceptance of three new publications this week. This is really an unusual occurrence, which is even more significant considering how relevant they are. Thanks to everyone:

TITLE: Laboratory-based double X-ray spectrometer for simultaneous X-ray emission and X-ray absorption studies
AUTHORS: Błachucki, Wojciech; Czapla-Masztafiak, Joanna; Sa, Jacinto; Szlachetko, Jakub
JOURNAL: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

TITLE: On-the-fly catalyst modification: strategy to improve catalytic processes selectivity and understanding
AUTHORS: Jacinto Sa & Will J. Medlin
JOURNAL: ChemCatChem

TITLE: Simultaneous Hot Electron and Hole Injection Upon Excitation of Gold Surface Plasmon
AUTHORS: Hattori, Yocefu; Abdellah, Mohamed; Meng, Jie; Zheng, Kaibo; Sa, Jacinto
JOURNAL: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Paper success in which the validity of X-ray spectroscopy studies at XFEL are questioned:
Inception of electronic damage of matter by photon-driven post-ionization mechanisms featured

Structural Dynamics 6, 024901 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5090332

Authors: W. Błachucki, Y. Kayser, J. Czapla-Masztafiak, M. Guo, P. Juranić, M. Kavčič, E. Källman, G. Knopp, M. Lundberg, C. Milne, J. Rehanek, J. Sá, and J. Szlachetko

Inception of electronic damage of matter by photon-driven post-ionization mechanisms “Probe-before-destroy” methodology permitted diffraction and imaging measurements of intact specimens using ultrabright but highly destructive X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) pulses. The methodology takes advantage of XFEL pulses ultrashort duration to outrun the destructive nature of the X-ray...

Success during the 'LI Polish Annual Conference on Catalysis'.

1st prize for the best flash oral: 'Selective flow hydrogenation of nitrocyclohexane' by Emil Kowalewski.

Paper success:
Efficient visible light-driven water oxidation catalysed by an iron(IV) clathrochelate complex

Chem. Commun., 2019, DOI:10.1039/C9CC00229D

Sergii I Shylin, Mariia V. Pavliuk, Luca D'Amario, Fikret Mamedov, Jacinto Sa, Gustav Berggren and Igor O. Fritsky

Paper success:
Morpholine-based buffers activate aerobic photobiocatalysis via spin correlated ion pair formation

Catalysis Science & Technology, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C8CY02524J

Leticia C. P. Gonçalves, Hamid R. Mansouri,
Erick L. Bastos, Mohamed Abdellah, Bruna S. Fadiga, Jacinto Sá, Florian Rudroff and Marko D. Mihovilovic

Press release about our recent work on on-the-fly catalyst accretion
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/iopc-isc120618.php

Polska wersja:http://ichf.edu.pl/press/2018/12/IChF181206a_PL.pdf

Interactive Method to Modify the Size of the Catalyst Nanoparticles Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw have developed an interactive method to modify the size of the catalyst nanoparticles during the flow in microfluidic devices.

Tiltle: Nickel loaded zeolites FAU and MFI: Characterization and activity in waterphase
hydrodehalogenation of TCE
Authors: Karolina A. Taracha, Anna Śrębowata, Emil Kowalewski, Kinga Gołąbek, Aldona Kostuch,
Krzysztof Kruczałaa Vladimir Girmanc Kinga Góra-Marek

Nickel loaded zeolites FAU and MFI: Characterization and activity in water-phase hydrodehalogenation of TCE This work was aimed to investigate the catalytic properties of nickel loaded zeolites Y and ZSM-5 as the catalysts in hydrodechlorination of trichloro…