Projects

Since the Industrial Revolution, water has served as a critical indicator of human activity and its environmental impact. As industrial activities intensified, urbanization followed, leading to an increase in domestic sewage and runoff from urban areas. The advent of new chemicals designed to improve the quality of life, began appearing in water bodies, often in trace amounts but with potentially significant effects on ...

C-H Activation allows for a more cost-effective and sustainable functionalization of aromatics. Its industrial implementation is however hampered by a low regioselectivity, by the use of costly stoichiometric oxidants, or by the hazardous use of pressurized oxygen. In this proposal, we build upon our previous discovery of shape-selectivity in the oxidative arene-arene coupling, catalyzed by Pd-zeolites. The zeolite-coordinated Pd is capable ...

The common synthetic chemistry approaches to obtain value-added organic products and functionalities are of great industrial relevance. However, to date, mostly traditional thermal reactions involving harsh conditions, complex metal-based catalysts, and a large bulk of solvents are practised resulting in substantial catalytic and energy waste with an impending financial burden on the end-users. Electrification of the industrial synthetic ...

The work describes the unique use of electrochemical energy (electrons) as reagents in chemical
reactions. This will be achieved through interactions with metal centers capable of accepting and
donating electrons. This ability to shuffle electrons at the metal center is the foundation of reactivity
of these metals enabling interactions with reagents that lead to bond forming events.
I will focus on a metal that is familiar to ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline nanoporous materials that consist of inorganic metal-containing nodes connected by polytopic organic linkers. MOFs are promising materials for novel applications in various industries because of their high specific surface area, synthetic flexibility and tunable structure-property relationships. For many application areas, such as catalysis, molecular separation and gas storage, ...

Since its recognition as an enabling tool to form challenging C–C and C–heteroatom bonds under mild and sustainable conditions, photoredox catalysis has been in the spotlight within the synthetic community. As a consequence, the interest in developing novel synthetic strategies has spiked together with the need to define suitable technologies to overcome scale-up issues dictated by the Bouguer–Beer–Lambert law. In this context, ...