Recent Publications Acknowledging the UCR Center for Catalysis:
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Steven P. Fisher, Scott G. McArthur, Varun Tej, Sarah E. Lee, Allen L. Chan, Isaac Banda, Aaron Gregory, Kevin Berkley, Charlene Tsay, Arnold L. Rheingold, Gregorio Guisado-Barrios, Vincent Lavallo, Strongly Coordinating Ligands To Form Weakly Coordinating Yet Functional Organometallic Anions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b10234, 2019. |
| P. R. Jothi, Y. Zhang, K. Yubuta, D. B. Culver, M. Conley, B. P. T. Fokwa: Abundant Vanadium Diboride with Graphene-like Boron layers for Hydrogen Evolution, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.8b01615, 2019. |
| H. Park, Y. Zhang, E. Lee, P. Shankhari, B. P. T. Fokwa: Designing highly active high current density HER electrocatalysts: Graphene-like boron layer and tungsten as key ingredients in metal diborides, ChemSusChem, DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201901301, 2019. Invited Front Cover |
| Mixed-Oxide Catalysts: The Case of Alumina Addition to Silica-Supported Platinum for the Selective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde, Top. Catal., DOI: 10.1007/s11244-019-01163-4 (2019). INVITED, Special Issue entitled " 6th San Luis Conference on Surfaces, Interfaces and Catalysis." |
| Rodriguez, J.; Culver, D. B.; Conley, M. P. Generation of Phosphonium Sites on Sulfated Zirconium Oxide: Relationship to Brønsted Acid Strength of Surface –OH Sites. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 1484-1488 (2019). |
| Yueqiang Cao, Bo Chen, Jonathan Guerrero-Sánchez, Ilkeun Lee, Xinggui Zhou, Noboru Takeuchi, Francisco Zaera, Controlling Selectivity in Unsaturated Aldehyde Hydrogenation Using Single-Site Alloy Catalysts, ACS Catal., 9, 9150-9157 (2019). |
| Culver, D. B.; Conley, M. P. Activation of C–F Bonds by Electrophilic Organosilicon Sites Supported on Sulfated Zirconia. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 130, 15118-15121 (2018). |
| Huynh, W.; Culver, D. B.; Tafazolian, H.; Conley, M. P. Solid-state 45Sc NMR of Cp*2Sc–X and Cp*2ScX(THF). Dalton Trans., 47, 13063 - 13071 (2018). |
| Culver, D. B.; Huynh, W.; Tafazolian, H.; Ong, T. C.; Conley, M. P. The Beta-Agostic Structure in (C5Me5)2ScCH2CH3: Solid-State NMR Studies of (C5Me5)2Sc–R (R = Me, Ph, Et). Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57, 9250-9253 (2018). |
| Culver, D. B.; Tafazolian, H.; Conley, M. P. A Bulky Pd(II) α-Diimine Catalyst Supported on Sulfated Zirconia for the Polymerization of Ethylene and Copolymerization of Ethylene and Methyl Acrylate. Organometallics, 37, 1001-1006 (2018). |
| B. Seemala, C. M. Cai, R. Kumar, C. E. Wyman, P. Christopher, Effects of Cu-Ni Bimetallic Catalyst Composition and Support on Activity, Selectivity, and Stability for Furfural Conversion to 2-Methyfuran, ACS Sust. Chem. Eng., 6(2), 2152-2161 (2018). |
| Zhihuan Weng, Zhi-hui Chen, Xiangdong Qin, and Francisco Zaera, Sub-Monolayer Control of the Growth of Oxide Films on Mesoporous Materials, J. Mater. Chem. A, 6, 17548-17558 (2018). |
| Zhihuan Weng and Francisco Zaera, Sub-Monolayer Control of Mixed-Oxide Support Composition in Catalysts via Atomic Layer Deposition: Selective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde Promoted by (SiO2-ALD)-Pt/Al2O3, ACS Catal., 8, 8513-8524 (2018). |
| Stavros Karakalos and Francisco Zaera, Monte Carlo Simulations of the Uptake of Chiral Compounds on Solid Surfaces, J. Phys. Chem. C, 122(2), 444–454 (2018). INVITED, Miquel B. Salmeron Festschrift |
| Abigail Feceu, Lauren E. Sangster, David B. C. Martin, Unexpected Alkene Isomerization during Iterative Cross-Coupling To Form Hindered, Electron-Deficient Trienes, Org. Lett., 20(11), 3151–3155 (2018). |
| Francisco Zaera, Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Characterization of Liquid-Solid Interfaces: The Case of Chiral Modification of Catalysts, Surf. Sci., 669, 16-24 (2018). INVITED, Special Issue: Surface Science of Liquid Interfaces. |
| Yujung Dong and Francisco Zaera, Selectivity in Hydrogenation Catalysis with Unsaturated Aldehydes: Parallel versus Sequential Steps, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9, 1301-1306 (2018). |
| Zhihuan Weng, Tianyi Yu, and Francisco Zaera, Synthesis of Solid Catalysts with Spatially Resolved Acidic and Basic Molecular Functionalities, ACS Catal., 8, 2870−2879 (2018). |
| Jinyu Li, Paul Fleurat-Lessard, Francisco Zaera and Françoise Delbecq, Switch in relative stability between cis and trans 2-butene on Pt(111) as a function of experimental conditions: A DFT study, ACS Catal., 8, 3067–3075 (2018). |
| Francisco Zaera, Gold-Titania Catalysts for Low-Temperature Oxidation and Water Splitting, Top. Catal., 61, 336-347 (2018). INVITED, Special Issue Honoring Prof. Cynthia Friend. |
| Zhihuan Weng and Francisco Zaera, Synthesis of Chiral Dendrimer-Encapsulated Nanoparticle (DEN) Catalysts, Top. Catal., 61(9-11), 902-914 (2018). INVITED, Special Issue Honoring Prof. Gabor A. Somorjai |
| Tafazolian, H.; Culver, D. B.; Conley, M. P. A Well-Defined Ni(II) α-Diimine Catalyst Supported on Sulfated Zirconia for Polymerization Catalysis. Organometallics, 36, 2385-2388 (2017). |
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Francisco Zaera, Chirality in Adsorption on Solid Surfaces, Chem. Soc. Rev., 46, 7374-7398 (2017). |
| P. M. Bogie, Y. Lyon, L. R. Holloway, R. R. Julian, R. J. Hooley, Metal-selective coordination and enhanced fluorescence of a self-assembling ligand scaffold, Supramolec. Chem., 29(12), 936-945 (2017). |
| L. DeRita, S. Dai, K. Lopez-Zepeda, N. Pham, G. W. Graham, X. Pan, P. Christopher, Catalyst Architecture for Stable Single Atom Dispersion Enables Site-Specific Spectroscopic and Reactivity Measurements of CO Adsorbed to Pt Atoms, Oxidized Pt Clusters, and Metallic Pt Clusters on TiO2, J. Am. Chem.Soc. 139(40), 14150-14165 (2017). |
| F. Lyu, Y. Bai, Z. Li, W. Xu, Q. Wang, J. Mao, L. Wang, X. Zhang, Y. Yin, Self-Templated Fabrication of CoO–MoO2Nanocages for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution, Adv. Funct. Mater., 27(34), 1702324 (2017). |
| C. Asokan, L. DeRita, P. Christopher, Using probe molecule FTIR spectroscopy to identify and characterize Pt-group metal based single atom catalysts, Chin. J. Catal., 38(9), 1473-1480 (2017). |
| X. Li, Z. Wang, Z. Zhang, G. Yang, M. Jin, Q. Chen, Y. Yin, Construction of Au-Pd alloy shells for enhanced catalytic performance toward alkyne semihydrogenation reactions, Materials Horizons, 4(4), 584-590 (2017). |
| K. Li, N. J. Hogan, M. J. Kale, N. J. Halas, P. Nordlander, P. Christopher, Balancing Near-Field Enhancement, Absorption, and Scattering for Effective Antenna-Reactor Plasmonic Photocatalysis, Nano Lett., 17(6), 3710-3717 (2017). |
| B. Seemala, C. M. Cai, C. E. Wyman, P. Christopher, Support Induced Control of Surface Composition in Cu-Ni/TiO2Catalysts Enables High Yield Co-Conversion of HMF and Furfural to Methylated Furans, ACS Catal., 7(6), 4070-4082 (2017). |
| P. R. Jothi, Y. Zhang, J. P. Scheifers, H. Park, B. P. T. Fokwa: Molybdenum diboride nanoparticles as highly efficient electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 1, 1928–1934 (2017). |
| H. Park, Y. Zhang, P. R. Jothi, J. P. Scheifers, A. Encinas, B. P. T. Fokwa: Graphene- and phosphorene-like boron layers with contrasting activities in highly active Mo2B4 for hydrogen evolution, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139(37), 12915–12918 (2017). |
| Jordan W. Taylor, Alex McSkimming, Camilo F. Guzman, and W. Hill Harman, N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Stabilized Boranthrene as a Metal-Free Platform for the Activation of Small Molecules, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139(32), 11032–11035 (2017). |
| Jordan W. Taylor, Alex McSkimming, Marc-Etienne Moret, and W. Hill Harman, A Molecular Boroauride: A Donor–Acceptor Complex of Anionic Gold, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 56,10413–10417 (2017). VERY IMPORTANT PAPER |
| Francisco Zaera, The Surface Chemistry of Metal-Based Hydrogenation Catalysis, ACS Catal., 7, 4947-4967 (2017). INVITED PERSPECTIVE |
| Yujung Dong and Francisco Zaera, Kinetics of Hydrogen Adsorption during Catalytic Reactions on Transition Metal Surfaces, Catal. Sci. Technol., DOI: 7, 5354-5364 (2017). INVITED, "Catalytic reactivity of surfaces: in recognition of Francois Gault" themed issue. |
| Yufei Ni, Alexander D. Gordon, Florisa Tanicala, and Francisco Zaera, Correlation Between Chiral Modifier Adsorption and Enantioselectivity in Hydrogenation Catalysis, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 56(27), 7963-7966 (2017). |
| Stavros Karakalos and Francisco Zaera, Monte Carlo Simulations of the Uptake of Chiral Compounds on Solid Surfaces, J. Phys. Chem., 122(2), 444–454 (2017). INVITED, Miquel B. Salmeron Festschrift |
| Dana R. Chambers, Raymond E. Sullivan, and David B. C. Martin, Synthesis and Characterization of Alkoxycarbonyl Cobalt Complexes via Direct Carbonylation Methods, Organometallics, 36(8), 1630–1639 (2017). |
| H. Park, A. Encinas, J. P. Scheifers, Y. Zhang, B. P. T. Fokwa, Boron-dependency of molybdenum borides electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56(20), 5575–5578 (2017). HOT PAPER |
| Francisco Zaera, Use of Molecular Beams for Kinetic Measurements of Chemical Reactions on Solid Surfaces, Surf. Sci. Rep., 72, 59-104 (2017). INVITED |
| Juan Simonovis, Aashani Tillekaratne and Francisco Zaera, The Role of Carbonaceous Deposits in Hydrogenation Catalysis Revisited, J. Phys. Chem. C, 21(4), 2285–2293 (2017). |
| Francisco Zaera, The Long and Winding Road to Catalysis, Nature, 541, 37-38 (2017). INVITED, NEWS AND VIEWS. |
| Matthew J. Kale, Dillon Gidcumb, Franklin J. Gulian, Steven P. Miller, Christopher H. Clark, Phillip Christopher, “Evaluation of Pt Catalysts for Naval Submarine Pollution Control”, Applied Catalysis B, 203, 533-540 (2017). |
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Aashani Tilekaratne, Juan Pablo Simonovis, Francisco Zaera, Ethylene Hydrogenation Catalysis on Pt(111) Single Crystal Surfaces Studied Using Mass Spectrometry and In-Situ Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy, Surf. Sci., 652, 134-141 (2016). INVITED, Special Issue entitled “Insights into Surface Phenomena: In Honor of John T. Yates, Jr.” |
| John C. Matsubu, Leo DeRita, Shuyi Zhang, George W. Graham, Xiaoqing Pan, Phillip Christopher, Adsorbate-Mediated Strong Metal-Support Interactions in Oxide-Supported Rh Catalysts, Nature Chemistry, 9,120–127 (2016). |
| Mettry, M.; Moehlig, M.P.; Gill, A.D.; Hooley, R.J. Alkane Oxidation Catalyzed by a Self-Folded Multi-Iron Complex, Supramol. Chem. 29(2), 120-128 (2016). |
| Holloway, L.R.; McGarraugh, H.H.; Young, M.C.; Sontising, W.; Beran, G.J.O.; Hooley, R.J. “Structural Switching in Self-Assembled Metal-Ligand Helicate Complexes via Ligand-Centered Reactions” Chem. Sci, 7, 4423-4427 (2016). |
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Yujung Dong, Maryam Ebrahimi, Aashani Tillekaratne, Juan Pablo Simonovis, and Francisco Zaera, Hydrogenation vs. H-D Isotope Scrambling during the Conversion of Ethylene with Hydrogen/Deuterium Catalyzed by Platinum under Single-Collision Conditions, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, 19248-19258 (2016). |
| Juan Simonovis and Francisco Zaera, Abrupt Increase in Hydrogen Diffusion on Transition-Metal Surfaces During Hydrogenation Catalysis, Chem. Sci., 7, 4660-4666 (2016). |
| Yujung Dong, Maryam Ebrahimi, Aashani Tillekaratne, and Francisco Zaera, Direct Addition Mechanism during the Catalytic Hydrogenation of Olefins over Platinum Surfaces, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 7, 2439-2443 (2016). |
| Junghyun Hong, Stavros Karakalos, and Francisco Zaera, Changes in the Enantiomeric Composition of Chiral Mixtures Upon Adsorption on a Non-Chiral Surface, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 55(21), 6225–6228 (2016). |
| Yoon Jae Lee, Ji Bong Joo, Yadong Yin, and Francisco Zaera, Evaluation of the Effective Photoexcitation Distances in the Photocatalytic Production of H2 from Water using Au@Void@TiO2 Yolk-Shell Nanostructures, ACS Energy Lett., 1 (2016) 52-56. INVITED, Inaugural Issue. |
| Ilkeun Lee, Ji Bong Joo, Yadong Yin, and Francisco Zaera, Au@Void@TiO2 Yolk-Shell Nanostructures as Catalysts for the Promotion of Oxidation Reactions at Cryogenic Temperatures, Surf. Sci., 648, 150-155 (2016). INVITED, Special Issue honoring Gabor A. Somorjai. |
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Tana Tana, Qi Xiao, Yiming Huang, Sarina Sarina, Phillip Christopher, Jianfeng Jia, Haishun Wu, Huaiyong Zhu, Non-plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles as Visible Light Photocatalysts for Selective Oxidation of Aliphatic Alcohols With Molecular Oxygen at Near Ambient Conditions, Chem. Comm., 52, 11567-11570 (2016). |
| Talin Avanesian, Gabriel S. Gusmao, Phillip Christopher*, “Mechanism of CO2 reduction by H2 on Ru(0001) and general selectivity descriptors for late-transition metal catalysts”, J. Catalysis, 343, 86-96 (2016). |
| John C. Matsubu, Eric T. Lin, Kyle L. Gunther, Krassimir N. Bozhilov, Yibo Jiang, Phillip Christopher, Critical role of interfacial effects on the reactivity of semiconductor-cocatalyst junctions of photocatalytic oxygen evolution from water, Catalysis Science and Technology, 6, 6836-6844 (2016). |
| Matthew J. Kale, Phillip Christopher, Utilizing Quantitative in Situ FTIR Spectroscopy To Identify Well-Coordinated Pt Atoms as the Active Site for CO oxidation on Al2O3-Supported Pt Catalysts, ACS Catalysis, 6, 5599-5609 (2016). |
| Talin Avanesian, Phillip Christopher, Scaled Degree of Rate Control: Identifying Elementary Steps that Control Differences in Performance of Transition-Metal Catalysts, ACS Catalysis, 6, 5268-5272 (2016). |
| Ian Wheeldon, Shelley D. Minteer, Scott Banta, Scott Calabrese Barton, Plamen Atanassov and Matthew Sigman, Substrate channelling as an approach to cascade reactions, Nat. Chem., 8, 299–309 (2016). |
| Aashani Tillekaratne, Juan Pablo Simonovis, Francisco Zaera, Ethylene hydrogenation catalysis on Pt(111) single-crystal surfaces studied by using mass spectrometry and in situ infrared absorption spectroscopy, Surf. Sci., 652, 134-141 (2016). |
| Joo, J. B.; Liu, H.; Lee, Y. J.; Dahl, M.; Yu, H.; Zaera, F.; Yin, Y. Tailored Synthesis of C@TiO2 Yolk-Shell Nanostructures for Highly Efficient Photocatalysis, Catal. Today, 2016, 264, 261-269 (2016) |
| Zhao, H.; Wang, D.; Gao, C.; Liu, H.; Han, L. Yin, Y. Ultrafine Platinum/Iron Oxide Nanoconjugates Confined in Silica Nanoshells for Highly-Durable Catalytic Oxidation J. Mater. Chem. A, 4, 1366-1372 (2016). |
| Wang, X.; Lu, Q.; Wang, X.; Joo, J.; Dahl, M.; Liu, B.; Gao, C.; Yin, Y. Photocatalytic Surface-Initiated Polymerization on TiO2 toward Well-Defined Composite Nanostructures, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 8, 538-546 (2016). |
| Liu, X.; Cui, X.; Liu, Y.; Yin, Y. Stabilization of Ultrafine Metal Nanocatalysts on Thin Carbon Sheets, Nanoscale, 7, 18320 -18326 (2015). |
| Wang, M.; Hu, Y.; Han, J.; Guo, R.; Xiong, H.; Yin, Y. TiO2/NiO Hybrid Shells: p-n Junction Photocatalysts with Enhanced Activity under Visible Light, J. Mater. Chem. A, 3, 20727-20735 (2015). |
| Liu, Y.; Tang, A.; Zhang, Q.; Yin, Y. Seed-Mediated Growth of Anatase TiO2 Nanocrystals with Core-Antenna Structures for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 11327–11339 (2015). |
| Jess Estrada, Sarah E. Lee, Scott G. McArthur, Ahmad El-Hellani, Fook S. Tham, Vincent Lavallo, Resisting B–H oxidative addition: The divergent reactivity of the o-carborane and carba-closo-dodecaborate ligand substituents, J. Organometal. Chem., 798 Part 1, 214-217 (2015). |
| Alex McSkimming and W. Hill Harman, A Terminal N2 Complex of High-Spin Iron(I) in a Weak, Trigonal Ligand Field , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137 (28), 8940–8943 (2015). |
| Jess Estrada, David H. Woen, Fook S. Tham, Garret M. Miyake, and Vincent Lavallo, Synthesis and Reactivity of a Zwitterionic Palladium Allyl Complex Supported by a Perchlorinated Carboranyl Phosphine, Inorg. Chem., 54 (11), 5142–5144 (2015). |
| Yang Li, Francisco Zaera, Sensitivity of the glycerol oxidation reaction to the size and shape of the platinum nanoparticles in Pt/SiO2 catalysts, J. Catal., 326, 116-126 (2015). |
| Yang Li and Francisco Zaera, Factors Affecting Activity and Selectivity in the Oxidation of Glycerol Promoted by Platinum Catalysts, Catal. Sci. Technol., 5, 3773-3781 (2015). |
| Yang Li and Francisco Zaera, Sensitivity of the Glycerol Oxidation Reaction to the Size and Shape of the Platinum Nanoparticles in Pt/SiO2 Catalysts, J. Catal., 326, 116-126, (2015). |