Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Alvaro Rodríguez, Maria Mercedes; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2011-04-14)
[EN] Aerobic oxidation of cyclooctane to its corresponding ol/one mixture at atmospheric pressure and in the liquid phase is efficiently promoted by an Fe(BTC) (BTC=1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate) metal-organic framework, ...
Navalón Oltra, Sergio; Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Alvaro Rodríguez, Maria Mercedes; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(American Chemical Society, 2014-06-25)
[EN] Carbon materials derived from biomass are considered paradigmatic examples of sustainability.6,7 Other factors besides sustainability that may also favor carbon-based versus inorganic materials as catalysts are economic ...
Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2014-09)
[EN] Cascade or tandem reactions where two or more individual reactions are carried out in one pot constitute a clear example of process intensification, targeting the maximization of spatial and temporal productivity with ...
Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012)
[EN] The present review describes the use of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as porous matrices to embed metal nanoparticles (MNPs) and occasionally metal oxide clusters, which are subsequently used as heterogeneous ...
Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Asiri, Abdullah M.; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)
[EN] Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) having a large surface area and porosity as well as a high density of transition metals are increasingly used as heterogeneous catalysts for organic reactions. However, one of the main ...
Mikami, Yusuke; Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Alvaro Rodríguez, Maria Mercedes; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013)
[EN] This article reviews some of the compelling evidence showing that colloidal gold nanoparticles without any solid support exhibit intrinsic catalytic activity for some of the typical gold-catalyzed reactions including ...
Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Alvaro Rodríguez, Maria Mercedes; Concepción Heydorn, Patricia; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Elsevier, 2011-06-10)
In contrast to Fe(BTC) (BTC: 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate), the crystal structure of Cu3(BTC)2, a commercial metal organic framework widely used as solid catalyst, collapses when contacted with thiols under mild reaction ...
Opanasenko, Maksym; Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Shamzhy, Mariya; Nachtigall, Petr; Horacek, Michal; García Gómez, Hermenegildo; Cejka, Jiri(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013)
[EN] The catalytic behavior of metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs) CuBTC and FeBTC was investigated in Knoevenagel condensation of cyclohexane carbaldehyde and benzaldehyde with active methylene compounds and compared with ...
Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Asiri, Abdullah M.; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Elsevier, 2016-06-02)
[EN] A well known copper based-metal organic framework (MOF), namely Cu-3(BTC)(2), is a suitable heterogeneous catalyst to promote the oxidative room-temperature hydroxylation of arylboronic acids to the corresponding ...
Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Alvaro Rodríguez, Maria Mercedes; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Springer Verlag, 2015-08)
[EN] Cu-3(BTC)(2) deactivates by deterioration of its crystal structure during the use of this metal organic framework as catalyst in the synthesis of 2-phenylquinoxaline from phenacylbromide and o-phenylenediamine at room ...
[EN] In the present study we have selected three different condensation reactions as model reactions, namely the hydroxylalkylation of anisole by paraformaldehyde to bis(methoxyphenyl)-methane, the Pechmann condensation ...
Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Alvaro Rodríguez, Maria Mercedes; Corma Canós, Avelino; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011)
[EN] This perspective article is aimed at providing a comparison of similarities and dissimilarities between the catalytic properties of zeolites and metal organic frameworks (MOFs). In the first part of the paper, we ...
Krap, Cristina P.; Newby, Ruth; Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; García Gómez, Hermenegildo; Cebula, Izabela; Easun, Timothy L.; Savage, Mathew; Eyley, Jennifer E.; Gao, Shan; Blake, Alexander J.; Lewis, William; Beton, Peter H.; Warren, Mark R.; Allan, David R.; Frogley, Mark D.; Tang, Chiu C.; Cinque, Gianfelice; Yang, Sihai; Schroeder, Martin(American Chemical Society, 2016-02-01)
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are usually synthesized using a single type of metal ion, and MOFs containing mixtures of different metal ions are of great interest and represent a methodology to enhance and tune materials ...
DHAKSHINAMOORTHY, AMARAJOTHI; Asiri, Abdullah; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(American Chemical Society, 2019-02-01)
[EN] Cross-coupling reactions catalyzed by transition metals are currently among the most widely used transformations in organic synthesis. In most of these reactions, the coupling involves the reaction of two complementary ...
Navalón Oltra, Sergio; Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Alvaro Rodríguez, Maria Mercedes; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
[EN] The Fenton reaction is widely used for remediation of waste water and for the degradation of organic pollutants in water. Currently, there is considerable interest to convert the classical Fenton reaction, which ...
Navalón Oltra, Sergio; Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Alvaro Rodríguez, Maria Mercedes; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Elsevier, 2016)
[EN] The catalytic activity of metal nanoparticles (MNPs) is highly dependent on the nature of the support. In addition to the role of particle size stabilization in decreasing the spontaneous growth of small MNPs, the ...
[EN] Global warming due to greenhouse gases is a major current environmental threat. In today¿s world those applicable technologies which convert CO2 into valuable and environmentally friendly fuels and chemicals are of ...
Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Opanasenko, Maksym; Cejka, Jiri; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013)
[EN] This review focuses on the use of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) as catalysts for the synthesis of fine chemicals. While petrochemistry is characterized by gas phase reactions, in which MOFs cannot compete with robust ...
Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Navalón Oltra, Sergio; Asiri, Abdullah M.; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020-01-04)
[EN] Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are widely used as solid catalysts in the liquid phase under batch mode conditions. Moving towards the development of industrial processes, data of the performance of MOFs under continuous ...
[EN] This review summarizes the use of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) as solid catalysts for condensation reactions. After an introductory section, in which condensation reactions are generally presented, a list of the ...