Caratelli, Chiara; Hajek, J.; García Cirujano, Francisco; Warroquier, M.; Llabrés i Xamena, Francesc Xavier; Van Speybroeck, Veronique(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] Zirconium terephthalate UiO-66 type metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are known to be highly active, stable and reusable catalysts for the esterification of carboxylic acids with alcohols. Moreover, when defects are ...
Boronat Zaragoza, Mercedes; Laursen, Siris Odin; Leyva Perez, Antonio; Oliver Meseguer, Judit; Cómbita Merchán, Diego Fernando; Corma Canós, Avelino(Elsevier, 2014-06)
The mechanism of alkyne homocoupling over gold nanoparticles and clusters, isolated and supported on
CeO2, has been theoretically investigated by means of periodic DFT calculations. The theoretical study
indicates that ...
Yanagida, Shozo; Matsumura, Takeko(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-10-15)
[EN] Under irradiance of 1kW-MW, nickel oxide (Ni(II)O, 25 gr)) can heat up to 1,300°C in 6 min, while ferric oxide (Fe(III)2O3, 25gr) up to 88°C in 30 min. Since Ni(II) and Fe(III) have unpaired electron (spin) of respective ...
[EN] A frontier challenge in single-atom (SA) catalysis is the design of fully inorganic sites capable of emulating the high reaction selectivity traditionally exclusive of organometallic counterparts in homogeneous ...
Li, Chengeng; Vidal Moya, José Alejandro; Miguel, Pablo J.; Dedecek, Jiri; Boronat Zaragoza, Mercedes; Corma Canós, Avelino(American Chemical Society, 2018-08)
[EN] Controlling the location of acid sites in zeolites can have a great effect on catalysis. In this work we face the objective of directing the location of AI into the 10R channels of ZSM-5 by taking advantage of the ...
[EN] Integration of Shift-and-Invert Parallel Spectral Transformation (SIPs) eigensolver (as implemented in the SLEPc library) into an ab initio molecular dynamics package, SIESTA, is described. The effectiveness of the ...
[EN] Despite the intense investigation on the NH3-SCR-NOx reaction mechanism catalyzed by small pore Cu-CHA zeolites, neither the rate-determining step of the process nor the exact nature of the active sites under reaction ...
[EN] The interaction of small molecules with acid-base and redox centers in small Ce21O42 nanoparticles has been theoretically investigated using the DFT + U approach with the PW91 functional and U = 0.2 and 4 eV, in order ...
[EN] The light olefin product distribution of the methanol-to-olefin (MTO) reaction catalyzed by acid zeolites and zeotypes depends on the nature of the entrapped hydrocarbon pool species that act as co-catalysts. The ...
Busó-Rogero, Carlos; Ferre-Vilaplana, Adolfo; Herrero, Enrique; Feliu, Juan M.(Elsevier, 2019-01)
[EN] The formic acid oxidation reaction has been studied in concentrated perchloric acid solutions (up to 9.14M (60%)) on the Pt (111) surface to explore the relationships between interfacial properties and kinetics. It ...
Fernández Villanueva, Estefanía(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-01-20)
[ES] Dado su tamaño subnanométrico, los clusters metálicos están regidos por el confinamiento cuántico, lo que les hace más "moleculares" y menos "metálicos". En consecuencia, manifiestan propiedades que difieren con ...
Ferre Vilaplana, Adolfo; Perales Rondón, Juan Víctor; Feliu, Juan M.; Herrero, Enrique(American Chemical Society, 2015-02)
The engineered search for new catalysts requires a deep knowledge about reaction mechanisms. Here, with the support of a combination of computational and experimental results, the oxidation mechanism of formic acid on ...
Domingo, Luis R.; Pérez, Patricia; Sáez-Cases, José Antonio(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013)
[EN] Building upon our recent studies devoted to the bonding changes in polar reactions [RSC Advances, 2012, 2, 1334 and Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 3841], we propose herein two new electrophilic, P-k(+), and nucleophilic, ...
Boronat Zaragoza, Mercedes; Corma Canós, Avelino(American Chemical Society, 2019-02)
[EN] Based on theoretical calculations of CO, NH3, and pyridine adsorption at different sites in MOR and MFI zeolites, we analyze how confinement effects influence the measurement of acidity based on the interaction of ...