Electrocatalytic behavior of TEMPO derivative SAMs on gold has been studied in the presence of benzyl alcohol. The results demonstrate that interfacial activity of the SAMs can be enhanced by diluting the TEMPO moiety with an alkyl passive matrix. The absolute catalytic activity exhibits a maximum for an intermediate value of the surface coverage of catalytic centers. The most significant featu...

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were carried out to study the nucleation and growth mechanism of Ru clusters on the TiO2(101) surface by using supported Run (n = 1−10, 20, 22) cluster models to understand the metal−support interaction and the resulting catalytic performance toward CO oxidation. The results show that the Run cluster prefers a 3D geometry when n ≥ 4 and that the Ru−T...

We present a novel heterogeneous Fenton-like catalyst of LiFePO4 (LFP). LFP has been widely used as an electrode material of a lithium ion battery, but we observed that commercial LFP (LFP-C) could act as a good Fenton-like catalyst to decompose rhodamine 6G. The catalytic activity of LFP-C microparticles was much higher than a popular catalyst, magnetite nanoparticles. Furthermore, we found th...

Titanium(IV)-mediated reactions between primary amines and secondary carboxamides exhibit different outcomes, amidine formation versus transamidation, depending on the identity of the TiIV complex used and the reaction conditions employed. The present study probes the origin of this divergent behavior. We find that stoichiometric TiIV, either Cp*TiIV complexes or Ti(NMe2)4, promotes formation o...

An alumina supported Co/Ni catalyst was prepared by sol-gel procedure to study the catalytic behavior during Fischer-Tropsch synthesis in a fixed-bed reactor. The effect of CO conversion (10-50%) on hydrocarbon product distribution (CH4, C5+ and C2-C4 olefin selectivities) was studied. Selectivity for CH4 decreased, while those of C5+<...