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Glass wool: a novel support for heterogeneous catalysis (2018)
Journal Article
Elhage, A., Wang, B., Marina, N., Marin, M. L., Cruz, M., Lanterna, A. E., & Scaiano, J. C. (in press). Glass wool: a novel support for heterogeneous catalysis. Chemical Science, 9(33), 6844-6852. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sc02115e

Heterogeneous catalysis presents significant advantages over homogeneous catalysis such as ease of separation and reuse of the catalyst. Here we show that a very inexpensive, manageable and widely available material – glass wool – can act as a cataly... Read More about Glass wool: a novel support for heterogeneous catalysis.

Biocompatibility and photo-induced antibacterial activity of lignin-stabilized noble metal nanoparticles (2018)
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Rocca, D. M., Vanegas, J. P., Fournier, K., Becerra, M. C., Scaiano, J. C., & Lanterna, A. E. (2018). Biocompatibility and photo-induced antibacterial activity of lignin-stabilized noble metal nanoparticles. RSC Advances, 8(70), 40454-40463. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ra08169g

One-pot thermal and photochemical syntheses of lignin-doped silver and gold nanoparticles were developed and their antimicrobial properties were studied against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The nature of the lignin as well as the metal... Read More about Biocompatibility and photo-induced antibacterial activity of lignin-stabilized noble metal nanoparticles.

How Fast Can Thiols Bind to the Gold Nanoparticle Surface? (2018)
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Bard, A., Rondon, R., Marquez, D. T., Lanterna, A. E., & Scaiano, J. C. (2018). How Fast Can Thiols Bind to the Gold Nanoparticle Surface?. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 94(6), 1109-1115. https://doi.org/10.1111/php.13010

Kinetics of gold nanoparticle surface modification with thiols can take more than one hour for completion. 7‐mercapto‐4‐methylcoumarin can be used to follow the process by fluorescence spectroscopy and serves as a convenient molecular probe to determ... Read More about How Fast Can Thiols Bind to the Gold Nanoparticle Surface?.

Remarkable effect of the dithiafulvene structures on their capacity as reducing agents: Influence of conjugated thiocarbonyl group (2018)
Journal Article
Lanterna, A. E., Torresan, M. F., Iglesias, R. A., Coronado, E. A., & Granados, A. M. (2019). Remarkable effect of the dithiafulvene structures on their capacity as reducing agents: Influence of conjugated thiocarbonyl group. Applied Surface Science, 465, 1061-1065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.09.243

The use of dithiafulvene (DTF) derivative compounds having strong electron donating properties as reducing agents to obtain noble metal nanoparticles (PdNP, AgNP, AuNP) is demonstrated. The resulting oxidized DTF product was characterized by spectroe... Read More about Remarkable effect of the dithiafulvene structures on their capacity as reducing agents: Influence of conjugated thiocarbonyl group.

Expanding the Color Space in the Two-Color Heterogeneous Photocatalysis of Ullmann C–C Coupling Reactions (2018)
Journal Article
Marina, N., Lanterna, A. E., & Scaiano, J. C. (2018). Expanding the Color Space in the Two-Color Heterogeneous Photocatalysis of Ullmann C–C Coupling Reactions. ACS Catalysis, 8(8), 7593-7597. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b02026

The Ullmann reaction can be heterogeneously photocatalyzed by UV excitation of Pd@TiO2. While a similar dose of visible light does not initiate the reaction, combination with UV light enhances activity and selectivity toward cross-combination product... Read More about Expanding the Color Space in the Two-Color Heterogeneous Photocatalysis of Ullmann C–C Coupling Reactions.

Selective Photoinduced Antibacterial Activity of Amoxicillin-Coated Gold Nanoparticles: From One-Step Synthesis to in Vivo Cytocompatibility (2018)
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Silvero C., M. J., Rocca, D. M., de la Villarmois, E. A., Fournier, K., Lanterna, A. E., Pérez, M. F., Becerra, M. C., & Scaiano, J. C. (2018). Selective Photoinduced Antibacterial Activity of Amoxicillin-Coated Gold Nanoparticles: From One-Step Synthesis to in Vivo Cytocompatibility. ACS Omega, 3(1), 1220-1230. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.7b01779

Photoinduced antibacterial gold nanoparticles were developed as an alternative for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Thanks to the amoxicillin coating, they possess high in vivo stability, selectivity for the bacteria wall, a good renal... Read More about Selective Photoinduced Antibacterial Activity of Amoxicillin-Coated Gold Nanoparticles: From One-Step Synthesis to in Vivo Cytocompatibility.

Light-Induced Sonogashira C–C Coupling under Mild Conditions Using Supported Palladium Nanoparticles (2018)
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Elhage, A., Lanterna, A. E., & Scaiano, J. C. (2018). Light-Induced Sonogashira C–C Coupling under Mild Conditions Using Supported Palladium Nanoparticles. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 6(2), 1717-1722. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b02992

The Sonogashira reaction can easily be photocatalyzed by supported palladium nanoparticles. Herein, we demonstrate that the direct excitation of PdNPs can catalyze the C–C coupling between different aryl iodides and acetylenes under very mild conditi... Read More about Light-Induced Sonogashira C–C Coupling under Mild Conditions Using Supported Palladium Nanoparticles.