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Resolving X-Ray Photoelectron Spectra of Ionic Liquids with Difference Spectroscopy (2018)
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Clarke, C. J., Maxwell-Hogg, S., Smith, E. F., Hawker, R. R., Harper, J. B., & Licence, P. (2019). Resolving X-Ray Photoelectron Spectra of Ionic Liquids with Difference Spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(1), 114-123. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cp06701e

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is a powerful element-specific technique to determine the composition and chemical state of all elements in an involatile sample. However, for elements such as carbon, the wide variety of chemical states produce... Read More about Resolving X-Ray Photoelectron Spectra of Ionic Liquids with Difference Spectroscopy.

Surface thermodynamics of hydrocarbon vapors and carbon dioxide adsorption on shales (2018)
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Tang, X. (2019). Surface thermodynamics of hydrocarbon vapors and carbon dioxide adsorption on shales. Fuel, 238, 402-411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2018.10.034

Understanding hydrocarbon vapors and carbon dioxide adsorption mechanism on shales lays the foundation for in situ hydrocarbon resource estimation and enhanced hydrocarbon recovery via carbon dioxide injection. However, surface thermodynamic potentia... Read More about Surface thermodynamics of hydrocarbon vapors and carbon dioxide adsorption on shales.

PdII-Mediated Oxidative Amination for Access to a 9-Azabicyclo[4.2.1]nonane Compound Library and Anatoxin-a (2018)
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Dawood, R. S., Chidipudi, S. R., O'Connor, D. C., Lewis, W., Hamza, D., Pearce, C. A., …Stockman, R. A. (2018). PdII-Mediated Oxidative Amination for Access to a 9-Azabicyclo[4.2.1]nonane Compound Library and Anatoxin-a. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018(40), 5558-5561. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201801209

© 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Intramolecular oxidative amination of readily accessible aminocyclooct-4-enes provides rapid and regioselective access to the 9-azabicyclo[4.2.1]nonane framework characteristic of the natural produc... Read More about PdII-Mediated Oxidative Amination for Access to a 9-Azabicyclo[4.2.1]nonane Compound Library and Anatoxin-a.

Movement of palladium nanoparticles in hollow graphitised nanofibres: the role of migration and coalescence in nanocatalyst sintering during the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction (2018)
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Lodge, R. W., Rance, G. A., Fay, M. W., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2018). Movement of palladium nanoparticles in hollow graphitised nanofibres: the role of migration and coalescence in nanocatalyst sintering during the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction. Nanoscale, https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr05267k

The evolution of individual palladium nanoparticle (PdNP) catalysts, in graphitised nanofibres (GNF), in the liquid-phase Suzuki-Miyaura (SM) reaction has been appraised. The combination of identical location-transmission electron microscopy (IL-TEM)... Read More about Movement of palladium nanoparticles in hollow graphitised nanofibres: the role of migration and coalescence in nanocatalyst sintering during the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction.

Selective reduction and homologation of carbon monoxide by organometallic iron complexes (2018)
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Sharpe, H. R., Geer, A. M., Taylor, L. J., Gridley, B. M., Blundell, T. J., Blake, A. J., …Kays, D. L. (2018). Selective reduction and homologation of carbon monoxide by organometallic iron complexes. Nature Communications, 9, Article 3757. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06242-w

Carbon monoxide is a key C1 feedstock for the industrial production of hydrocarbons, where it is used to make millions of tonnes of chemicals, fuels, and solvents per annum. Many transition metal complexes can coordinate CO2 but the formation of new... Read More about Selective reduction and homologation of carbon monoxide by organometallic iron complexes.

Valorization of lignin waste: high electrochemical capacitance of lignin-derived carbons in aqueous and ionic liquid electrolytes (2018)
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Sangchoom, W., Walsh, D. A., & Mokaya, R. (2018). Valorization of lignin waste: high electrochemical capacitance of lignin-derived carbons in aqueous and ionic liquid electrolytes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(38), (18701-18711). doi:10.1039/c8ta07632d. ISSN 2050-7488

This report describes the utilization of waste lignin-derived activated carbons (LACs) as high-energy/high-power electrode materials for electric double layer capacitors(EDLCs). The influence of carbon-pore structure on the capacitance of the LACs in... Read More about Valorization of lignin waste: high electrochemical capacitance of lignin-derived carbons in aqueous and ionic liquid electrolytes.

Direct correlation of carbon nanotube nucleation and growth with the atomic structure of rhenium nanocatalysts stimulated and imaged by the electron beam (2018)
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Cao, K., Chamberlain, T. W., Biskupek, J., Zoberbier, T., Kaiser, U., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2018). Direct correlation of carbon nanotube nucleation and growth with the atomic structure of rhenium nanocatalysts stimulated and imaged by the electron beam. Nano Letters, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02657

Sub-nanometre Re clusters confined in a single-walled carbon nanotube are activated by the 80 keV electron beam to promote the catalytic growth of a new carbon nanotube. Transmission electron microscopy images the entire process step-by-step, with at... Read More about Direct correlation of carbon nanotube nucleation and growth with the atomic structure of rhenium nanocatalysts stimulated and imaged by the electron beam.

Self-assembly of chiral-at-end diketopyrrolopyrroles: symmetry dependent solution and film optical activity and photovoltaic performanace (2018)
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Hume, P. A., Monks, J. P., Pop, F., Davies, E. S., MacKenzie, R. C., & Amabilino, D. B. (2018). Self-assembly of chiral-at-end diketopyrrolopyrroles: symmetry dependent solution and film optical activity and photovoltaic performanace. Chemistry - A European Journal, 24(54), 14461-14469. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201802610

Chiral thiophene-diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives have been synthesised to investigate the potential of stereochemistry and symmetry as a means of modulating properties by influencing self-assembly of these purely organic materials. In particular, de... Read More about Self-assembly of chiral-at-end diketopyrrolopyrroles: symmetry dependent solution and film optical activity and photovoltaic performanace.

A combined time-resolved infrared and density functional theory study of the lowest excited states of 9-fluorenone and 2-naphthaldehyde (2018)
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Hanson-Heine, M. W., Calladine, J. A., Yang, J., Towrie, M., Horvath, R., Besley, N. A., & George, M. W. (2018). A combined time-resolved infrared and density functional theory study of the lowest excited states of 9-fluorenone and 2-naphthaldehyde. Chemical Physics, 512, 44-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.04.014

© 2018 A combined experimental and theoretical study of the infrared (IR) spectra of 2-naphthaldehyde and 9-fluorenone in their ground and first excited singlet and triplet electronic states is presented. IR studies have also been carried out using s... Read More about A combined time-resolved infrared and density functional theory study of the lowest excited states of 9-fluorenone and 2-naphthaldehyde.

The impact of sulfur functionalisation on nitrogen-based ionic liquid cations (2018)
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Santos, A. R., Hanson-Heine, M. W. D., Besley, N. A., & Licence, P. (2018). The impact of sulfur functionalisation on nitrogen-based ionic liquid cations. Chemical Communications, 54(81), 11403-11406. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc05515g

It has been demonstrated that bonding and interactions within ionic liquids (ILs) can be elegantly tuned by manipulation of structure and the introduction of functional groups. Here we use XPS to investigate the impact of sulfur containing substituen... Read More about The impact of sulfur functionalisation on nitrogen-based ionic liquid cations.