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Probing the carbon-hydrogen activation of alkanes following photolysis of Tp’Rh(CNR)(carbodiimide): a computational and time-resolved infrared spectroscopic study (2017)
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Guan, J., Wriglesworth, A., Zhong Sun, X., Brothers, E. N., Zarić, S. D., Evans, M., …George, M. W. (2017). Probing the carbon-hydrogen activation of alkanes following photolysis of Tp’Rh(CNR)(carbodiimide): a computational and time-resolved infrared spectroscopic study. Journal of the American Chemical Society, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b12152

Carbon–hydrogen bond activation reactions of alkanes by Tp’Rh(CNR) (Tp’ = Tp = trispyrazolylborate or Tp* = tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)borate) were followed by timeresolved infrared spectroscopy (TRIR) in the υ(CNR) and υ(BH) spectral regions on Tp*R... Read More about Probing the carbon-hydrogen activation of alkanes following photolysis of Tp’Rh(CNR)(carbodiimide): a computational and time-resolved infrared spectroscopic study.

Thionated naphthalene diimides: tuneable chromophores for applications in photoactive dyads (2017)
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Pearce, N., Davies, E. S., Horvath, R., Pfeiffer, C. R., Sun, X., Lewis, W., …Champness, N. R. (2018). Thionated naphthalene diimides: tuneable chromophores for applications in photoactive dyads. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cp06952a

Varying the degree of thionation of a series of naphthalene diimide (NDI) and naphthalic imides (NI) phenothiazine dyad systems afford a systematic approach for tuning of the system’s donor-acceptor energy gap. Each dyad was compared to model NDI/NI... Read More about Thionated naphthalene diimides: tuneable chromophores for applications in photoactive dyads.

The alteration of intra-ligand donor-acceptor interactions through torsional connectivity in substituted Re-dppz complexes (2017)
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Adams, B., Shillito, G. E., Salm, H. V. D., Horvath, R., Larsen, C. B., Sun, . X., …Gordon, K. C. (2017). The alteration of intra-ligand donor-acceptor interactions through torsional connectivity in substituted Re-dppz complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(21), 12967-12977. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01710

The ground and excited properties of a series of [ReCl(CO)3(dppz)] complexes with substituted donor groups have been investigated. Alteration of donor-acceptor communication through modulation of torsional angle and the number and nature of the donor... Read More about The alteration of intra-ligand donor-acceptor interactions through torsional connectivity in substituted Re-dppz complexes.

Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory (2017)
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Lee, D. S., Amara, Z., Clark, C. A., Xu, Z., Kakimpa, B., Morvan, H. P., …George, M. W. (2017). Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory. Organic Process Research and Development, 21(7), 1042-1050. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.7b00153

© 2017 American Chemical Society. We report the construction and use of a vortex reactor which uses a rapidly rotating cylinder to generate Taylor vortices for continuous flow thermal and photochemical reactions. The reactor is designed to operate un... Read More about Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory.

Photoaquation mechanism of hexacyanoferrate(II) ions: ultrafast 2D UV and transient visible and IR spectroscopies (2017)
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Reinhard, M., Auböck, G., Besley, N. A., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Hanson-Heine, M. W., …Chergui, M. (2017). Photoaquation mechanism of hexacyanoferrate(II) ions: ultrafast 2D UV and transient visible and IR spectroscopies. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(21), 7335-7347. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b02769

Ferrous iron(II) hexacyanide in aqueous solutions is known to undergo photoionization and photoaquation reactions depending on the excitation wavelength. To investigate this wavelength dependence, we implemented ultrafast two-dimensional UV transient... Read More about Photoaquation mechanism of hexacyanoferrate(II) ions: ultrafast 2D UV and transient visible and IR spectroscopies.

Continuous niobium phosphate catalysed Skraup reaction for quinoline synthesis from solketal (2017)
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Jin, J., Guidi, S., Amara, Z., Selva, M., George, M. W., & Poliakoff, M. (2017). Continuous niobium phosphate catalysed Skraup reaction for quinoline synthesis from solketal. Green Chemistry, 19(10), 2439-2447. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6GC03140D

Solketal is derived from the reaction of acetone with glycerol, a by-product product of the biodiesel industry. We report here the continuous reaction of solketal with anilines over a solid acid niobium phosphate (NbP), for the continuous generation... Read More about Continuous niobium phosphate catalysed Skraup reaction for quinoline synthesis from solketal.

Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations of non-resonant and resonant X-ray emission spectroscopy (2017)
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Hanson-Heine, M. W., George, M. W., & Besley, N. A. (2017). Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations of non-resonant and resonant X-ray emission spectroscopy. Journal of Chemical Physics, 146(9), Article 094106. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4977178

The accuracy of non-resonant and resonant (resonant inelastic X-ray scattering) X-ray emission spectra simulated based upon Kohn-Sham density functional theory is assessed. Accurate non-resonant X-ray emission spectra with the correct energy scale ar... Read More about Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations of non-resonant and resonant X-ray emission spectroscopy.

Investigating interfacial electron transfer in dye-sensitized NiO using vibrational spectroscopy (2017)
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Black, F. A., Clark, C. A., Summers, G. H., Clark, I. P., Towrie, M., Penfold, T. J., …Gibson, E. A. (2017). Investigating interfacial electron transfer in dye-sensitized NiO using vibrational spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(11), 7877-7885. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cp05712h

Understanding what influences the formation and lifetime of charge-separated states is key to developing photoelectrochemical devices. This paper describes the use of time-resolved infrared absorption spectroscopy (TRIR) to determine the structure an... Read More about Investigating interfacial electron transfer in dye-sensitized NiO using vibrational spectroscopy.

Continuous N-alkylation reactions of amino alcohols using ?-Al2O3 and supercritical CO2: unexpected formation of cyclic ureas and urethanes by reaction with CO2 (2017)
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Streng, E. S., Lee, D. S., George, M. W., & Poliakoff, M. (2017). Continuous N-alkylation reactions of amino alcohols using ?-Al2O3 and supercritical CO2: unexpected formation of cyclic ureas and urethanes by reaction with CO2. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 13, https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.13.36

The use of ?-Al2O3 as a heterogeneous catalyst in scCO2, has be successfully applied to the amination of alcohols for the synthesis of N-alkylated heterocycles. The optimal reaction conditions (temperature and substrate flow rate) were determined usi... Read More about Continuous N-alkylation reactions of amino alcohols using ?-Al2O3 and supercritical CO2: unexpected formation of cyclic ureas and urethanes by reaction with CO2.