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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · 3d

Our work on the elucidation of g-alumina surface through multinuclear NMR has recently been highlighted in the AMPERE bulletin; congrats to Domenico for being granted the AMPERE Travel Award.
www.ampere-society.org/bulletins/Am...

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats to Colin and other awardees of the Talent Program of Catalysis and Sustainabile Chemistry prizes sponsored by
Clariant. @ethz.ch

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · 14d

Yesterday, Anna, Enzo and Domenico delivered their public presentation. Topics included the study of chlorinated materials with NQR; advanced microscopy of supported catalysts and NMR of metal centers. One further step before their PhD defence. Congratulations!

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Sep 2

Friday, September 12, noon CEST / 6 am EDT, Konstantin Ivanov Seminar, Christophe Copéret @coperetgroup.bsky.social ETH Zurich sites.google.com/view/nmr-sem... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

ICONS Series

Konstantin Ivanov intercontinental magnetic resonance seminar series started on April 8, 2020. It organises seminars on a range of topics in magnetic resonance covering NMR, EPR, hyperpolarisation, co...

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jul 16

NMR Signatures of Transition-Metal Nuclei: From Local Environments and Electronic Structures to Reactivity Descriptors in Molecular and Heterogeneous Catalysis | JACS Au pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

NMR Signatures of Transition-Metal Nuclei: From Local Environments and Electronic Structures to Reactivity Descriptors in Molecular and Heterogeneous Catalysis

This Perspective summarizes the current state of the art in understanding the local environments of metal sites across homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts by means of solid-state nuclear magnetic ...

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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · Jul 14

Paolo Arosio, professor ETH Zurich, receives an ERC Proof of Concept grant to develop a technology for the rapid, specific, and scalable isolation of vesicles and molecules from biofluids with applications in diagnostics and disease monitoring as well as drug manufacturing. ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 28

‘Landmark paper’ reveals how environment affects individual catalytic atoms’ activity
www.chemistryworld.com/news/landmar...

‘Landmark paper’ reveals how environment affects individual catalytic atoms’ activity

Research could improve single-atom catalyst design

www.chemistryworld.com

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thanks to the Software for Chemistry & Materials (SCM) for highlighting our recent work on Pt SAC in their website. Adf computations were used to translate the SACs NMR fingerprints into chemical information on their coordination environments.
www.scm.com/highlights/c...

Coordination of Pt Single-Atom Catalysts via NMR: Experiment and Theory - SCM

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 28

‘Landmark paper’ reveals how environment affects individual catalytic atoms’ activity
www.chemistryworld.com/news/landmar...

‘Landmark paper’ reveals how environment affects individual catalytic atoms’ activity

Research could improve single-atom catalyst design

www.chemistryworld.com

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 27

Tellurium flips the script - transforming abundant transition metals into low-temp RWGS catalysts rivaling platinum. CoTe & NiTe hit near-equilibrium CO₂ conversion with >98% CO selectivity. @jacs.acspublications.org
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Tellurium-Induced Noble-Metal Reactivity in CO2 Hydrogenation Catalysts

The reverse water–gas shift (RWGS) reaction is a pivotal industrial process that is central to CO2 utilization. It typically relies on rare platinum group metal catalysts and high temperatures (over 1...

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 19

Doping the alumina-supported PtGa propane dehydrogenation catalyst with Si increases its stability, as a result of a change in the coking mechanism and carbon dynamics. Read our work in @jacs.acspublications.org
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Silicon: A Surface Dopant for Stable Alumina-Supported PtGa Propane Dehydrogenation Catalysts by Favoring Redox and Carbon Dynamics

The exploitation of shale gas has stimulated the use of on-purpose propane dehydrogenation (PDH) technologies. These technologies rely on continuous and rapid catalyst regeneration to maintain high pr...

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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · Jun 19

ETH Zurich ranks 7th globally in the QS World University Rankings 2026 — and #1 in continental Europe. With global research impact and a top-2 spot in hashtag#Sustainability, we’re proud to keep driving #Science and #Education forward.

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QS rankings: ETH Zurich secures 7th place once again

According to the recently published QS World University Rankings 2026, ETH Zurich ranks among the world’s ten best universities once again this year. It took the top spot in continental Europe, with o...

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 19

Doping the alumina-supported PtGa propane dehydrogenation catalyst with Si increases its stability, as a result of a change in the coking mechanism and carbon dynamics. Read our work in @jacs.acspublications.org
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Silicon: A Surface Dopant for Stable Alumina-Supported PtGa Propane Dehydrogenation Catalysts by Favoring Redox and Carbon Dynamics

The exploitation of shale gas has stimulated the use of on-purpose propane dehydrogenation (PDH) technologies. These technologies rely on continuous and rapid catalyst regeneration to maintain high pr...

pubs.acs.org

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 16

DNP NMR at solid-liquid interfaces is now possible!
In this collaborative work we applied Overhauser DNP to a supported catalyst to gain molecular understanding of interfacial chemistry. @jacs.acspublications.org @ethz.ch
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Surface Enhanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy at Solid–Liquid Interfaces Using Overhauser Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

While solid–liquid interfaces are ubiquitous, detecting the associated surface sites under ambient conditions remains a grand challenge. Here, we demonstrate an approach to efficiently enhance the NMR...

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 11

Nature research paper: Coordination environments of Pt single-atom catalysts from NMR signatures

https://go.nature.com/4dSAt6v

Coordination environments of Pt single-atom catalysts from NMR signatures - Nature

This study presents a nuclear magnetic resonance-based method to determine local structure and bonding of Pt single-atom catalysts.

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Domenico Gioffrè @domenicogioffre.bsky.social · Jun 5

This great collaborative work is finally out! Proud to see how the advancement of our understanding of 195Pt NMR signatures enables to describe heterogeneous catalysts in such detail.

Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 4

Are Single Atom Catalysts (SACs) Single-Sites? Not really according to our latest development in 195Pt ssNMR, now out in @nature.com . Our methodology enables to understand the nature and distribution of the coordination environment of Pt SACs! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coordination environments of Pt single-atom catalysts from NMR signatures - Nature

This study presents a nuclear magnetic resonance-based method to determine local structure and bonding of Pt single-atom catalysts.

www.nature.com

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 4

Are Single Atom Catalysts (SACs) Single-Sites? Not really according to our latest development in 195Pt ssNMR, now out in @nature.com . Our methodology enables to understand the nature and distribution of the coordination environment of Pt SACs! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coordination environments of Pt single-atom catalysts from NMR signatures - Nature

This study presents a nuclear magnetic resonance-based method to determine local structure and bonding of Pt single-atom catalysts.

www.nature.com

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 4

This study has been possible thanks to an amazing set of collaborators at @ethz.ch (Perez-Ramirez group), C-RMN Lyon and Aarhus University, participating in the NCCR Catalysis and a joint ANR @snsf.ch research program.

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 4

This study has been possible thanks to an amazing set of collaborators at @ethz.ch (Perez-Ramirez group), C-RMN Lyon and Aarhus University, participating in the NCCR Catalysis and a joint ANR @snsf.ch research program.

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · Jun 4

Are Single Atom Catalysts (SACs) Single-Sites? Not really according to our latest development in 195Pt ssNMR, now out in @nature.com . Our methodology enables to understand the nature and distribution of the coordination environment of Pt SACs! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coordination environments of Pt single-atom catalysts from NMR signatures - Nature

This study presents a nuclear magnetic resonance-based method to determine local structure and bonding of Pt single-atom catalysts.

www.nature.com

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Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · May 29

We are delighted to announce that Professor Christopher Chang @christhechang.bsky.social has won the 2025 Chemical Science Lectureship! rsc.li/chemsci-lectu...

Chris will deliver his Lectureship at the 2025 #ChemSciSymposium on 18-19 November in London, UK: rsc.li/chemscisymp2025

#ChemSky #🧪

Promotional graphic with photo of Chris, his name and affiliation (Princeton University) and the phrase 'Meet the 2025 Chemical Science Lectureship winner'

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · May 26

Congrats, Yuya! The glue of a great MN-Osaka-ETH collaboration. Yuya was kind enough to collaborate w/ our group during both his masters at Osaka and PhD at ETH, ultimately coauthoring 5 papers (so far?) on 15N ssNMR and early TM imido catalysis. A real force of chemistry and great teammate!

Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · May 26

Congratulations to Yuya, our synthesis-sensei and NCS analysis champion for the successful defence of his PhD thesis. He studied spectroscopic descriptors for reactivity of olefin conversion catalysts.

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · May 26

Congratulations to Yuya, our synthesis-sensei and NCS analysis champion for the successful defence of his PhD thesis. He studied spectroscopic descriptors for reactivity of olefin conversion catalysts.

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · May 18

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes are ubiquitous ligands
in coinage metals complexes and clusters. This work provides insights into how structural and electronic factors govern their carbene 13C chemical shift. @jacs.acspublications.org
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

13C Chemical Shift of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Coinage Metal(I) Complexes and Clusters: trans-Influence and Spin–Orbit Coupling

N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are versatile ligands in organometallic chemistry, prized for their strong σ-donating and tunable electronic properties. They are used to stabilize a wide range of motif...

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Copéret Group @coperetgroup.bsky.social · May 26

Congratulations to Yuya, our synthesis-sensei and NCS analysis champion for the successful defence of his PhD thesis. He studied spectroscopic descriptors for reactivity of olefin conversion catalysts.

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