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!

Catalytic processes often occur at solid-liquid interfaces, and understanding what's going on there is challenging. To do this, we used OE-DNP NMR. We could also gain a molecular understanding of catalyst leaching process, a common issue in hererogeneous catalysis. @jacs.acspublications.org

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.

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
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This was a lot of fun! A nice example of how an equation can be used to tackle a long-standing problem in chemistry.

Our work on Catalytic Photothermal Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Liquid Fuels using Pt/GaN is now out in ChemSusChem
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

γ-Al2O3 is ubiquitous in catalysis. Here we used 1H/27Al NMR cross-signatures (at 1.2 GHz) and DFT modeling to assign surface sites to specific edges and surfaces. Read our work in JACS @pubs.acs.org
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