The resulting red, crystalline compound has a central palladium atom bonded to six silicon atoms, giving it an apparent oxidation number of 6, the researchers report.

The development and understanding of efficient catalysts based on isolated metal centers stabilized on suitable hosts is a challenging task that has sparked the imagination of researchers worldwide.

In a recent study, an international research team led by the group of Advanced Catalysis Engineering at ETH Zurich demonstrated that carbon nitrides of distinct framework types can serve as ...

The researchers described their new method in a paper that appeared on May 31, 2023, in Nature.The method uses a designer molecule called a ligand that helps a palladium-atom catalyst reach from ...

It has a long, curved structure and functions like a crane and wrecking-ball, anchoring itself temporarily to one part of a target molecule and swinging an atom of palladium to break a chemical ...

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for developing palladium-catalyzed cross coupling. This chemical tool has vastly improved ...

Importantly, the selectivity towards the desired 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol product approached 100% over all of the investigated single-atom catalysts, whereas the conventional (Lindlar) catalyst used for ...