Collaborative Research Center 1333
Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis
in Confined Geometries
Reaction mechanisms in confinement by advanced hard X-ray spectroscopy
– New project since July 2022 –
In project C10 established and recent hard X-ray methods available at synchrotron radiation sources will be developed and applied to study fundamental confinement effects in two dedicated cases: Cu- catalyzed CO2 hydrogenation and Cr-catalyzed oligomerization of ethylene. The identification of the active species, the reaction mechanisms and the determination of pore-wall interactions and geometric modifications of the used metal complexes by direct or indirect confinement influences, i.e. the appearance of direct pore wall – metal contacts or geometric distortions of the complex, form the key aims of the project
S. Bhattacharya, M. Högler, J. R. Bruckner, B. Atwi, N. Hansen, F. R. Fischer and M. R. Buchmeiser
ChemRxiv. 2025
L. Rautenbach, M. Nandeshwar, E. Goldstein, M. Högler, M. Häußler, A. Allgaier, A. Bauer, D. Hornung, A. Beck, C. Franke, J. Osterbrink, J. R. Bruckner, J. Kästner, J. van Slageren, J. Pleiss, N. Hansen, M. R. Buchmeiser and R. Peters
ChemRxiv. 2025
A. Rodríguez-Camargo, E. Yildiz, D. Juela, F. R. Fischer, D. Graf, B. B. Rath, Ch. Ochsenfeld, M. Bauer, M. Sitti, L. Yao and B. V. Lotsch
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P. Probst, M. Lindemann, J. R. Bruckner, B. Atwi, D. Wang, F. R. Fischer, M. Högler, M. Bauer, N. Hansen, M. Dyballa and M. R. Buchmeiser
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 8741–8750.
M. Benz, O. Bunjaku, M. Nowakowski, A. Allgaier, I. Biswas, J. van Slageren, M. Bauer and D. P. Estes
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024, 14, 5854-5863.
L.Fritsch, P. Rehsies, W. Barakat, D. P. Estes and M. Bauer
Chem. Eur. J.2024, e202400357.
F. Ziegler, J. R. Bruckner, M. Nowakowski, M. Bauer, P. Probst, B. Atwi, M. R. Buchmeiser
ChemCatChem, 2023,15 (21), e202300871.
M. Kirchhof, K. Gugeler, A.-K. Beurer, F. R. Fischer, D. Batman, S. M. Bauch, S. Kolin, E. Nicholas, R. Schoch, Ch. Vogler, S. R. Kousik, A. Zens, B. Plietker, P. Atanasova, S. Naumann, M. Bauer, J. R. Bruckner, Y. Traa, J. Kästner and Sabine Laschat
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2023, 13, 3709-3724.
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