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To achieve chemical accuracy methods for dissociative chemisorption on metals must use adjustable hybrid density functionals fitted to barriers computed with first principles methods, and dynamics methods accurately describing non-adiabatic effects.

2Analytic evidence is given on how polyunsaturated fatty acids considerably reduce the activity of the homogeneously catalysed hydroformylation of technical-grade oleochemicals.

High-throughput experimentation and computational chemistry were used to build machine learning models for Rh-catalyzed asymmetric olefin hydrogenation, identifying numerous factors affecting the accuracy of selectivity and reactivity predictions.

While Zn and Zr are selective towards CO production, the addition of Zn to ZrO₂ shifts the selectivity to methanol by inducing a phase transformation from tetragonal to cubic ZrO₂, enhancing methanol synthesis efficiency in CO₂ hydrogenation.

A versatile, general-purpose, and efficient grand canonical global optimizer for clusters, interfaces, and adsorbates.

Sn-β is a promising Lewis acid zeolite for carbohydrate conversion.

Wavelet analysis on Mo K-edge data from Mo-ZSM-5 reveals the presence of mononuclear sites after activation and subsequent zeolite collapse.

This study reports the conversion of CO₂ and H₂ to CO and H₂O at low temperature and low pressure (up to 203 °C, p = 3.5 bar) using plasmonic Au/CeO_2−x photocatalysts, with mildly concentrated sunlight as the sole energy source (up to 9 kW m⁻²).

The inherent electrocatalytic activity of nickel boride nanocrystals was investigated in the electrochemical oxidation of a bio-based platform chemical as hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) to a valuable product as furan dicarboxylic acid (FDCA).

Crystalline AgReO₄ was formed in Re-promoted Ag catalysts. The effect of Re on catalysis and EO isomerization was tested without and with the industrially relevant ethyl chloride. EO isomerization was greatly affected by both Re and Cl.

O₂ evolution activity of La_1−xSr_xFeO₃ depends on the presence of hole states below the conduction-band-minimum, whose stability is compromised by Sr-leaching.

The structure of humins, a major side-product of carbohydrate biorefining, is complex and to a large extent unknown. A multitechnique characterization of an industrial humin provides new structural insights.

Thermal-assisted photocatalytic methanol conversion with water vapour over Pt/SrTiO₃ facilitates formaldehyde formation from surface-absorbed methoxy; formyl is the key intermediate in concurrent reactions, and formate poisons the catalyst.