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Tailoring polymers of intrinsic microporosity as photoredox catalysts for continuous-flow reaction–separation processes
Year: 2026 DOI:10.1038/s41467-026-73833-3
Authors: Martin Gede, Gergo Ignacz, Catherine S. P. De Castro, Busra Dereli, Mariia Ferree, Frederic Laquai, Luigi Cavallo, Gyorgy Szekely
Nature Communications
Catalyst components for the polymerization of olefins
Year: 2026
Authors: Leonardo BRUSTOLIN, Luigi CAVALLO, Antonio Cristofori, Laura FALIVENE, Alessandro Mignogna, Giampiero Morini, Fabrizio Piemontesi, Lorenzo Veronese, Gianni Vitale, Gianni Collina, Benedetta Gaddi, Ofelia Fusco, Piero Gessi
US Patent
Mechanochemically assembled organometallic complexes: a mechanistic study
Year: 2026 DOI:10.1039/D6SC01038E
Authors: Lama Hamdouna, Gianmarco Pisanò, Andrew G. M. Rankin, Julien Trébosc, Ida Ritacco, Olivier Devos, Laurent Delevoye, Pascal Roussel, Lucia Caporaso, Luigi Cavallo, Steven P. Nolan, Olivier Lafon, Catherine S. J. Cazin

Chemical Science

Photoinduced Palladium-Catalyzed Site-Selective Meta-Alkylation of Pyridines
Year: 2026 DOI:10.1002/ange.5426146
Authors: Anurag Singh, Rajesh Kancherla, Sayan Dutta, Arnab Dey, Kuntal Pal, Bholanath Maity, Lennard Kloene, Luigi Cavallo, Rene M. Koenigs, Magnus Rueping
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Engineering edge-rich, highly dispersed, and stable MoS₂ sites for the catalytic splitting of H₂S for H₂ production
Year: 2026 DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-8597696/v1
Authors: Pedro Castaño, Hend Mohamed, Vijay Velisoju, Mohammed Obaid, Rafia Ahmed, Yuma Hirayama, Mohamed Hassine, Gontzal Lezcano, Ildar Mukhambetov, Zainab Alaithan, Muhammad Shafarifky, Ali Almofleh, Polina Tolstova, Omar El Tall, Takato Mitsudome, Huabin Zhang, Luigi Cavallo, Noreddine Ghaffour, Hassan Aljama
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Pulsed electrolysis enables unexpected lactonization of bicyclobutane carboxylic acids
Year: 2026 DOI:10.1039/D6SC01541G
Authors: Anton S. Makarov, Liang Yi, Bholanath Maity, Luigi Cavallo, Magnus Rueping

Chemical Science

NiCoOx@NiCo core–shell nanoparticles supported on Ti3C2Tx as cathode electrocatalyst for microbial fuel cells
Year: 2026 DOI:10.1039/D6TA03240K
Authors: Pewee D. Kolubah, Hend Omar Mohamed, Mohamed Nejib Hedhili, Mohamed Ben Hassine, Rafia Ahmad, Vijay K. Velisoju, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Pia Dally, Luigi Cavallo, Pedro Castaño

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Sensing the Artificially Expanded Genetic Information System DNA Using Janus MoSSe Monolayers: A Density Functional Theory Investigation
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.5c05088
Authors: Sitansh Sharma, Vasudeo Babar, Abdul Rajjak Shaikh, Hosna Jabbari, Romina Oliva, Mohit Chawla, Luigi Cavallo
ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • 2D materials
  • AEGIS
  • Janus MoSSe
  • Density functional theory (DFT)
  • nucleobase sensing
  • electronic transport
  • artificially expanded genetic systems
  • nonequilibrium Green’s function
Book Chapter 35: A hitchhiker guide to modeling homogeneous catalysis
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-26596-9.00033-8
Authors: Bholanath Maity, Sayan Dutta, Luigi Cavallo
Handbook of Electronic Structure Theory
  • homogeneous catalysis
  • reaction mechanisms
  • density functional theory
  • modeling catalysis
Asymmetric C(sp3)−H dienylation of thioamides under Cp*Co(III)/chiral acid catalysis
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2026.116779
Authors: Bholanath Garai, Arka Ghosh, Sayan Dutta, Bholanath Maity, Luigi Cavallo, Basker Sundararaju
Journal of Catalysis
Mechanistic Explanation of Enhanced E → Z Photocatalyzed Isomerization Kinetics
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c03247
Authors: Pawel M Kozlowski, Saptarshi Saha, Bholanath Maity, Luigi Cavallo, Lee M Thompson
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Predictive, Data-Driven Design of Red-Light Photoredox Catalysts for C─Heteroatom Bond Formation
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202526086
Authors: Amir Gizatullin, Tingting Yuan, Sascha Grotjahn, Luigi Cavallo, Burkhard König, Chen Zhu, Magnus Rueping
Angewandte Chemie
Energetic Preferences in Cyclic π-Conjugated Systems: Aromaticity Localizes and Antiaromaticity Spreads
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/chemistry8010007
Authors: Miquel Solà, Luigi Cavallo
Chemistry
  • π-distortivity
  • aromatic stabilization energy
  • bond-length equalization (BLE)
  • annulenes
  • C18
  • porphyrin
  • macrocycle
MOF-derived cobalt catalysts for sustainable tandem hydroformylation–acetalization in green solvents: experimental and DFT calculations
Year: 2026 DOI:10.1039/D5GC04496K
Authors: Wejdan Hadi Anbari, Leandro Duarte Almeida, Alejandra Rendón Patiño, Rafia Ahmad, Luis Garzon-Tovar, Luigi Cavallo, Jorge Gascon
Green Chemistry
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