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Publications

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N. Dimitratos, G. Vilé, S. Albonetti, F. Cavani, J. Fiorio, N. López, L.M. Rossi, R. Wojcieszak

"Strategies to improve hydrogen activation on gold catalysts"
Nat. Rev. Chem. 2024, doi: 10.1038/s41570-024-00578-2


V. Ruta, G. Di Liberto, F. Moriggi, Y.P. Ivanov, G. Divitini, G. Bussetti, V. Barbera, M.A. Bajada, M. Galimberti, G. Pacchioni, G. Vilé*

"Copper single atoms chelated on ligand‐modified carbon for Ullmann‐type C-O coupling"
ChemSusChem 2024, e202301529

 

M.A. Bajada, G. Di Liberto, S. Tosoni, V. Ruta, L. Mino, N. Allasia, A. Sivo, G. Pacchioni, G. Vilé*

"Light-driven C-O coupling of carboxylic acids and alkyl halides over a Ni single-atom catalyst"

Nat. Synth. 2023, 2, 1092-1103

L.J. Wesenberg, A. Sivo, G. Vilé, T. Noël

"Ni-catalyzed electro-reductive cross-electrophile couplings of alkyl amine-derived radical precursors with aryl iodides" 
J. Org. Chem. 2023, doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c00859

G. Vilé*

"Paired aluminum sites in zeolite catalysts enhance aromatics production"

Chem Catal. 2023, 3, 100616

M. Colella, Y. Gelato, M. Andresini, E. Graziano, G. Vilé, L. Degennaro, R. Luisi

"Forging C‐S bonds on the azetidine ring by continuous-flow photochemical addition of thiols and disulfides to azetines"

Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2023, e202300413

V.B. Saptal, V. Ruta, M.A. Bajada, G. Vilé*

"Single-atom catalysis in organic synthesis" (Frontispiece)
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202219306

G. Vilé*, B. Qiao

"Book review: 'Supported Metal Single Atom Catalysis', Edited by Philippe Serp and Doan Pham Minh"

ChemCatChem 2023, e202300020

A. Sivo, V. Ruta, V. Granata, O. Savateev, M.A. Bajada, G. Vilé*

"Nanostructured carbon nitride for continuous-flow trifluoromethylation of (hetero)arenes"
ACS Sust. Chem. Eng. 2023, 11, 5284-5292

V. Ruta, A. Sivo, L. Bonetti, M.A. Bajada, G. Vilé*

"Structural effects of metal single-atom catalysts for enhanced photocatalytic degradation of Gemfibrozil"
ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2022, 5, 14520-14528​

M.A. Bajada, J. Sanjosé-Orduna, G. Di Liberto, S. Tosoni, G. Pacchioni, T. Noel, G. Vilé*

"Interfacing single-atom catalysis with continuous-flow organic electrosynthesis"
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2022, 51, 3898-3925 (Invited Front Cover)​

G. Vilé*, D. Ng, Z. Xie, I. Martinez-Botella, J. Tsanaktsidis, C.H. Hornung

"3D-printed structured reactor with integrated single-atom catalyst film for hydrogenation"
ChemCatChem 2022, 14 , e202200778 (Invited Front Cover)

G. Vilé*, G. Di Liberto, S. Tosoni, A. Sivo, V. Ruta, M. Nachtegaal, A. Clark, S. Agnoli, Y. Zou, A. Savateev, M. Antonietti, G. Pacchioni

"Azide-alkyne click chemistry over a heterogeneous copper-based single-atom catalyst"
ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 2947-2958

G. Vilé*

"Synthesis of surface-modified nanomaterials"

in M.B. Gawande, C.M. Hussain, Y. Yamauchi (Eds.), "Surface-modified nanomaterials for applications in catalysis", Elsevier 2022, 53-71

J. Liu, Z. Zhang, Y. Jiang, X. Jiang, N. He, S. Yan, P. Guo, G. Xiong, J. Su, G. Vilé*

"Influence of the zeolite surface properties and potassium modification on the Zn-catalyzed CO2-assisted oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane"

Appl. Catal. B 2022, 302, 120974

J. Liu, S. Li, Z. Zhang, N. Fusi, C. Liu, G. Xiong, G. Vilé, N. He

"Structured binder-free Al-β zeolite for acid-catalyzed dehydration"

ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2021, 4, 11997-12005

A. Sivo, V. Ruta, G. Vilé*

"Gram-scale domino synthesis in batch and flow mode of azetidinium salts"

J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 14113-14120 (Special Issue 'Enabling Techniques for Organic Synthesis'; Highlighted in Synfacts 2022, 18, 0221)

G. Vilé*, J. Liu, Z. Zhang

"Surface engineering of a Cu-based heterogeneous catalyst for efficient azide-alkyne click cycloaddition"

React. Chem. Eng. 2021, 6, 1878-1883 (Special Collection 'Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Investigators in Chemical Engineering')

J. Liu, Y. Zou, D. Cruz, A. Savateev, M. Antonietti, G. Vilé*

"Ligand-metal charge transfer induced via adjustment of textural properties controls the performance of single-atom catalysts during photocatalytic degradation"

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 25858-25867

G. Vilé*, P. Sharma, M. Nachtegaal, F. Tollini, D. Moscatelli, A. Sroka-Bartnicka, O. Tomanec, M. Petr, J. Filip, I.S. Pieta, R. Zbořil, M.B. Gawande

"An Earth-abundant Ni-based single-atom catalyst for selective photodegradation of pollutants"

Solar RRL 2021, 5, 2100176 (Invited Front Cover; Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos)

J. Liu, N. He, Z. Zhang, J. Yang, X. Jiang, Z. Zhang, J. Su, M. Shu, R. Si, G. Xiong, H.-B. Xie, G. Vilé*

"Highly-dispersed zinc species on zeolites for the continuous and selective dehydrogenation of ethane with CO2 as soft oxidant"

ACS Catal. 2021, 11, 2819-2830

A. Sivo, R. Souza Galaverna, G. Rodrigues Gomes, J.C. Pastre, G. Vilé*

"From circular applications to materials manufacturing: advances, challenges, and future steps for using flow chemistry in novel application areas"

React. Chem. Eng. 2021, 6, 756-786 (Invited Front Cover)

G. Vilé*

"Book review: 'Process Intensification – Breakthrough in Design, Industrial Innovation Practices, and Education', by Jan Hamsen"

AIChE J. 2021, 67, e17125.

G. Vilé*

"Photocatalytic materials and light-driven continuous processes to remove emerging pharmaceutical pollutants from water and selectively close the carbon cycle"

Catal. Sci. Technol. 2021, 11, 43-61

S. Tortoioli, A. Friedli, A. Prud’homme, S. Richard-Bildstein, P. Kohler, S. Abele, G. Vilé*

"Development of an efficient and sustainable synthesis of 1,2,4-triazoles under continuous-flow conditions"

Green Chem. 2020, 22, 3748-3758 (Invited Front Cover)

L. Amini-Rentsch, E. Vanoli, S. Richard-Bildstein, R. Marti, G. Vilé*

"A novel and efficient continuous-flow route to prepare trifluoromethylated N-fused heterocycles for drug discovery and pharmaceutical manufacturing"

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2019, 58, 10164-10171 (Invited Front Cover, Special Issue ‘2019 Class of Influential Researchers in Chemical Engineering')

 

E. Vorobyeva, E. Fako, Z. Chen, S. M. Collins, D. Johnstone, P. A. Midgley, R. Hauert, O. V. Safonova, G. Vilé, N. López, S. Mitchell, J. Pérez-Ramírez

"Atom‐by‐atom resolution of structure-function relations over low‐nuclearity metal catalysts"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 8724-8729 (Hot Paper, highlighted in ChemViews)

 

G. Vilé*, G. Schmidt, S. Richard, S. Abele

"Enantiospecific cyclization of methyl N-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-N-(3-chloropropyl)-D-alaninate to 2-methylproline derivative via ‘memory of chirality’ in flow"

J. Flow Chem. 2019, 9, 19-25 (Special Issue 'Continuous Processing in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing')

G. Vilé, S. Richard, A. Lhuillery, G. Rueedi

"Electrophile, substrate functionality, and catalyst effects in the synthesis of α‐mono and di‐substituted benzylamines via vsible‐light photoredox catalysis in flow"

ChemCatChem 2018, 10, 3786-3794

E. Vorobyeva, S. Mitchell, E. Fako, M.A. Ortuño, N. López, S. Richard, G. Vilé, J. Pérez-Ramírez

"A heterogeneous single-atom palladium catalyst surpassing homogeneous systems for Suzuki coupling"

Nature Nanotechnol. 2018, 13, 702-707 (Highlighted in Nature Catal., Science, and C&EN)

G. Vilé*

"Flow chemistry & catalysis - where do we stand and where do we go?"

Catal. Today 2018, 308, 1-2

 

D. Albani, M. Capdevila, G. Vilé, S. Mitchell, N. López, J. Pérez-Ramírez

"Semihydrogenation of acetylene on indium oxide: proposed single‐ensemble catalysis"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 10895-10900

N. Almora-Barrios, G. Vilé, M. Garcia-Ratés, J. Pérez-Ramírez, N. López

"Electrochemical effects at surfactant-platinum nanoparticle interfaces boost catalytic performance"

Appl. Catal. B 2017, 9, 604-609

D. Albani, Q. Li, G. Vilé, S. Mitchell, N. Almora-Barrios, P.T. Witte, N. López, J. Pérez-Ramírez

"Interfacial acidity in ligand-modified ruthenium nanoparticles boosts the hydrogenation of levulinic acid to gamma-valerolactone"

Green Chem. 2017, 19, 2361-2370 (Invited Front Cover)

D. Albani, G. Vilé, M.A. Beltran Toro, R. Kaufmann, S. Mitchell, J. Pérez-Ramírez

"Structuring hybrid palladium nanoparticles in metallic monolithic reactors for continuous-flow three-phase alkyne hydrogenation"

React. Chem. Eng. 2016, 1, 454-462

M. Capdevila-Cortada, G. Vilé, D. Teschner, J. Pérez-Ramírez, N. López

"Reactivity descriptors for ceria in catalysis"

Appl. Catal. B 2016, 197, 299-312

Z. Chen, S. Pronkin, T. Fellinger, K. Kailasam, G. Vilé, D. Albani, F. Krumeich, R. Leary, J. Barnard, J.M. Thomas, J. Pérez-Ramírez, M. Antonietti, D. Dontsova

"Merging single-atom-dispersed silver and carbon nitride to a joint electronic system via copolymerization with silver tricyanomethanide"

ACS Nano 2016, 10, 3166-3175

G. Vilé, D. Albani, N. Almora-Barrios, N. López, J. Pérez-Ramírez

"Advances in the design of nanostructured catalysts for selective hydrogenation"

ChemCatChem 2016, 8, 21-33 (Frontispiece)

D. Albani, G. Vilé, S. Mitchell, P.T. Witte, N. Almora-Barrios, R. Verel, N. López, J. Pérez-Ramírez

"Ligand ordering determines the catalytic response of hybrid palladium nanoparticles in hydrogenation"

Catal. Sci. Technol. 2016, 6, 1621-1631 (Front Cover)

M. Moser, G. Vilé, S. Colussi, F. Krumeich, D. Teschner, L. Szentmiklósi, A. Trovarelli, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"Structure and reactivity of ceria-zirconia catalysts for bromine and chlorine production via the gas-phase oxidation of hydrogen halides"
J. Catal. 2015, 331, 128-137 (Editor-in-Chief’s Featured Article)

G. Vilé, D. Albani, M. Nachtegaal, D. Dontsova, M. Antonietti, N. López, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"A stable single-site palladium catalyst for hydrogenations"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 11265-11269 (Invited Front Cover, Highlighted in Nature and in C&EN)

G. Vilé, N. Almora-Barrios, N. López, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"Structure and reactivity of supported hybrid platinum nanoparticles for the hydrogenation of functionalized nitroaromatics"
ACS Catal. 2015, 5, 3767-3778 

G. Vilé, P. Dähler, J. Vecchietti, M. Baltanás, M. Calatayud, A. Bonivardi, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"Promoted ceria catalysts for alkyne semi-hydrogenation"
J. Catal. 2015, 324, 69-78 (Editor-in-Chief’s Featured Article)

G. Vilé, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"Silver and gold nanocatalysts in flow mode for sustainable alkene production" 
Nanoscale 2014, 6, 13476-13482 (Invited Front Cover)

E. Oakton, G. Vilé, D. Levine, E. Zocher, D. Baudouin, J. Pérez-Ramírez, C. Copéret 
"Silver nanoparticles supported on passivated silica: preparation and catalytic performance in alkyne semi-hydrogenation"
Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 15138-15142 

G. Vilé, S. Colussi, F. Krumeich, A. Trovarelli, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"Opposite face sensitivity of CeO2 in hydrogenation and oxidation catalysis"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 12069-12072 (Invited Front Cover) 

G. Vilé, S. Wrabetz, L. Floryan, M.E. Schuster, F. Girgsdies, D. Teschner, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"Stereo and chemoselective character of supported CeO2 catalysts for continuous-flow three-phase alkyne hydrogenation"
ChemCatChem 2014, 6, 1928-1934 

G. Vilé, N. Almora-Barrios, S. Mitchell, N. López, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"From the Lindlar catalyst to supported ligand-modified palladium nanoparticles in the continuous-flow three-phase hydrogenation of acetylenic compounds"
Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 5926-5937 (Invited Front Cover; Highlighted in ChemistryViews and in Org. Chem. Highlights; Thomson Reuters highly-cited publication)

J. Carrasco, G. Vilé, D. Fernández-Torre, R. Pérez, J. Pérez-Ramírez, M.V. Ganduglia-Pirovano 
"Molecular-level understanding of CeO2 as a catalyst for partial alkyne hydrogenation"
J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 5352-5360 (Invited Front Cover) 

Q.M. Kainz, R. Linhardt, R. Grass, G. Vilé, J. Pérez-Ramírez, W.J. Stark, O. Reiser 
"Palladium nanoparticles supported on magnetic carbon-coated cobalt nanobeads"
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2014, 24, 2020-2027 

G. Vilé, D. Baudouin, I.N. Remediakis, C. Copéret, N. López, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"Silver nanoparticles for olefin production: new insights into the mechanistic description of propyne hydrogenation"
ChemCatChem 2013, 5, 3750-3759 


G. Vilé, B. Bridier, J. Wichert, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"Ceria in hydrogenation catalysis: high selectivity in the conversion of alkynes to olefins"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 8620-8623 (Highlighted in Chimia)

D. Verboekend, G. Vilé, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"Mesopore formation in USY and beta zeolites by base leaching: selection criteria and optimization of pore-directing agents"
Cryst. Growth Des. 2012, 12, 3123-3132

D. Verboekend, G. Vilé, J. Pérez-Ramírez 
"Hierarchical Y and USY zeolites designed by post-synthetic strategies"
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2012, 22, 916-928 (Invited Front Cover)

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