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Asymmetric azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition on chiral metal surfaces

Harald Brune, Roland Hany, Roland Widmer, Michael Bauer, Samuel Thomas Stolz

Achieving fundamental understanding of enantioselective heterogeneous synthesis is marred by the permanent presence of multitudinous arrangements of catalytically active sites in real catalysts. In this study, we address this issue by using structurally co ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Asymmetric Elimination Reaction on Chiral Metal Surfaces

Harald Brune, Roland Widmer, Martina Danese, Daniele Passerone, Samuel Thomas Stolz

The production of enantiopure materials and molecules is of uttermost relevance in research and industry in numerous contexts, ranging from nonlinear optics to asymmetric synthesis. In the context of the latter, dehalogenation, which is an essential reacti ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2021

Near-Enantiopure Trimerization of 9-Ethynylphenanthrene on a Chiral Metal Surface

Harald Brune, Roland Widmer, Aliaksandr Yakutovich, Jan Prinz, Samuel Thomas Stolz

Enantioselectivity in heterogeneous catalysis strongly depends on the chirality transfer between catalyst surface and all reactants, intermediates, and the product along the reaction pathway. Herein we report the first enantioselective on-surface synthesis ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Molecular motor crossing the frontier of classical to quantum tunneling motion

Harald Brune, Roland Widmer, Jan Prinz, Samuel Thomas Stolz

The reliability by which molecular motor proteins convert undirected energy input into directed motion or transport has inspired the design of innumerable artificial molecular motors. We have realized and investigated an artificial molecular motor applying ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Handedness-dependent quasiparticle interference in the two enantiomers of the topological chiral semimetal PdGa

Roland Widmer, Samuel Thomas Stolz, Yi-Chiang Sun, Timur Kim

It has recently been proposed that combining chirality with topological band theory results in a totally new class of fermions. Understanding how these unconventional quasiparticles propagate and interact remains largely unexplored so far. Here, we use sca ...

Nature Research2020

Impact of interlayer application on band bending for improved electron extraction for efficient flexible perovskite mini-modules

Romain Carron, Roland Widmer, Fan Fu

The development of highly efficient lightweight flexible perovskite solar cells (PSCs) opens the way to high-throughput roll-to-roll manufacturing processes and new applications such as building integration and mobile products. Flexible PSCs are generally ...

Elsevier Science Bv2018

Adsorption of Small Hydrocarbons on the Three-Fold PdGa Surfaces: The Road to Selective Hydrogenation

Harald Brune, Roland Widmer, Daniele Passerone, Jan Prinz

Intermetallic compounds are a promising class of materials as stable and selective heterogeneous catalysts. Here, the (111) and (-1-1-1) single crystal surfaces of the PdGa intermetallic compound were studied as model catalysts with regard to the selective ...

American Chemical Society2014

Isolated Pd Sites on the Intermetallic PdGa(111) and PdGa($\bar 1$ $\bar 1$ $\bar 1$) Model Catalyst Surfaces

Harald Brune, Roland Widmer, Daniele Passerone, Jan Prinz

Wiley-Blackwell2012