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Carbamate-bond breaking on bulk oxides realizes highly efficient polyurethane depolymerization

Paul Joseph Dyson, Laura Piveteau, Xinbang Wu, Roland Christopher Turnell-Ritson

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Realising efficient conversion of nitrogen-containing plastic waste with ceria-based catalysts

The proliferation of plastic waste in the 21st century has serious environmental impacts on biodiversity and human health. Besides single-use plastic waste, there is mounting evidence that durable plastics, such as nitrogen-containing plastics, are being m ...

EPFL2025

Polycondensation as a Universal Method for Preparing High-density Single-atom Catalyst Libraries

Paul Joseph Dyson, Mounir Driss Mensi, Pascal Miéville, Laura Piveteau, Xunhui Wang, Xinbang Wu, Daniel Ortiz Trujillo, Miyeon Chang, Ariana Serban, Timo Markus Oskar Felder

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) present a promising subclass of classic heterogeneous catalysts by maximizing metal dispersion and enhancing efficiency. Although high-density SACs (HD-SACs) are reported, their synthesis is typically constrained to specific me ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Unveiling the Roles of Pt and CeO2 during Solvent-Free Amide Hydrogenation Utilizing Operando Photoelectron Photoionization Coincidence Spectroscopy

Paul Joseph Dyson, Xinbang Wu, Roland Christopher Turnell-Ritson

The hydrogenation of amides to amines is an important reaction in the synthesis of building blocks in organic chemistry. However, the solvent-free hydrogenation of amides (requiring heterogeneous catalysts and high reaction temperatures) is challenging, wi ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Tandem catalysis enables chlorine-containing waste as chlorination reagents

Paul Joseph Dyson, Mingyang Liu, Xinbang Wu

Chlorinated compounds are ubiquitous. However, accumulation of chlorine-containing waste has a negative impact on human health and the environment due to the inapplicability of common disposal methods, such as landfill and incineration. Here we report a su ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Thermally stable high-loading single Cu sites on ZSM-5 for selective catalytic oxidation of NH3

Paul Joseph Dyson, Xinbang Wu

Rigorous comparisons between single site- and nanoparticle (NP)-dispersed catalysts featuring the same composition, in terms of activity, selectivity, and reaction mechanism, are limited. This limitation is partly due to the tendency of single metal atoms ...

National Academy of Sciences2024

Method for converting nitrogen-containing polymers into hydrocarbon compounds

Paul Joseph Dyson, Xinbang Wu

The invention relates to a method for converting a polymer into hydrocarbon compounds, comprising the steps of a. contacting the polymer with a catalyst to provide a reaction mixture, wherein the polymer contains nitrogen in the polymer backbone, wherein t ...

2024

Controlling the selectivity of the hydrogenolysis of polyamides catalysed by ceria-supported metal nanoparticles

Paul Joseph Dyson, Wei-Tse Lee, Xinbang Wu, Roland Christopher Turnell-Ritson, Kun-Han Lin, Pauline Claire Louise Delannoi

Nature Research2023

Versatile palladium-catalyzed double carbonylation of aryl bromides

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Cornel Fink, Xinbang Wu

A versatile palladium-catalyzed double carbonylation of aryl bromides has been developed. Using Pd(OAc)2/BuPAd2 as the catalyst system and DBU as the base, under relatively low CO pressure, various a-ketoamides were produced in good yields. In order to get ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017