Recent Publications

Unlocking the potential for pseudo-molecular catalysts via understanding the activity of transition metal ionic species in zeolites

Christian Schroeder, Maricruz Sanchez-Sanchez, Chem Catalysis 2024, 4, 101130. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.checat.2024.101130, opens an external URL in a new window

Direct methane utilization through benzene dehydroalkylation catalyzed by Co2+ sites in ZSM-5 intersections

Martina Aigner, Stijn Van Daele, Delphine Minoux, Nikolai Nesterenko, Ruixue Zhao, Martin Baumgärtl, Rachit Khare, Andreas Jentys, Christian Schroeder, Maricruz Sanchez-Sanchez, Johannes A. Lercher, J. Catal. 2024, 438, 115686. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2024.115686 , opens an external URL in a new window

Speciation and Reactivity Control of Cu-Oxo Clusters via Extraframework Al in Mordenite for Methane Oxidation

Lei Tao, Elena Khramenkova, Insu Lee, Takaaki Ikuno, Rachit Khare, Andreas Jentys, John L. Fulton, AlexanderA. Kolganov, Evgeny A. Pidko,* Maricruz Sanchez-Sanchez,* and Johannes A. Lercher*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 17710-17719. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c04328, opens an external URL in a new window

Structural evolution after oxidative pretreatment and CO oxidation of Au nanoclusters with different ligand shell composition: a view on the Au core

Truttmann, V., Schrenk, F., Marini, C., Palma, M., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Rameshan, C., Agostini. G., Barrabes, N., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 2023, 25, 3622-3628. DOI: 10.1039/D2CP04498F , opens an external URL in a new window

Speciation of Cu-oxo clusters in FER for selective oxidation of methane to methanol

Tao, L., Lee, I., Khare, R., Jentys, A., Fulton, J.L., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Lercher, J.A., Chemistry of Materials 2022, 34, 10, 4355–4363. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c04249, opens an external URL in a new window

 

Selected Publications

Maricruz Sánchez-Sánchez' complete publication lists can be found here: ORCID, opens an external URL in a new window SCOPUS, opens an external URL in a new window

10. Mechanistic differences between methanol and dimethyl ether in zeolite-catalyzed hydrocarbon synthesis

Kirchberger, F.M., Liu, Y., Plessow, P.N., Tonigold, M., Studt, F., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Lercher, J.A., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2022, 119, art. no. e2103840119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2103840119, opens an external URL in a new window

9. Activity of Cu–Al–Oxo Extra-Framework Clusters for Selective Methane Oxidation on Cu-Exchanged Zeolites

Lee, I., Lee, M.-S., Tao, L., Ikuno, T., Khare, R., Jentys, A., Hutwelker, T., Borca, C.N., Kalinko, A., Gutiérrez, O.Y., Govind, N., Fulton, J.L., Hu, J.Z., Glezakou, V.-A., Rousseau, R., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Lercher, J.A., JACS Au 2021, 1, 1412-1421. DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00196 , opens an external URL in a new window

8. Cu oxo nanoclusters for direct oxidation of methane to methanol: Formation, structure and catalytic performance

Tao, L., Lee, I., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Catalysis Science and Technology 2020, 10, 7124-7141.  DOI: 10.1039/d0cy01325k, opens an external URL in a new window

7. Design and synthesis of highly active MoVTeNb-oxides for ethane oxidative dehydrogenation

Melzer, D., Mestl, G., Wanninger, K., Zhu, Y., Browning, N.D., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Lercher, J.A., Nature Communications 2019, 10, art. no. 4012.  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11940-0, opens an external URL in a new window

6. Critical role of formaldehyde during methanol conversion to hydrocarbons

Liu, Y., Kirchberger, F.M., Müller, S., Eder, M., Tonigold, M., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Lercher, J.A., Nature Communications 2019, 10, art. no. 1462. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09449-7, opens an external URL in a new window

5. Role of Spatial Constraints of Brønsted Acid Sites for Adsorption and Surface Reactions of Linear Pentenes

Schallmoser, S., Haller, G.L., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Lercher, J.A., Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 8646-8652. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b03690, opens an external URL in a new window

4. Formation of Oxygen Radical Sites on MoVNbTeOx by Cooperative Electron Redistribution

Zhu, Y., Sushko, P.V., Melzer, D., Jensen, E., Kovarik, L., Ophus, C., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Lercher, J.A., Browning, N.D., Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 12342-12345. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05240, opens an external URL in a new window

3. Atomic-Scale Determination of Active Facets on the MoVTeNb Oxide M1 Phase and Their Intrinsic Catalytic Activity for Ethane Oxidative Dehydrogenation

Melzer, D., Xu, P., Hartmann, D., Zhu, Y., Browning, N.D., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Lercher, J.A., Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 2016, 55, 8873-8877. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201600463, opens an external URL in a new window

2. Hydrogen Transfer Pathways during Zeolite Catalyzed Methanol Conversion to Hydrocarbons

Müller, S., Liu, Y., Kirchberger, F.M., Tonigold, M., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Lercher, J.A., Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016, 138, 15994-16003. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b09605, opens an external URL in a new window

1. Single-site trinuclear copper oxygen clusters in mordenite for selective conversion of methane to methanol

Grundner, S., Markovits, M.A.C., Li, G., Tromp, M., Pidko, E.A., Hensen, E.J.M., Jentys, A., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Lercher, J.A., Nature Communications 2015, 6, art. no. 7546.DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8546, opens an external URL in a new window

 

Individual Publication Lists

Christian Schröder's complete publication lists can be found here: ORCID, opens an external URL in a new window SCOPUS, opens an external URL in a new window

13. Direct methane utilization through benzene dehydroalkylation catalyzed by Co2+ sites in ZSM-5 intersections

Martina Aigner, Stijn Van Daele, Delphine Minoux, Nikolai Nesterenko, Ruixue Zhao, Martin Baumgärtl, Rachit Khare, Andreas Jentys, Christian Schroeder, Maricruz Sanchez-Sanchez, Johannes A. Lercher, J. Catal. 2024, 438, 115686. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2024.115686 , opens an external URL in a new window

12. Use of Borosilicate Seeds to Synthesize Aluminosilicate SSZ-82, a Zeolite Containing Intersecting 12- and 10-Membered Ring Channels

Christopher M. Lew, Dan Xie, Kurt O. Jensen, Christian Schroeder, Jonas Blaser, Hubert Koller, and Stacey I. Zones, Chem. Mater. 2023, 35, 6141–6151. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01274, opens an external URL in a new window

11. Spatial Proximities between Brønsted Acid Sites, AlOH Groups, and Residual NH4+ Cations in Zeolites Mordenite and Ferrierite

Schroeder, C.; Hansen, M.R.; Koller, H., J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127, 736-745. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c07346, opens an external URL in a new window

10. Cooperativity of silanol defect chemistry in zeolites

Chen, Y.-F.; Schroeder, C.; Lew, C.M.; Zones, S.I.; Koller, H.; Sierka, M., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2023, 25, 478-485. DOI: 10.1039/D2CP05218K, opens an external URL in a new window

9. Ordered Heteroatom Siting Preserved by B/Al Exchange in Zeolites

Schroeder, C., Lew, C.M., Zones, S.I., Koller, H., Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 3479–3488. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00359, opens an external URL in a new window

8. Hydrogen Bonds Dominate Brønsted Acid Sites in Zeolite SSZ-42: A Classification of Their Diversity

Schroeder, C., Zones, S.I., Hansen, M.R., Koller, H., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202109313. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202109313, opens an external URL in a new window

7. Characterization of a Molecule Partially Confined at the Pore Mouth of a Zeotype

Grosso-Giordano, N.A., Schroeder, C., Xu, L., Solovyov, A., Small, D.W., Koller, H., Zones, S.I., Katz, A., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 10239-10246. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202100166, opens an external URL in a new window

6. High Aluminum Ordering in SSZ-59: Residual 1H-27Al Dipolar Coupling Effects in 1H MAS NMR Spectra of Brønsted Acid Sites in Zeolites

Schroeder, C., Zones, S.I., Mück-Lichtenfeld, C., Hansen, M.R., Koller, H., J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 4869-4877. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c11379, opens an external URL in a new window

5. Disentangling Brønsted Acid Sites and Hydrogen-Bonded Silanol Groups in High-Silica Zeolite H-ZSM-5

Schroeder, C., Siozios, V., Hunger, M., Hansen, M.R., Koller, H., J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124, 23380-23386. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06113, opens an external URL in a new window

4. A Stable Silanol Triad in the Zeolite Catalyst SSZ-70

Schroeder, C., Mück-Lichtenfeld, C., Xu, L., Grosso-Giordano, N.A., Okrut, A., Chen, C.-Y., Zones, S.I., Katz, A., Hansen, M.R., Koller, H., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 10939-10943. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202001364, opens an external URL in a new window

3. Hydrogen Bond Formation of Brønsted Acid Sites in Zeolites

Schroeder, C., Siozios, V., Mück-Lichtenfeld, C., Hunger, M., Hansen, M.R., Koller, H., Chem. Mater. 2020, 32 1564-1574. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b04714, opens an external URL in a new window

2. Ultrastabilization of Zeolite Y Transforms Brønsted–Brønsted Acid Pairs into Brønsted–Lewis Acid Pairs

Schroeder, C., Hansen, M.R., Koller, H., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 14281-14285. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201808395, opens an external URL in a new window

1. Outer-Sphere Control of Catalysis on Surfaces: A Comparative Study of Ti(IV) Single-Sites Grafted on Amorphous versus Crystalline Silicates for Alkene Epoxidation

Grosso-Giordano, N.A., Schroeder, C., Okrut, A., Solovyov, A., Schöttle, C., Chassé, W., Marinković, N., Koller, H., Zones, S.I., Katz, A., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 4956-4960. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b11467, opens an external URL in a new window

 

1. Structural evolution after oxidative pretreatment and CO oxidation of Au nanoclusters with different ligand shell composition: a view on the Au core

Truttmann, V., Schrenk, F., Marini, C., Palma, M., Sanchez-Sanchez, M., Rameshan, C., Agostini. G., Barrabes, N., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 2023, Accepted Manuscript. DOI: 10.1039/D2CP04498F , opens an external URL in a new window

Coming Soon!

1. Dynamic behaviour of platinum and copper dopants in gold nanoclusters supported on ceria catalysts

Nicole Müller, Rareş Banu, Adea Loxha, Florian Schrenk, Lorenz Lindenthal, Christoph Rameshan, Ernst Pittenauer, Jordi Llorca, Janis Timoshenko, Carlo Marini, and Noelia Barrabés, Communications Chemistry 2023, 6, 277. DOI: 10.1038/s42004-023-01068-0 , opens an external URL in a new window