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2026

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D-Index
95
Citations
41095
World Ranking
1597
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Jairton Dupont is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, and Energy. Within these domains, key subfields include Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Catalysis, Organic Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably ionic liquids properties and applications, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, advanced photocatalysis techniques, catalytic processes in materials science, crystallization and solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Ionic Liquids in Metal, Photo-, Electro-, and (Bio) Catalysis" (2024, Chemical Reviews)
  • "Use of an optofluidic microreactor and Cu nanoparticles synthesized in ionic liquid and embedded in TiO2 for an efficient photoreduction of CO2 to methanol" (2020, Chemical Engineering Journal)
  • "Imidazolium based ionic liquid-phase green catalytic reactions" (2023, Green Chemistry)
  • "Catalyst design for highly efficient carbon dioxide hydrogenation to formic acid under buffering conditions" (2020, Journal of Catalysis)
  • "The Nature of Carbon Dioxide in Bare Ionic Liquids" (2020, ChemSusChem)

Frequent co-authors throughout their career include Muhammad I. Qadir, Pedro Lozano, Gustavo Chacón, Jesum Alves Fernandes, and Graciane Marin.

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Green Chemistry, ChemSusChem, Journal of Catalysis, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In recognition of scholarly contributions, Jairton Dupont was named Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Ionic liquid (molten salt) phase organometallic catalysis.

    Jairton Dupont;Roberto F. de Souza;Paulo A. Z. Suarez

  • The potential of palladacycles: more than just precatalysts

    Jairton Dupont;Crestina S Consorti;John Spencer

  • On the solid, liquid and solution structural organization of imidazolium ionic liquids

    Jairton Dupont

  • The use of new ionic liquids in two-phase catalytic hydrogenation reaction by rhodium complexes

    Paulo A.Z. Suarez;Jeane E.L. Dullius;Sandra Einloft;Roberto F. De Souza

  • Transition-Metal Nanoparticles in Imidazolium Ionic Liquids: Recycable Catalysts for Biphasic Hydrogenation Reactions

    Jairton Dupont;Gledison S Fonseca;Alexandre P Umpierre;Paulo F P Fichtner

  • On the structural and surface properties of transition-metal nanoparticles in ionic liquids

    Jairton Dupont;Jackson D. Scholten

  • Synthesis and physical-chemical properties of ionic liquids based on 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium cation

    P. A.Z. Suarez;S. Einloft;J. E.L. Dullius;R. F. de Souza

  • Preparation of 1-Butyl-3-Methyl Imidazolium-Based Room Temperature Ionic Liquids

    Jairton Dupont;Crestina S. Consorti;Paulo A. Z. Suarez;Roberto F. de Souza

  • Water-induced accelerated ion diffusion: voltammetric studies in 1-methyl-3-[2,6-(S)-dimethylocten-2-yl]imidazolium tetrafluoroborate, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate and hexafluorophosphate ionic liquids

    Uwe Schröder;Jay D. Wadhawan;Richard G. Compton;Frank Marken

  • Catalytic Applications of Metal Nanoparticles in Imidazolium Ionic Liquids

    Pedro Migowski;Jaïrton Dupont

  • The use of imidazolium ionic liquids for the formation and stabilization of ir0 and rh0 nanoparticles: efficient catalysts for the hydrogenation of arenes.

    Gledison S. Fonseca;Alexandre P. Umpierre;Paulo F. P. Fichtner;Sergio R. Teixeira

  • From Molten Salts to Ionic Liquids: A “Nano” Journey

    Jairton Dupont

  • Physico-chemical processes in imidazolium ionic liquids.

    Jairton Dupont;Paulo A. Z. Suarez

  • Transition Metal Nanoparticle Catalysis in Ionic Liquids

    Jackson D. Scholten;Bárbara Caroline Leal;Jairton Dupont

  • Nanoscale Pt(0) particles prepared in imidazolium room temperature ionic liquids: synthesis from an organometallic precursor, characterization, and catalytic properties in hydrogenation reactions.

    Carla W. Scheeren;Giovanna Machado;Jairton Dupont;Paulo F. P. Fichtner

  • The role of Pd nanoparticles in ionic liquid in the Heck reaction.

    Claudia C. Cassol;Alexandre P. Umpierre;Giovanna Machado;Silvana I. Wolke

  • Room temperature dialkylimidazolium ionic liquid-based fuel cells

    Roberto F. de Souza;Janine C. Padilha;Reinaldo S. Gonçalves;Jairton Dupont

  • Selective Catalytic Hydrodimerization of 1,3-Butadiene by Palladium Compounds Dissolved in Ionic Liquids

    Jeane E. L. Dullius;Paulo A. Z. Suarez;Sandra Einloft;and Roberto F. de Souza

  • NiCl2(PCy3)2: A Simple and Efficient Catalyst Precursor for the Suzuki Cross-Coupling of Aryl Tosylates and Arylboronic Acids

    Danilo Zim;Vanusa R. Lando;Jairton Dupont;Adriano L. Monteiro

  • Palladacycles − An Old Organometallic Family Revisited: New, Simple, and Efficient Catalyst Precursors for Homogeneous Catalysis

    Jairton Dupont;Michel Pfeffer;John Spencer

Frequent Co-Authors

G. Nagaraju
G. Nagaraju Visvesvaraya Technological University
Michel Pfeffer
Michel Pfeffer University of Ulm
Marcos N. Eberlin
Marcos N. Eberlin Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Frank Rominger
Frank Rominger Heidelberg University
Liane M. Rossi
Liane M. Rossi Universidade de São Paulo
Frank H. Quina
Frank H. Quina Universidade de São Paulo
Fabio C. Gozzo
Fabio C. Gozzo State University of Campinas
Richard G. Compton
Richard G. Compton University of Oxford
Frank Marken
Frank Marken University of Bath
H. Nagabhushana
H. Nagabhushana Tumkur University

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