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Jonas C. Peters is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on materials science and energy.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Materials Science
  • Energy

Within these broader fields, their work delves into specialized subfields such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Catalysis
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Jonas C. Peters investigates a range of scientific topics related to their main fields, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins

Their publication record highlights several recent papers that illustrate the scope of their research:

  • "Molecular enhancement of heterogeneous CO2 reduction", 2020, published in Nature Materials
  • "Catalytic N2-to-NH3(or -N2H4) Conversion by Well-Defined Molecular Coordination Complexes", 2020, published in Chemical Reviews
  • "Cascade CO2 electroreduction enables efficient carbonate-free production of ethylene", 2021, published in Joule
  • "Photoinduced copper-catalysed asymmetric amidation via ligand cooperativity", 2021, published in Nature
  • "Tandem electrocatalytic N2 fixation via proton-coupled electron transfer", 2022, published in Nature

Frequent co-authors in Jonas C. Peters's research include:

  • Paul H. Oyala
  • Theodor Agapie
  • Nina X. Gu
  • Pablo Garrido-Barros
  • Nicholas B. Watkins

Publication venues where their work appears regularly comprise:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • ACS Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Benchmarking Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

    Charles C. L. McCrory;Suho Jung;Jonas C. Peters;Thomas F. Jaramillo

  • Benchmarking Hydrogen Evolving Reaction and Oxygen Evolving Reaction Electrocatalysts for Solar Water Splitting Devices

    Charles C. L. McCrory;Suho Jung;Ivonne M. Ferrer;Shawn M. Chatman

  • Molecular tuning of CO2-to-ethylene conversion.

    Fengwang Li;Arnaud Thevenon;Alonso Rosas-Hernández;Ziyun Wang

  • Catalytic conversion of nitrogen to ammonia by an iron model complex

    John S. Anderson;Jonathan Rittle;Jonas C. Peters

  • Asymmetric copper-catalyzed C-N cross-couplings induced by visible light.

    Quirin M. Kainz;Carson D. Matier;Agnieszka Bartoszewicz;Susan L. Zultanski

  • Synthetic control of excited-state properties in cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes using ancillary ligands.

    Jian Li;Peter I. Djurovich;Bert D. Alleyne;Muhammed Yousufuddin

  • Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution at low overpotentials by cobalt macrocyclic glyoxime and tetraimine complexes.

    Xile Hu;Bruce S. Brunschwig;Jonas C. Peters

  • Molecular enhancement of heterogeneous CO 2 reduction.

    Dae-Hyun Nam;Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Alonso Rosas-Hernández;Arnaud Thevenon

  • Benchmarking nanoparticulate metal oxide electrocatalysts for the alkaline water oxidation reaction

    Suho Jung;Charles C. L. McCrory;Ivonne M. Ferrer;Jonas C. Peters

  • E-Type Delayed Fluorescence of a Phosphine-Supported Cu2(μ-NAr2)2 Diamond Core: Harvesting Singlet and Triplet Excitons in OLEDs∥

    Joseph C. Deaton;Steven C. Switalski;Denis Y. Kondakov;Ralph H. Young

  • Photoinduced Ullmann C-N coupling: demonstrating the viability of a radical pathway.

    Sidney E. Creutz;Kenneth J. Lotito;Gregory C. Fu;Gregory C. Fu;Jonas C. Peters

  • Dinitrogen cleavage by three-coordinate molybdenum(III) complexes: Mechanistic and structural data

    Catalina E. Laplaza;Marc J. A. Johnson;Jonas C. Peters;Aaron L. Odom

  • A Tetrahedrally Coordinated L3Fe−Nx Platform that Accommodates Terminal Nitride (FeIV⋮N) and Dinitrogen (FeI−N2−FeI) Ligands

    Theodore A. Betley;Jonas C. Peters

  • Catalytic N2-to-NH3 (or -N2H4) Conversion by Well-Defined Molecular Coordination Complexes.

    Matthew J. Chalkley;Marcus W. Drover;Jonas C. Peters

  • Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed Decarboxylative C–N Coupling to Generate Protected Amines: An Alternative to the Curtius Rearrangement

    Wei Zhao;Ryan P. Wurz;Jonas C. Peters;Gregory C. Fu

  • Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution in Acidic Water with Molecular Cobalt Tetraazamacrocycles

    Charles C. L. McCrory;Christopher Uyeda;Jonas C. Peters

  • Reversible H2 addition across a nickel-borane unit as a promising strategy for catalysis.

    W. Hill Harman;Jonas C. Peters

  • A New Family of Nucleophiles for Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings via Single-Electron Transfer: Reactions of Thiols with Aryl Halides Under Mild Conditions (O °C)

    Christopher Uyeda;Yichen Tan;Gregory C. Fu;Jonas C. Peters

  • Dinitrogen chemistry from trigonally coordinated iron and cobalt platforms.

    Theodore A. Betley;Jonas C. Peters

  • Catalytic reduction of N2 to NH3 by an Fe-N2 complex featuring a C-atom anchor.

    Sidney E. Creutz;Jonas C. Peters

  • A Low-Spin d5 Iron Imide: Nitrene Capture by Low-Coordinate Iron(I) Provides the 4-Coordinate Fe(III) Complex [PhB(CH2PPh2)3]Fe⋮N-p-tolyl

    Steven D. Brown;Theodore A. Betley;Jonas C. Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory C. Fu
Gregory C. Fu California Institute of Technology
Neal P. Mankad
Neal P. Mankad University of Illinois at Chicago
Theodor Agapie
Theodor Agapie California Institute of Technology
Brian M. Hoffman
Brian M. Hoffman Northwestern University
David Jenkins
David Jenkins University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Thomas F. Jaramillo
Thomas F. Jaramillo Stanford University
Xile Hu
Xile Hu École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Alexander J. M. Miller
Alexander J. M. Miller University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Edward H. Sargent
Edward H. Sargent Northwestern University

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