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Jordi Benet-Buchholz

Jordi Benet-Buchholz

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Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
15184
World Ranking
5964
National Ranking
167

Overview

Jordi Benet-Buchholz is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of Materials Science with a strong emphasis on Materials Chemistry. Their research spans related subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Inorganic Chemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, and carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis.

Jordi Benet-Buchholz has published frequently in key scientific venues. These include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Their recent scientific papers illustrate a focus on water oxidation catalysis and coordination chemistry, with notable publications such as:

  • Water oxidation electrocatalysis using ruthenium coordination oligomers adsorbed on multiwalled carbon nanotubes, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Redox Metal-Ligand Cooperativity Enables Robust and Efficient Water Oxidation Catalysis at Neutral pH with Macrocyclic Copper Complexes, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Second Coordination Sphere Effects in an Evolved Ru Complex Based on Highly Adaptable Ligand Results in Rapid Water Oxidation Catalysis, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Isolation of a Ru(iv) side-on peroxo intermediate in the water oxidation reaction, 2021, Nature Chemistry
  • Consecutive Ligand-Based Electron Transfer in New Molecular Copper-Based Water Oxidation Catalysts, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Antoni Llobet, Carolina Gimbert-Suriñach, Marcos Gil-Sepulcre, Arjan W. Kleij, and Pablo Garrido-Barros, reflecting sustained partnerships in advancing their research themes.

Best Publications

  • A new Ru complex capable of catalytically oxidizing water to molecular dioxygen

    Cristina Sens;Isabel Romero;Montserrat Rodríguez;Antoni Llobet

  • Cover Picture: Inclusion of Cavitands and Calix[4]arenes into a Metallobridged para‐(1H‐Imidazo[4,5‐f][3,8]phenanthrolin‐2‐yl)‐Expanded Calix[4]arene (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1‐2/2007)

    Enrique Botana;Eric Da Silva;Jordi Benet‐Buchholz;Pablo Ballester

  • Cationic eta(1)/eta(2)-gold(I) complexes of simple arenes.

    Elena Herrero-Gómez;Cristina Nieto-Oberhuber;Salomé López;Jordi Benet-Buchholz

  • Stereospecific C ? H Oxidation with H2O2 Catalyzed by a Chemically Robust Site‐Isolated Iron Catalyst

    Laura Gómez;Isaac Garcia-Bosch;Jordi Benet-Buchholz

  • Direct Cupration of Fluoroform

    Alessandro Zanardi;Maxim A. Novikov;Eddy Martin;Jordi Benet-Buchholz

  • Redox Non-innocent Ligand Controls Water Oxidation Overpotential in a New Family of Mononuclear Cu-Based Efficient Catalysts.

    Pablo Garrido-Barros;Ignacio Funes-Ardoiz;Samuel Drouet;Jordi Benet-Buchholz

  • Cationic η1/η2-Gold(I) Complexes of Simple Arenes†

    Elena Herrero-Gómez;Cristina Nieto-Oberhuber;Salomé López;Jordi Benet-Buchholz

  • Intramolecular Proton Transfer Boosts Water Oxidation Catalyzed by a Ru Complex

    Roc Matheu;Mehmed Z. Ertem;Jordi Benet-Buchholz;Eugenio Coronado

  • An Efficient Iron Catalyst for the Synthesis of Five‐ and Six‐Membered Organic Carbonates under Mild Conditions

    Christopher J. Whiteoak;Eddy Martin;Marta Martínez Belmonte;Jordi Benet-Buchholz

  • The Ru−Hbpp Water Oxidation Catalyst

    Fernando Bozoglian;Sophie Romain;Mehmed Z. Ertem;Tanya Kumanova Todorova

  • Efficient carbonate synthesis under mild conditions through cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to oxiranes using a Zn(salphen) catalyst.

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  • [(NHC)CuX] complexes: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic activities in reduction reactions and Click Chemistry. On the advantage of using well-defined catalytic systems

    Silvia Díez-González;Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán;Jordi Benet-Buchholz;Edwin D. Stevens

  • Quantitative Evaluation of Anion–π Interactions in Solution

    Guzmán Gil-Ramírez;Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán;Jordi Benet-Buchholz;Pablo Ballester

  • NO-independent stimulators of soluble guanylate cyclase.

    Alexander Straub;Johannes-Peter Stasch;Cristina Alonso-Alija;Jordi Benet-Buchholz

  • Anion influence on the structures of a series of copper(II) metal-organic frameworks.

    Pilar Díaz;Jordi Benet-Buchholz;Ramón Vilar;Andrew J P White

  • Effects of Metal Coordination Geometry on Stabilization of Human Telomeric Quadruplex DNA by Square-Planar and Square-Pyramidal Metal Complexes

    Anna Arola-Arnal;Jordi Benet-Buchholz;Stephen Neidle;Ramón Vilar

  • Facile C―H Bond Cleavage via a Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Involving a C―H···CuII Interaction

    Xavi Ribas;Carlos Calle;Albert Poater;Alicia Casitas

  • Experimental and theoretical investigations of new dinuclear palladium complexes as precatalysts for the amination of aryl chlorides.

    Ute Christmann;Dimitrios A Pantazis;Jordi Benet-Buchholz;John E McGrady

  • Easy Access to the Copper(III) Anion [Cu(CF3)4]−

    Andrew M. Romine;Noel Nebra;Andrey I. Konovalov;Eddy Martin

  • Cinnabaramides A-G: analogues of lactacystin and salinosporamide from a terrestrial streptomycete.

    Marc Stadler;Jens Bitzer;Anke Mayer-Bartschmid;Hartwig Müller

  • Shape-persistent octanuclear zinc salen clusters: synthesis, characterization, and catalysis.

    Robert M. Haak;Antonello Decortes;Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán;Marta Martínez Belmonte

  • Effective Chirogenesis in a Bis(metallosalphen) Complex through Host–Guest Binding with Carboxylic Acids

    Sander J. Wezenberg;Giovanni Salassa;Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán;Jordi Benet-Buchholz

Frequent Co-Authors

Antoni Llobet
Antoni Llobet Autonomous University of Barcelona
Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán
Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Arjan W. Kleij
Arjan W. Kleij Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Teodor Parella
Teodor Parella Autonomous University of Barcelona
Roland Boese
Roland Boese University of Duisburg-Essen
Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen
Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
Albert Poater
Albert Poater University of Girona
Feliu Maseras
Feliu Maseras Institut Català d'Investigació Química
Pablo Ballester
Pablo Ballester Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Miquel Solà
Miquel Solà University of Girona

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