gounder research group

May 2024: Congratulations to Brandon Bolton for graduating with a PhD and starting a new position at Ecovyst!

Mar. 2024: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa (and our collaborators) for his paper on how to control the placement of acid sites in MFI zeolites to increase the selectivity of toluene methylation to para-xylene being accepted in JACS!

Mar. 2024: Congratulations to Andrew Mikes and Lauren Kilburn on their concept paper regarding partial methane oxidation on Cu-zeolites being accepted in ChemCatChem!

Feb. 2024: Congratulations to Laura Wilcox (and our Notre Dame collaborators) for her paper regarding the structure and reactivity of active sites in Cu-CHA zeolites for partial methane oxidation being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

Jan. 2024: Congratulations to Ángel Santiago-Colón for his paper regarding the structural changes to active sites in Mo-MFI zeolites during methane dehydroaromatization being accepted in the Journal of Catalysis!

[100] Synthetic Placement of Active Sites in Zeolites for Selective Toluene Methylation to Para-Xylene, Ezenwa et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146 (2024) 10666-10678

[97] Structure and Reactivity of Binuclear Cu Active Sites in Cu-CHA Zeolites for Stoichiometric Partial Methane Oxidation to Methanol, Wilcox et al., ACS Catalysis, 14 (2024) 3647-3663

[96] Quantification of Extracrystalline Acid Sites in MFI Zeolites after Post-Synthetic Passivation Treatments using Mesitylene Benzylation Kinetics, Ezenwa et al., Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 9 (2024) 1096-1112

[95] Structural Changes to Molybdenum and Brønsted Acid Sites in MFI Zeolites During Methane Dehydroaromatization Reaction-Regeneration Cycles, Santiago-Colón et al., Journal of Catalysis, 430 (2024) 115335