20-Jan-2020
- Congratulations to
Mina Ghahremani
for her successful PhD final exam taken place today at the I
nstitute
for Advanced and Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran
Mina defended a Thesis entitled "Design and Preparation of Novel
Electrocatalysts and Catalysts Based on Ordered Mesoporous Silica
Functionalized with TEMPO and ABNO and Their Application in Oxidation
of Alcohols"
Well done Dr. Ghahremani!
Dr Ghahremani was a doctoral student in organic chemistry under
the supervision of
Prof. Babak Karimi,
Director of the IASBS. Mario Pagliaro was external advisor.
In 2018, she spent 6 months at Italy’s Research Council in the Labs led
by Dr Pagliaro.
Together the team has published a
series of important research articles ranging from a new and highly stable sol-gel catalytic electrode (dubbed
ZEmoEL)
for waste-free alcohol oxidations, through introducing a new
heterogeneous version of less molecularly hindered nitroxyl radicals
for the aerobic oxidation of alcohols under metal-free
conditions, to the development of a new gold-based spherical sol-gel
catalyst for solvent-free aerobic
oxidations.
"
It has been a wonderful perdiod of
my of my life" said Mina in a comment "
I had the opportunity to explore and
develop several new ideas, to learn a lot from practical experience and
from advanced education. I
wish to thank again Professor Karimi for being a
member of his research group in my PhD course and Dr. Pagliaro for the
stay at his nice group in Italy".
Research articles from Dr Ghahremani's Doctorate
- Babak Karimi, Mina Ghahremani, Rosaria Ciriminna, Mario Pagliaro,
“Enhancing the activity of ABNO@PMO-IL-Br catalyzed the aerobic
oxidation of alcohols and Self-Esterification of Primary Aliphatic
Alcohols through a Synergistic Relay Mechanism under Metal-Free
Conditions”, submitted
(2020).
- Rosaria Ciriminna, Mina Ghahremani, Babak Karimi, Rafael
Luque, Mario Pagliaro, “Single-Atom Catalysis: A Practically Viable
Technology?”, submitted
(2020). Preprint: https://doi.org//10.20944/preprints201809.0069.v1
- Mina Ghahremani, Rosaria Ciriminna, Valerica Pandarus, Antonino
Scurria, Valeria La Parola, Francesco Giordano, Giuseppe Avellone,
François Béland, Babak Karimi, Mario Pagliaro, "Green and Direct
Synthesis of Benzaldehyde and Benzyl Benzoate in One Pot", ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
6 (2018) 15441–15446. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b03893
- Babak Karimi, Mina Ghahremani, Rosaria Ciriminna, Mario Pagliaro,
“New Stable Catalytic Electrodes Functionalized with TEMPO for the
Waste-Free Oxidation of Alcohols”, Organic
Process Research & Development 22 (2018) 1298-1305. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.8b00156
- Rosaria Ciriminna, Mina Ghahremani, Babak Karimi, Mario Pagliaro,
"Electrochemical Alcohol Oxidation Mediated by TEMPO Nitroxyl
Radicals", ChemistryOpen 6
(2017) 5-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/open.201600086
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