Welcome to the Estes Group

Group of Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis at the University of Stuttgart

Publications

2025

S. Venkatesan, J. Mitzel, S. S. Ambu, T. Morawietz, I. Biswas, O. Recalde, E. Adabifiroozjaei, L. Molina‐Luna, D. P. Estes, K. Wegner et al., Advanced Energy Materials 2025, 15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202401659.

2024

 H.-H. Nguyen, M. Dyballa, D. P. Estes, Using Support Effects to Increase the Productivity of Immobilized Ruthenium Hydride Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of CO2, Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 23479. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03540.

E. J. Wimmer*, B. Atterberry*, S. Klostermann, W. Frey, J. Kästner,  A. Rossini, D. Estes, Structural Characterization of Surface Immobilized Platinum Hydrides by Sensitivity-Enhanced 195Pt Solid State NMR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations, 2024, Chem. Sci., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC06450J.

H.-H. Nguyen, M. Högler, N. Schnabel, N. Hansen, T. Sottmann, D. P. Estes, “Effects of Surfaces and Confinement on Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by an Immobilized Ru–H Complex: Insights from Molecular Simulation and Neutron Scattering”, ACS Catalysis 2024, 14, 11252, DOI:10.1021/acscatal.4c02626.

O. Bunjaku, J. Florenski, J. Wischnat, E. Klemm, O. V. Safonova, J. van Slageren, D. P. Estes, “Understanding the Reducibility of CeO2 Surfaces by Proton-Electron Transfer from CpCr(CO)3H”, Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 7512, DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01199. 

M. Benz, O. Bunjaku, M. Nowakowski, A. Allgaier, I. Biswas, J. van Slageren, M. Bauer, D. P. Estes, “Hydrogen spillover through hydride transfer: the reaction of ZnO and ZrO2 with strong hydride donors”, Catalysis Science & Technology 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D4CY00504J.

E. J. Wimmer, D. P. Estes, “Reversible Oxidative Additions of Weak Acids to Pd(0) Complexes: Effects on Pd–H-Catalyzed Enyne Cycloisomerization”, Organometallics 2024, 43, 1068, DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.4c00133.

S. E. Maier, T. Nagel, M. Turan, E. Kaya, W. Frey, M. Dyballa, D. P. Estes, “Comparison of the Catalytic Activity of Surface-Immobilized Copper Complexes with Phosphonate Anchoring Groups for Atom Transfer Radical Cyclizations and Additions”, Organometallics 2024, 43, 233, DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.3c00377.

2023

Marc Schnierle, Sina Klostermann, Elif Kaya, Zheng Li, Daniel Dittmann, Carolin Rieg, Deven P. Estes*, Johannes Kästner, Mark R. Ringenberg, and Michael Dyballa*, How Solid Surfaces Control Stability and Interactions of Supported Cationic CuI(dppf) Complexes─A Solid-State NMR Study, Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 19, 7283–7295. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00351 

Erik J. Wimmer, Sina V. Klostermann, Mark Ringenberg, Johannes Kästner, Deven P. Estes, Oxo-Bridged Zr dimers as well-defined models of oxygen vacancies on ZrO2, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2023. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202200709
Sarah E. Maier, Osman Bunjaku, Elif Kaya, Michael Dyballa, Wolfgang Frey and  Deven P. Estes, Surface Immobilized Cu-1,10-Phenanthroline Complexes with α-Aminophosphonate Groups in the 5-Position as Heterogenous Catalysts for Efficient Atom-Transfer Radical Cyclizations, Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 8442-8448. DOI: 10.1039/D3DT01467C

2022

 
Yuji Ikeda, Deven P. Estes, and Blazej Grabowski, Comprehensive Understanding of H Adsorption on MoO3 from Systematic Ab Initio Simulations, J. Phys. Chem. C 2022 126 (17), 7728-7738 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c01085.
Carolin Rieg,  Daniel Dittmann,  Zheng Li,  Dr. Robert Lawitzki,  Katrin Gugeler,  Sarah Maier,  Prof. Guido Schmitz,  Prof. Johannes Kästner,  Prof. Deven P. Estes,  Dr. Michael Dyballa, Quantitative Distinction between Noble Metals Located in Mesopores from Those on the External Surface, Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 17012 DOI:10.1002/chem.202102076

2021

Abdulhamid H. Almidani, Michael Benz, Mario Winkler, Yuji Ikeda, Blazej Grabowski, Joris van Slageren, Deven P. Estes, The reaction of HV(CO)4dppe with MoO3: a well-defined model of hydrogen spillover, Catal. Sci. Technol. Emerging Investigator Series, 2021, Advance Article. DOI:10.1039/D1CY01374B.

Carolin Rieg, Daniel Dittmann, Zheng Li, Dr. Robert Lawitzki, Katrin Gugeler, Sarah Maier, Prof. Guido Schmitz, Prof. Johannes Kästner, Prof. Deven P. Estes, Dr. Michael Dyballa, Quantitative Distinction between Noble Metals Located in Mesopores from Those on the External Surface, Chem. Eur. J., 2021, Early View. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202102076.

Hoang-Huy Nguyen, Zheng Li, Toni Enenkel, Joachim Hildebrand, Matthias Bauer, Michael Dyballa, and Deven P. Estes, Probing the Interactions of Immobilized Ruthenium Dihydride Complexes with Metal Oxide Surfaces by MAS NMR: Effects on CO2 Hydrogenation, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, 125, 14627. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c02074.

Sarah Maier, Steve P. Cronin, Manh-Anh Vu Dinh, Zheng Li, Michael Dyballa, Michal Nowakowski, Matthias Bauer, Deven P. Estes, Immobilized Platinum Hydride Species as Catalysts for Olefin Isomerizations and Enyne Cycloisomerizations, Organometallics, 2021, 40, 1751. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.1c00216.

Carolin Rieg, Daniel Dittmann, Zheng Li, Alan Kurtz, Isabelle Lorenz, Deven P.Estes, Michael Buchmeiser, Michael Dyballa, Michael Hunger, Noble metal location in porous supports determined by reaction with phosphines, Micropor. Mesopor. Mat., 2021, 310, 110594.

2020

Manuel Kirchhof, Katrin Gugeler, Felix Richard Fischer, Michal Nowakowski, Alina Bauer, Sonia Alvarez-Barcia, Karina Abitaev, Marc Schnierle, Yaseen Qawasmi, Wolfgang Frey, Angelika Baro, Deven P. Estes, Thomas Sottmann, Mark R. Ringenberg, Bernd Plietker, Matthias Bauer, Johannes Kästner, and Sabine Laschat, Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Role of Monomeric vs Dimeric Rhodium Oxazolidinone Norbornadiene Complexes in Catalytic Asymmetric 1,2- and 1,4-Additions, Organometallics, 2020, 39, 3131. 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00310

Deven P. Estes, Markus Leutzsch, Lukas Schubert, Alexis Bordet, Walter Leitner, The Effect of Ligand Electronics on the Reversible Catalytic Hydrogenation of CO2 to Formic Acid using Ruthenium Polyhydride Complexes: A Thermodynamic and Kinetic Study, ACS Catal., 2020, 10, 2990. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.0c00404

2018

Scott R. Docherty, Deven P. Estes, Christophe Copéret, Facile Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Trialkoxysilanols: (RO)2(R′O)SiOH, Helv. Chim. Acta, 2018, e1700298.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hlca.201700298

2017

Deven P. Estes, Christopher P. Gordon, Alexey Fedorov, Wei-Chih Liao, Henrike Ehrhorn, Celine Bittner, Manuel Luca Zier, Dirk Bockfeld, Ka Wing Chan, Odile Eisenstein, Christophe Raynaud, Matthias Tamm, Christophe Copéret, Molecular and Silica-Supported Molybdenum Alkyne Metathesis Catalysts: Influence of Electronics and Dynamics on Activity Revealed by Kinetics, Solid-State NMR, and Chemical Shift Analysis, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 17597.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.7b09934

Deven P. Estes, Amanda K. Cook, Erwin Lam, Louise Wong, Christophe Copéret, Understanding the Lewis Acidity of Co(II) Sites on a Silica Surface, Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 7731.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00443

Deven P. Estes, Mechanistic Investigations of C–H Activations on Silica-Supported Co (ii) Sites in Catalytic Propane Dehydrogenation, Chimia, 2017, 71, 177.
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/scs/chimia/2017/00000071/00000004/art00005

Murielle Delley, Marius Silaghi, Francisco Nuñez-Zarur, Kirill Kovtunov, Oleg Salnikov, Deven P. Estes, Igor Koptyug, Aleix Comas-Vives, Christophe Copéret, X-H Bond Activation on Cr(III),O Sites (X = R or H) : Key Steps in Dehydrogenation and Hydrogenation Processes, Organometallics, 2017, 36, 234.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00744

2016

Deven P. Estes, Georges Siddiqi, Florian Allouche, Kirill V. Kovtunov, Olga V. Safonova, Alexander L. Trigub, Igor V. Koptyug, Christophe Copéret, C-H activation on Co,O Sites: Isolated Surface Sites versus Molecular Analogues, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 14987.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.6b08705

Deven P. Estes, Celine Bittner, Òscar Àrias, Martin Casey, Alexey Fedorov, Matthias Tamm, and Christophe Copéret, Alkyne Metathesis at ppm Catalyst Loading, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 14166.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.201605129

Christophe Copéret, Deven P. Estes, Kim Larmier, Keith Searles, Isolated Surface Hydrides: Formation, Structure and Reactivity, Thematic Issue on Metal Hydrides, Chem. Rev. 2016, 116, 8463.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00082

Yue Hu, Anthony P. Shaw, Deven P. Estes, Jack R. Norton; Transition-Metal Hydride Cation Radicals, Thematic Issue on Metal Hydrides, Chem. Rev. 2016, 116, 8427.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00532

Christophe Copéret, Aleix Comas-Vives, Matthew P. Conley, Deven P. Estes, Alexey Fedorov, Victor Mougel, Haruki Nagae, Francisco Núñez-Zarur, Pavel A. Zhizhko; Surface Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry toward Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts: Strategies, Methods, Structures, and Activities, Chem. Rev. 2016, 116, 323.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00373

2015

Deven P. Estes, Christophe Copéret; The Role of Proton Transfer in Heterogeneous Transformations of Hydrocarbons, Chimia, 2015, 69, 321.
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/scs/chimia/2015/00000069/00000006/art00003

2014

Deven P. Estes, David C. Grills, Jack R. Norton; The Reaction of Cobaloximes with Hydrogen: Products and Thermodynamics, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17362.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja508200g

Gang Li, Deven P. Estes, Jack R. Norton, Serge Ruccollo, Aaron Sattler; Dihydrogen Activation by Cobaloximes with Various Axial Ligands, Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 10743.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic501975r

2013

Jay C. Poret, Anthony P. Shaw, Christopher M. Csernica, Karl D. Oyler, Deven P. Estes, Development and Performance of the W/Sb2O3/KIO4/ Lubricant Pyrotechnic Delay in the US Army Hand-Held Signal, Prop., Expl., Pyrotech. 2013, 38, 35.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prep.201200109

2012

Deven P. Estes, Jack R. Norton, Steffen Jockusch, Wesley Sattler; Mechanisms by which Alkynes React with CpCr(CO)3H. Application to Radical Cyclization, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 15512.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja306120n

Gang Li, Arthur Han, Mary E. Pulling, Deven P. Estes, Jack R. Norton; Evidence for Formation of a Co-H bond in (H2O)2Co(dmgBF2)2 under H2: Application to Radical Cyclization, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 14662.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja306037w

2011

Deven P. Estes, Aaron K. Vannucci, Ariel R. Hall, Dennis L. Lichtenberger, Jack R. Norton; Thermodynamics of the Metal – Hydrogen Bond in (η5-C5H5)M(CO)2H (M = Fe, Ru, Os), Organometallics 2011, 30, 3444.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om2001519

2010

Masaomi Matsumoto, Deven Estes, Kenneth M. Nicholas; Evolution of Metal Complex-Catalysts by Dynamic Templating with Transition State Analogs; Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2010, 12, 1847.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejic.201000129