Welcome to the Estes Group
Group of Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis at the University of Stuttgart
Publications
2026
Mustafa Turan, Felix Göttler, Sara Noack, Michael Benz, Deven P. Estes, The Role of Hydrogen Spillover on Ru/MoO3 in the Hydrodeoxygenation of Phenol as a Lignin Model Compound, ChemCatChem, 2026, 18, e01839, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202501839.
Erik Wimmer, Zeki Beydeda, Marc Högler, Nikolaj Wendland, Niels Hansen, Michael Dyballa, Deven P. Estes, Palladium Hydride Catalysts Confined in Silica Mesopores: Effects on Catalytic Enyne Cyclization, Organometallics, 2026, 45, 727-739, DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6c00033.
Selina Itzigehl, Tomm Ott, Anne-Kathrin Ströhle, Hoang-Huy Nguyen, Roham Talei, Nagme Ay, Maxwell W. Terban, Michael Dyballa, Guido Schmitz, Deven P. Estes, Johanna R. Bruckner, Efficient Synthesis of Well-Defined Ordered Mesoporous Aluminosilicates with Tailorable Acidity, Micro. Meso. Mater., 2026, 402, 113991, DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2025.113991.
2025
Manuel Kirchhof, Sanja Krause, Liam Rautenbach, Jakoba Wacker, Ann-Katrin Beurer, Hoang-Huy Nguyen, Wolfgang Frey, Yvonne Traa, Deven P. Estes, Anna Zens, Sabine Laschat, Development of a Copper-Free Click Reaction for Asymmetric Rh Diene Catalysis Under Confinement, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2025, 368, e70213, DOI: 10.1002/adsc.70213.
Erik Wimmer, Nikolaj Wendland, Deven P. Estes, Michael Dyballa, Properties of COOH-Functionalized Silica: A Particularly Weak Solid Acid, J. Phys. Chem. C 2025, 129, 12136 – 12149, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c02092.
Lea-Sophie Hornberger, Svenja Hiotidis, Shailja Jain, Michael Benz, Hugo Montan, Deven P. Estes, Johannes Kästner, Friederike Adams, Influence of the Substitution Pattern of Terpene-Based Seven-Membered Lactones on Yttrium-Mediated Ring-Opening Polymerization: A Kinetic and Mechanistic Investigation, Chem. Eur. J., 2025, e202501380, DOI: 10.1002/chem.202501380.
Yanina M. Dreer, Manuel Häßner, Deven P. Estes, Indro Biswas, Rainer Niewa, Characterization of Manganese and Titanium Co-substituted M-type Hexaferrites, Ceram. Inter., 2025, 34056 – 34067, DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2025.05.132.
Zarfishan Dilruba, Ardeshir D. Yeganeh, Sofia Kolin, Sadia Noor, Hassan Shatla, Carl Wieland, Bo-Hung Yu, Katrin Gugeler, Anna Zens, Johannes Kästner, Deven P. Estes, Kristyna Pluhackova, Simon Krause, Sabine Laschat, Linker-cluster Cooperativity in Confinement of Proline-Functionalized Zr-based Metal-Organic Frameworks and its Effect on the Organocatalytic Aldol Reaction, Inorg. Chem. Front. 2025, 5792 – 5802, DOI: 10.1039/D4QI02724H.
Benjamin Atterberry, Erik Wimmer, Sina Klostermann, Wolfgang Frey, Johannes Kästner, Deven P. Estes,* Aaron Rossini,* Structural Characterization of Surface Immobilized Platinum Hydrides by Sensitivity-Enhanced 195Pt Solid State NMR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations, Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 1271, DOI: 10.1039/D4SC06450J
Suriya Venkatesan, Jens Mitzel, Sambal Shashank Ambu, Tobias Morawietz, Indro Biswas, Oscar Recalde, Leopoldo Molina-Luna, Deven P. Estes, Karsten Wegner, Pawel Gazdzicki, Aldo Saul Gago, and Kaspar Andreas Friedrich, Rapid Scalable One-step Production of Catalysts for Low-Iridium Content Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers, Adv. Energ. Mater., 2025, 15, 2401659. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202401659.
2024
Hoang-Huy Nguyen, Michael Dyballa, Deven 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: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03540.
André Böth, Daniel Foshag, Charlotte Schulz, Boshra Atwi, Sarah E. Maier, Deven P. Estes, Michael R. Buchmeiser, Tom van de Goor, Ulrich Tallarek, Feed Injection in Liquid Chromatography, Reducing the Effect of Large-Volume Injections from Purely Organic Diluents, in Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography, J. Chromat. A 2024, 1730, 465165, DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2024.465165.
Hoang-Huy Nguyen, Marc Högler, Nadine Schnabel, Niels Hansen, Thomas Sottmann, Deven P. Estes*, The Effects of Surfaces and Confinement on Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by an Immobilized Ru-H Complex: Insights from Molecular Simulation and Neutron Scattering, ACS Catal., 2024, 14, 11252, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.4c02626.
Michael Benz, Osman Bunjaku, Michal Nowakowski, Alexander Allgaier, Indro Biswas, Joris van Slageren, Matthias Bauer, Deven P. Estes,* Hydrogen Spillover through Hydride Transfer: The Reaction of ZnO and ZrO2 with Strong Hydride Donors, Catal. Sci. Technol. 2024, 14, 5854, DOI: 10.1039/D4CY00504J.
Lorena Fritch, Pia Rehsies, Wael Barakat, Deven P. Estes, Matthias Bauer, Detection and Characterization of Hydride Ligands in Copper Complexes by Hard X-ray Spectroscopy, Chem. Eur. J., 2024, 30, e202400357, DOI: 10.1002/chem.202400357.
Erik Wimmer, Deven 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.
Osman Bunjaku, Jan Florenski, Jonathan Wischnat, Elias Klemm, Olga V. Safonova, Joris van Slageren, Deven 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.
Sarah E. Maier, Thomas Nagel, Mustafa Turan, Elif Kaya, Wolfgang Frey, Michael Dyballa, Deven 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
Sarah E. Maier, Osman Bunjaku, Elif Kaya, Michael Dyballa, Wolfgang Frey, 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. DOI: 10.1039/D3DT01467C.
Marc Schnierle, Sina V. Klostermann, Elif Kaya, Zheng Li, Daniel Dittmann, Carolin Rieg, Deven P. Estes*, Johannes Kästner, Mark Ringenberg, Michael Dyballa*, How Solid Surfaces Control Stability and Interactions of Supported Cationic CuI(dppf) Complexes – a Solid-state NMR Study, Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 7283. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00351.
Benjamin A. Atterberry, Erik J. Wimmer, Deven P. Estes, Aaron J. Rossini, Acceleration of Indirect Detection 195Pt Solid-State NMR Experiments by Sideband Selective Excitation or Alternative Indirect Sampling Schemes, J. Mag. Res., 2023, 352, 107457. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2023.107457.
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, e202200709. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202200709.
2022
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
