个人简介

B.Sc in Chemistry (2001, Ecole Polytechnique) M.Sc. (Chemistry, 2002, Ecole Polytechnique) Ph.D. (Chemistry, 2005, Ecole Polytechnique) Post-doctoral Fellow (2006-2007, Yale University) Lavoisier Post-doctoral Fellowship (2005-2006), Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (2005, Ecole Polytechnique ) Science Communication Fellowships for Green Chemistry, 2011, awarded by Environmental Health News and Advancing Green Chemistry.

研究领域

Materials Chemistry Synthesis/Catalysis

Research Interests: Nanoparticles and Catalysis for Green Chemistry Our group focuses on synthesising, characterizing and studying novel, and simple catalysts, based on metal nanoparticles, ionic liquids and/or cellulose nanocrystals in order to propose innovative and recyclable catalysts for organic reactions. Axis 1 - Magnetic Nanoparticles as Green Catalysts: We use iron oxides, reduced iron and mixed iron/transition metal nanoparticles as simple, stabilizer-free and non-functionalized magnetic nanocatalysts for green organic synthesis. We study reactions of coupling, hydrogenation, C-H activiation and oxidation. We recently demonstratated that iron-iron oxide core-shell nanoparticles are active in the hydrogenation of olefins in ethanol and in the presence of water Axis 2 - Functionalized Ionic Liquids as Improved Stabilizers of Nanocatalysts.: We synthesized a family of functionalized ionic liquids composed of phosphines or thiols linked to an imidazolium ring through an alkyl spacer. These stabilizers serve in the synthesis of transition metal nanoparticles. We used the phosphine/imidazolium series to stabilize palladium and rhodium NPs. These FIL stabilized NPs were active and recyclable catalysts for the hydrogenation of alkenes and arenes under mild conditions. We reported a dependence of the catalytic activity on the structural parameters of the FIL. Axis 3 - Functionalized Ionic Liquids as Improved Stabilizers of Nanocatalysts.: Cellulose Nanocrystallites (CNCs) are nano whiskers (150 x 5 nm) composed of highly crystalline cellulose. This material can be processed from wood and has found applications as a coating agent and reinforcing material. We very recently showed that this material could also be used to support palladium nanoparticles, and fabricated a well defined hybrid material, PdNPs@CNCs, consisting of monodisperse PdNPs evenly deposited onto colloidal CNCs. The resulting material was active in the hydrogenation of phenol to cyclohexanone in water under very mild conditions and the Heck coupling

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M. Masnadi, N. Yao, N. Braidy, A. Moores,* “Cu(II) Galvanic Reduction and Deposition onto Iron Nano- and Microparticles: Resulting Morphologies and Growth Mechanisms", Langmuir 2015, 31(2), 789-798. M. J. Rak, M. Lerro, A. Moores,* “Hollow Iron Oxide Nanoparticles are Selective Oxidation Catalysts of Styrene using Molecular Oxygen”, Chem. Comm. 2014, 50, 12482-12485. R. Hudson, Y. Feng, R.S. Varma, A. Moores*, “Bare Magnetic Nanoparticles: Sustainable Synthesis and Applications in Catalytic Organic Transformations”, Green Chem., 2014, 16, 4493-4505 S. Ishikawa, H. Reuben, M. Masnadi Khiabani, M. Bateman, A. Castonguay, A. Moores*, C.-J. Li*, “Cyclopropanation of diazoesters with styrene derivatives catalyzed by magnetically recoverable copper-plated iron nanoparticles”, Tetrahedron, 2014, 70, 36, 6162–6168. (Invited contribution to the special “Nanotek for organic synthesis, and organic synthesis for nanotek”) M. J. Rak, T. Friščić, A. Moores*, “Mechanochemical synthesis of Au, Pd, Ru and Re nanoparticles with lignin as a bio-based reducing agent and stabilizing matrix”, Faraday Discuss. 2014, 170, 155-167. M. Kaushik, W. C. Chen, T. G. M. van de Ven, A. Moores*, “Imaging Cellulose Nanocrystals by Transmission Electron Spectroscopy”, Nordic Pulp and Paper Res. J., 2014, 29 (1), 77-84. (Invited contribution to the special on Nanocellulose) M. J. Rak, N. K. Saadé, T. Friščić, A. Moores*, “Mechanochemical Synthesis of Ultrasmall Monodisperse Amine-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles with Controllable Size”, Green Chem., 2013,16 (1), 86-89. R. Hudson, S. Ishikawa, C.J. Li,* A. Moores,* “Magnetically Recoverable CuFe2O4 Nanoparticles as Highly Active Catalysts for Csp3-Csp and Csp3-Csp3 Oxidative Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling”, Synlett, 2013, 24, 1637-1642. R. Hudson, G. Hamasaka, T. Osako Y.Y.A. Yamada, C.J. Li, Y. Uozumi,* A. Moores,* “Highly Efficient Iron(0) Nanoparticle-Catalyzed Hydrogenation in Water in Flow”, Green Chem., 2013, 15, 2141-2148. T.T. Schug*, R. Abagyan, B. Blumberg, T.J. Collins, D. Crews, P.L. DeFur, S.M. Dickerson, T.M. Edwards, A.C. Gore, L.J. Guillette, T. Hayes, J.J. Heindel, A. Moores, H.B. Patisaul, T.L. Tal, K.A. Thayer, L.N. Vandenberg, J. Warner, C.S. Watson, F.S. vom Saal, R.T. Zoeller, K.P. O’Brien,* J.P. Myers,* “Designing Endocrine Disruption Out of the Next Generation of Chemicals”, Green Chem., 2013, 15, 181-198. S. Ishikawa, R. Hudson, A. Moores,* C. J. Li,* “Ligand modified CuFe2O4 nanoparticles as magnetically recoverable and reusable catalyst for azide-alkyne click condensation”, Heterocycle, 2012, 86 (2), 1970. (Invited contribution to the special issue in the honour of Ei-ichi Negishi) K. L. Luska, K.Z. Demmans, S. A. Stratton, A. Moores,* “Higher Alkene Hydroformylation Catalyzed by Rhodium Complexes Stabilized by Phosphine-Functionalized Phosphonium Ionic Liquids: Influence of the Phosphonium Headgroup on Catalytic Activity”, Dalton Trans., 2012, 41 (43), 13533 - 13540. (Invited contribution to the special issue in the honour of David Cole-Hamilton) K. L. Luska, A. Moores,* “Ruthenium Nanoparticle Catalysts Stabilized in Phosphonium and Imidazolium Ionic Liquids: Dependence of Catalyst Stability and Activity on the Ionicity of the Ionic Liquid”, Green Chem., 2012, 14, 1736-1742. R. Hudson, C. J. Li,* A. Moores,* “Magnetic copper–iron nanoparticles as simple heterogeneous catalysts for the azide–alkyne click reaction in water”, Green Chem., 2012, 14, 622-624. R. Hudson, A. Rivière, C. M. Cirtiu, K. L. Luska, A. Moores,* “Simple and stable iron nanoparticles as magnetically recoverable and selective olefin and alkyne hydrogenation catalysts in ethanol as a solvent”, Chem. Comm., 2012, 48, 3360-3362. K. L. Luska,* A. Moores,* “Functionalized Ionic Liquids for the Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles”, ChemCatChem 2012, 4 (10), 1534–1546. (Invited contribution to the special issue “Synthesis of Nanocatalysts”) S. A. Stratton, K.L. Luska, A. Moores,* “Rhodium Nanoparticles Stabilized with Phosphine Functionalized Imidazolium Ionic Liquids as Recyclable Arene Hydrogenation Catalysts”, Catal. Today, 2012, 183, 96-100 (Invited contribution to the special issue in the honor of Prof. Yuan Kou) K. L. Luska, A. Moores,* “Rational Size Control of Gold Nanoparticles Employing an Organometallic Precursor [Au-C≡C-tBu]4 and Tunable Thiolate Functionalized Ionic Liquids”, Can. J. Chem., 2012, 90(1) 145-152. (Invited contribution to the special issue in the honor of Prof. T. H. Chan) K.L. Luska, A. Moores,* “Improved Stability and Catalytic Activity of Palladium Nanoparticle Catalysts Using Phosphine Functionalized Imidazolium Ionic Liquids”, Adv. Synth. Catal., 2011, 353 (17), 3167–3177. C. M. Cirtiu, T. Raychoudhury, S. Ghoshal,* A. Moores,* “Systematic Comparison of the Size, Surface Characteristics and Colloidal Stability of Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles Pre- and Post-Grafted with Common Polymers”, Colloids Surf. A, 2011, 390, 1-3, 95-104. T. Q. Zeng, L. Yang, R. Hudson, G. H. Song, A. Moores, C.-J. Li,* “Fe3O4 Nanoparticle-Supported Copper (I) Pybox Catalyst: Magnetically Recoverable Catalyst for Enantioselective Direct-Addition of Terminal Alkynes to Imines”, Org. Lett., 2011, 13, 442-445. C. M. Cirtiu, A. Dunlop-Brière, A. Moores,* “Cellulose nanocrystallites as an efficient support for nanoparticles of palladium: application for catalytic hydrogenation and Heck coupling under mild conditions”, Green Chem., 2011, 13, 288-291. T. Q. Zeng, G. H. Song, A. Moores, C.-J. Li,* “Magnetically Recoverable Iron Nanoparticle Catalyzed Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling (CDC) between Two Csp3-H Bonds Using Molecular Oxygen”, Synlett, 2010, 2002-2008 T. Q. Zeng, W.-W. Chen, C. M. Cirtiu, A. Moores, G. H. Song, C.-J. Li,* “Fe3O4 nanoparticles: a robust and magnetically recoverable catalyst for three-component coupling of aldehyde, alkyne and amine”, Green Chemistry, 2010, 12, 570-573.