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George A. Olah
Researcher at University of Southern California
Publications - 233
Citations - 5792
George A. Olah is an academic researcher from University of Southern California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Catalysis & Reagent. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 233 publications receiving 5273 citations. Previous affiliations of George A. Olah include University of Colorado Colorado Springs & California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
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Air as the renewable carbon source of the future: an overview of CO2 capture from the atmosphere
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of methods developed for the capture of CO2 directly from the air as well as their advantages and drawbacks, including strong bases such as sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxides and their regeneration is energy intensive, requiring high temperatures.
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Electrochemical CO2 Reduction: Recent Advances and Current Trends
TL;DR: The field of electrochemical CO2 reduction is reviewed in this article, with sections on mechanism, formate (formic acid) production, carbon monoxide production, reduction to higher products (methanol, methane, etc.), use of flow cells, high pressure approaches, molecular catalysts, non-aqueous electrolytes, and solid oxide electrolysis cells.
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N-Halosuccinimide/BF3−H2O, Efficient Electrophilic Halogenating Systems for Aromatics
G. K. Surya Prakash,Thomas Mathew,Dushyanthi Hoole,Pierre M. Esteves,Qi Wang,Golam Rasul,George A. Olah +6 more
TL;DR: DFT calculations suggest that protonated N-halosuccinimides undergo further protosolvation at higher acidities to reactive superelectrophilic species capable of forming a highly reactive and solvated X(+) which would readily react with the aromatic substrates.
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Copper-mediated difluoromethylation of (hetero)aryl iodides and β-styryl halides with tributyl(difluoromethyl)stannane.
G. K. Surya Prakash,Somesh K. Ganesh,John-Paul Jones,Aditya Kulkarni,Kamil Masood,Joseph K. Swabeck,George A. Olah +6 more
TL;DR: The synthesis of tributyl(difloromethyl)stannane and its application in the copper-mediated difluorometHylation of iodoarenes and b-styryl halides is reported and requires a significant excess of TMSCF2H.
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Synthesis of gem-Difluorinated Cyclopropanes and Cyclopropenes: Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane as a Difluorocarbene Source
Fei Wang,Tao Luo,Jinbo Hu,Ying Wang,Hema S. Krishnan,Parag V. Jog,Somesh K. Ganesh,G. K. Surya Prakash,George A. Olah +8 more
TL;DR: Owing to the interaction of the lone pairs of electrons on the fluorine substituents with the carbene center, difluorocarbene is a relatively stabilized carbene species (with a singlet ground state) and is therefore less reactive than other dihalocarbenes.