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Office: NA3105DI
Workphone: 964387516
E-mail: borjam@uji.es
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Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM)
Universitat Jaume I
12006 Castelló
Spain
Bio and research interests
María Pilar Borja (M.Sc. degree in chemistry in 2010 and the Ph.D. degree in 2014, both from the University of Zaragoza, Spain) worked in the UZ (from 2009 to 2015) studying new luminescent C,N-cyclometalated Pt(II) complexes and their potential applications such as phosphorescent dopants in OLEDs, sensors of heavy metals and photochemistry. In April 2016 she moved to Toulouse (France) as a postdoctoral researcher in the team Systèmes de Hautes Energies (SHEN group) lead by Dr, Nicolas Mézailles in the Laboratoire Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée (LHFA, UMR 5069 CNRS) where she stayed for 11months. During this time she worked in C-H bond activation and Ar-RF (RF = CF3, F) bond formation involving the participation of high-valent Ni-species. Since March 2017 she is working as a Research Scientist at the University Jaume I in the Instituted of Advanced Materials (INAM). Her research interests focus on the development of new catalytic processes for energy applications using multifunctional advanced materials based on graphene and organometallic complexes bearing NHCs.

Publications

2021

  1. Journal of Chemical Education, 2021, 98, 2638.

    Mollar-Cuni, A.; Mejuto, C.; Ventura-Espinosa, D.; Borja, P.; Mata, J.A.

    Introducing Catalysis to Undergraduate Chemistry Students: TestingaRu−NHC Complex in the Selective Dehydrogenative Coupling ofHydrosilanes and Alcohols.

    Article page: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00032?ref=PDF

2020

  1. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2020, 45, 4254 – 4262 .

    Mollar-Cuni, A.; Borja, P.; Martín, S.; Guisado-Barrios, G.; Mata, J.A.

    A Platinum molecular complex immobilised on the surface of graphene as active catalyst in alkyne hydrosilylation.

    Article page: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202000356

  2. ChemCatChem, 2020, 12, 3746 – 3752.

    Mollar-Cuni, A.; Byrne, J.P.; Borja, P.; Vicent, C.; Albrecht, M.; Mata, J.A.

    Selective conversion of various monosaccharaides into sugar acids by additive-free dehydrogenation in water..

    Article page: https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202000544

2018

  1. ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 11, 15217–15228.

    Mollar-Cuni, A.; Ventura-Espinosa, D.; Martín, S.; Mayoral, A.; Borja, P.; Mata, J.A.

    Stabilization of nanoparticles produced by hydrogenation of Palladium-NHC complexes on the surface of graphene and implications in catalysis.

    Article page: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.8b02193

  2. Green Chemistry, 2018, 20, 4094 – 4101.

    Borja, P.; Vicent, C.; Baya, M.; Garcia, H.; Mata, J.A.

    Iridium complexes catalysed selective dehydrogenation of glucose to gluconic acid in water.

    Article page: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/gc/c8gc01933a#!divAbstract