D. Avnir

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Organically Doped Metals—A New Approach to Metal Catalysis: Enhanced Ag-Catalyzed Oxidation of Methanol
    Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 913–918, 2007
  2. Chirality Induction in Bulk Gold and Silver
    Advanced Materials, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 1207–1211, 2007
  3. Biochemically active sol-gel glasses: The trapping of enzymes?
    Materials Letters, vol. 61, no. 14-15, pp. 2843–2846, 2007
  4. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 129, no. 1, pp. 98–108, 2007
  5. SiliaCat TEMPO: An Effective and Useful Oxidizing Catalyst
    Organic Process Research & Development, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 766–768, 2007
  6. Induction and detection of chirality in doped sol?gel materials: NMR and circular dichroism studies
    Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 17, no. 6, p. 536, 2007
  7. Recent bio-applications of sol–gel materials
    Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 16, no. 11, p. 1013, 2006
  8. The temperature-dependent optical activity of quartz: from Le Châtelier to chirality measures
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, vol. 17, no. 19, pp. 2723–2725, 2006
  9. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 18, no. 25, pp. 5890–5896, 2006
  10. Continuous Symmetry Analysis of NMR Chemical Shielding Anisotropy
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 12, no. 33, pp. 8534–8538, 2006
  11. Chemical communication between solids placed at distance: Sol-gel entrapped acids and bases
    Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, vol. 40, no. 2-3, pp. 233–239, 2006
  12. Activation of Metal-Carbonyl Clusters by their Encapsulation Within Alumina Sol-Gel Matrices
    Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 159–167, 2005
  13. Three-Phase Microemulsion/Sol-Gel System for Aqueous Catalytic Hydroformylation of Hydrophobic Alkenes
    European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2005, no. 17, pp. 3640–3642, 2005
  14. Silver Doped with Acidic/Basic Polymers: Novel, Reactive Metallic Composites
    Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1141–1146, 2005
  15. Shape maps and polyhedral interconversion paths in transition metal chemistry
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 249, no. 17-18, pp. 1693–1708, 2005
  16. Continuous chirality measures in transition metal chemistry
    Chemical Society Reviews, vol. 34, no. 4, p. 313, 2005
  17. Langmuir, vol. 21, no. 17, pp. 7842–7847, 2005
  18. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 258–263, 2005
  19. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 17, no. 18, pp. 4711–4716, 2005
  20. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 8, pp. 2650–2655, 2005
  21. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 22, pp. 8077–8081, 2005
  22. Continuity in symmetry and in distinguishability of states: The symmetry numbers of nonrigid molecules
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 122, no. 7, p. 074110, 2005
  23. Pressure and temperature effects on the degree of symmetry and chirality of the molecular building blocks of low quartz
    Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 163–173, 2004
  24. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 6, pp. 1755–1763, 2004
  25. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 16, no. 16, pp. 3197–3202, 2004
  26. Organic Letters, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 925–927, 2004
  27. Tissue-derived cell growth on hybrid sol?gel films
    Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 14, no. 14, p. 2200, 2004
  28. Electrodeposition of Dye-Doped Titania Thin Films
    Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, vol. 31, no. 1-3, pp. 329–334, 2004
  29. Electrochemically Induced Sol–Gel Deposition of Zirconia Thin Films
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 1936–1943, 2004
  30. Three-Phase Microemulsion/Sol–Gel System for Aqueous Catalysis with Hydrophobic Chemicals
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 958–962, 2004
  31. Theoretical Evidence of Persistent Chirality in D3 Homoleptic Hexacoordinate Complexes with Monodentate Ligands
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 1952–1957, 2003
  32. Quantitative Chirality Analysis of Molecular Subunits of Bis(oxazoline)copper(II) Complexes in Relation to Their Enantioselective Catalytic Activity
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 9, no. 23, pp. 5832–5837, 2003
  33. Statistical analysis of the estimation of distance measures
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 786–796, 2003
  34. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 464–472, 2003
  35. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 1690–1694, 2003
  36. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 15, no. 19, pp. 3607–3613, 2003
  37. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 1/3, pp. 43–46, 2003
  38. Continuous chirality measures of tetracoordinate bis(chelate) metal complexes
    Dalton Transactions, no. 4, pp. 562–569, 2003
  39. Exhaustive hydrodechlorination of chlorinated aromatic environmental pollutants to alicyclic compounds
    Green Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 40–43, 2003
  40. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 14, pp. 4368–4375, 2003
  41. One-pot sequences of reactions with sol-gel entrapped opposing reagents. Oxidations and catalytic reductions
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 205–207, 2002
  42. Continuous symmetry maps and shape classification. The case of six-coordinated metal compoundsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: tables of CSD refcodes, structural parameters and symmetry measures for the studied compounds. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/nj/b2/b202096n/
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 996–1009, 2002
  43. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1736–1741, 2002
  44. Entrapment of metallic palladium and a rhodium(I) complex in a silica sol–gel matrix Formation of a highly active recyclable arene hydrogenation catalyst
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 185, no. 1-2, pp. 179–185, 2002
  45. Catalytic hydrogenolysis of aromatic ketones by a sol–gel entrapped combined Pd-[Rh(cod)Cl]2 catalyst
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 187, no. 2, pp. 277–281, 2002
  46. A Three-Phase Emulsion/Solid-Heterogenization Method for Transport and Catalysis
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 41, no. 21, pp. 4132–4134, 2002
  47. A Continuous Chirality Analysis of Homoleptic Hexacoordinated Complexes
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2001, no. 6, pp. 1499–1503, 2001
  48. Acids and Bases in One Pot while Avoiding Their Mutual Destruction We gratefully acknowledge support from the Israel Science Foundation (grant 96-98-2) and from the Infrastructure (Tashtiot) Project of the Israel Ministry for Science, Arts and Sports; and from the German–Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (Grant No. I-530.045.05/97).
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 40, no. 19, p. 3647, 2001
  49. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 811–816, 2001
  50. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 3631–3634, 2001
  51. Continuous chirality analysis of hexacoordinated tris-chelated metal complexes
    Crystal Engineering, vol. 4, no. 2-3, pp. 179–200, 2001
  52. Sol–gel entrapped Rh2Co2(CO)12: a catalyst precursor for efficient arene hydrogenation
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 171, no. 1-2, pp. 191–194, 2001
  53. Studies in copper(II) complexes: correlations between quantitative symmetry and physical properties
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 6, pp. 941–947, 2001
  54. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 109–120, 2001
  55. Langmuir, vol. 17, no. 19, pp. 5958–5963, 2001
  56. Getting a Library of Activities from a Single Compound: Tunability and Very Large Shifts in Acidity Constants Induced by Sol-Gel Entrapped Micelles
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 24, pp. 5730–5734, 2001
  57. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 318–323, 2001
  58. One-Pot Reactions with Opposing Reagents: Sol-Gel Entrapped Catalyst and Base
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 48, pp. 11999–12000, 2000
  59. Quantitative Symmetry in Structure-Activity Correlations: The Near C2 Symmetry of Inhibitor/HIV Protease Complexes
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 18, pp. 4378–4384, 2000
  60. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, vol. 19, no. 1/3, pp. 17–22, 2000
  61. Sol–gel entrapped TEMPO for the selective oxidation of methyl a-d-glucopyranoside
    Chemical Communications, no. 15, pp. 1441–1442, 2000
  62. Sol–gel entrapped heteronuclear transition metal catalysts
    Polyhedron, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 509–512, 2000
  63. Quantitative chirality of helicenes
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, vol. 11, no. 13, pp. 2695–2704, 2000
  64. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 3754–3759, 2000
  65. Entrapment of Lipases in Hydrophobic Sol-Gel-Materials: Efficient Heterogeneous Biocatalysts in Aqueous Medium
    Synthesis, vol. 2000, no. 06, pp. 781–783, 2000
  66. Sol–gel entrapped chiral rhodium and ruthenium complexes as recyclable catalysts for the hydrogenation of itaconic acid
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 146, no. 1-2, pp. 123–128, 1999
  67. Continuous symmetry measures: Finding the closest C2-symmetric object or closest reflection-symmetric object using unit quaternions
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 772–780, 1999
  68. Electrodeposition of Methylated Sol-Gel Films on Conducting Surfaces
    Advanced Materials, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 384–388, 1999
  69. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, vol. 25, no. 2/3, pp. 295–308, 1999
  70. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 233–247, 1999
  71. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, no. 37, pp. 8533–8543, 1999
  72. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, vol. 13, no. 1/3, pp. 17–25, 1998
  73. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 120, no. 24, pp. 6152–6159, 1998
  74. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, vol. 23, no. 1/2, pp. 13–29, 1998
  75. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 3318–3324, 1998
  76. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 102, no. 30, pp. 5776–5784, 1998
  77. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 37, no. 21, pp. 5575–5582, 1998
  78. Quantitative Analysis of the Symmetry of Artefacts: Lower Paleolithic Handaxes
    Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 817–825, 1998
  79. Quantitative evaluation of the near-C2 symmetry of the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 298, no. 1-3, pp. 43–50, 1998
  80. Synthesis, immobilization and catalytic activity of some silylated cyclopentadienyl rhodium(I) complexes
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 280, no. 1-2, pp. 21–25, 1998
  81. APPLIED MATHEMATICS:Is the Geometry of Nature Fractal?
    Science, vol. 279, no. 5347, pp. 39–40, 1998
  82. Limited range fractality of randomly adsorbed rods
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 106, no. 24, p. 10359, 1997
  83. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 2533–2540, 1997
  84. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 2258–2260, 1997
  85. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 2632–2639, 1997
  86. Chemistry of Materials, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 2255–2257, 1997
  87. The incorporation of titania into modified silicates for solar photodegradation of aqueous species
    Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, vol. 8, no. 1-3, pp. 619–623, 1997
  88. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 177–184, 1997
  89. Disproportionation of Dihydroarenes by Sol–Gel Entrapped RhCl3-Quaternary Ammonium Ion Pair Catalysts
    Journal of Catalysis, vol. 164, no. 2, pp. 363–368, 1996
  90. Comparison between homogeneous and sol-gel-encapsulated rhodium-quaternary ammonium ion pair catalysts
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 107, no. 1-3, pp. 217–223, 1996
  91. Sol-gel entrapped lipophilic and hydrophilic ruthenium-, rhodium-, and iridium-phosphine complexes as recyclable isomerization catalysts
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 108, no. 3, pp. 153–160, 1996
  92. Apparent fractality emerging from models of random distributions
    Physical Review E, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 3342–3358, 1996
  93. Continuous chirality analysis of interconversion pathways of the water-trimer enantiomers
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, vol. 92, no. 14, p. 2523, 1996
  94. Symmetry as a continuous feature
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 1154–1166, 1995
  95. Organic Chemistry within Ceramic Matrixes: Doped Sol-Gel Materials
    Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 328–334, 1995
  96. Apparent low surface areas in microporous SiO2-xerogels
    Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 65–70, 1995
  97. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 28, pp. 11061–11066, 1995
  98. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 40, pp. 14893–14902, 1995
  99. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 117, no. 1, pp. 462–473, 1995
  100. Determination of Activation Energy of Entrance into Micropores: Quenching of the Fluorescence of Pyrene-Doped SiO2 Sol-Gel Matrixes by Oxygen
    Chemistry of Materials, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 1457–1461, 1994
  101. Enzymes and Other Proteins Entrapped in Sol-Gel Materials
    Chemistry of Materials, vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 1605–1614, 1994
  102. Miniaturization of organically doped sol-gel materials: a microns-size fluorescent pH sensor
    Materials Letters, vol. 21, no. 5-6, pp. 431–434, 1994
  103. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 115, no. 18, pp. 8278–8289, 1993
  104. Langmuir, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 2523–2529, 1993
  105. Langmuir, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 3067–3076, 1993
  106. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 97, no. 40, pp. 10380–10384, 1993
  107. Immobilization of Quaternary Ammonium Anion Exchangers in Sol-Gel Glasses
    Separation Science and Technology, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 589–597, 1992
  108. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 96, no. 15, pp. 6398–6405, 1992
  109. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 114, no. 20, pp. 7843–7851, 1992
  110. Long-lived photoinduced charge separation in a redox system trapped in a sol–gel glass
    Nature, vol. 355, no. 6357, Article ID 355240a0, 2 pages, 1992
  111. Biocatalysis by sol-gel entrapped enzymes
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 147-148, pp. 739–743, 1992
  112. Spectrophotometric detection of heavy metals by doped sol-gel glass detectors
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 147-148, pp. 808–812, 1992
  113. A high-sensitivity photometric method based on doped Sol-Gel glass detectors: determination of sub-ppb divalent iron
    Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry, vol. 343, no. 4, pp. 370–372, 1992
  114. Use of fractal geometry to determine effects of surface morphology on drug dissolution
    Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 81, no. 1, pp. 54–57, 1992
  115. Surface Fractality of Dendrimers
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 1379–1380, 1991
  116. The relation between molecular shape and molecular rotations in chiral halogenated alkanes
    Structural Chemistry, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 475–478, 1991
  117. Steady-state diffusion and reactions in catalytic fractal porous media
    Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 46, no. 11, pp. 2787–2798, 1991
  118. Characterization of right-handed and left-handed shapes
    CVGIP: Image Understanding, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 297–302, 1991
  119. Fractal analysis of surface geometry effects on catalytic reactions
    Surface Science, vol. 248, no. 1-2, pp. 258–270, 1991
  120. Langmuir, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 610–610, 1991
  121. Diffusion-limited reactions at solid-liquid interfaces: effects of surface geometry
    Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 5, pp. 1890–1895, 1991
  122. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 113, no. 10, pp. 3984–3985, 1991
  123. Langmuir, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 559–564, 1990
  124. Langmuir, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 1691–1695, 1990
  125. Biochemically active sol-gel glasses: the trapping of enzymes
    Materials Letters, vol. 10, no. 1-2, pp. 1–5, 1990
  126. Doped sol-gel glasses as chemical sensors
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 122, no. 1, pp. 107–109, 1990
  127. Applications of the sol-gel process for the preparation of photochromic information-recording materials: synthesis, properties, mechanisms
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 113, no. 2-3, pp. 137–145, 1989
  128. The effects of the fractal geometry of surfaces on the adsorption conformation of polymers at monolayer coverage part I. The case of polystyrene
    Colloids and Surfaces, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 155–170, 1989
  129. Langmuir, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 48–54, 1989
  130. Langmuir, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 1431–1433, 1989
  131. Chemical formation of spatial patterns induced by nonlinearity in a concentration-dependent diffusion coefficient
    Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 93, no. 7, pp. 2728–2731, 1989
  132. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 93, no. 15, pp. 5851–5854, 1989
  133. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 93, no. 22, pp. 7544–7547, 1989
  134. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 111, no. 6, pp. 2001–2003, 1989
  135. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 110, no. 7, pp. 2039–2045, 1988
  136. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 92, no. 16, pp. 4734–4738, 1988
  137. Water consumption during the early stages of the sol-gel tetramethylorthosilicate polymerization as probed by excited state proton transfer
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 99, no. 2-3, pp. 379–386, 1988
  138. Sorption of rhodamine B by montmorillonite and laponite
    Colloids and Surfaces, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 41–65, 1987
  139. Alcohol is an unnecessary additive in the silicon alkoxide sol-gel process
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 180–182, 1987
  140. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 91, no. 22, pp. 5517–5521, 1987
  141. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 109, no. 10, pp. 2931–2938, 1987
  142. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 108, no. 25, pp. 7897–7905, 1986
  143. Langmuir, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 616–619, 1986
  144. Langmuir, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 717–722, 1986
  145. A photophysical study of the sol/gel transition in silica: Structural dynamics and oscillations, room-temperature phosphorescence and photochromic gel glasses
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 82, no. 1-3, pp. 103–109, 1986
  146. The effect of induced aromaticity on sorption of organic molecules by montmorillonite: Comparison of dibenzosuberone with dibenzotropone
    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 111, no. 1, pp. 261–268, 1986
  147. Organic fluorescent dyes trapped in silica and silica-titania thin films by the sol-gel method. Photophysical, film and cage properties,
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 74, no. 2-3, pp. 395–406, 1985
  148. Surface geometric irregularity of particulate materials: The fractal approach
    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 103, no. 1, pp. 112–123, 1985
  149. ERRATUM: Scaling behavior of surface irregularity in the molecular domain: From adsorption studies to fractal catalysts
    Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 39, no. 1-2, pp. 263–263, 1985
  150. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 107, no. 11, pp. 3368–3370, 1985
  151. Applications and limitations of boundary-line fractal analysis of irregular surfaces: proteins, aggregates, and porous materials
    Langmuir, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 399–407, 1985
  152. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 89, no. 16, pp. 3521–3526, 1985
  153. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 88, no. 24, pp. 5956–5959, 1984
  154. Scaling behavior of surface irregularity in the molecular domain: From adsorption studies to fractal catalysts
    Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 36, no. 5-6, pp. 699–716, 1984
  155. Spatial dissipative structures formed by spontaneous molecular aggregation at interfaces
    Origins of Life, vol. 14, no. 1-4, pp. 365–373, 1984
  156. FRACTAL DIMENSIONS OF SURFACES. THE USE OF ADSORPTION DATA FOR THE QUANTITATIVE EVALUATON OF GEOMETRIC IRREGULARITY
    Particulate Science and Technology, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 27–35, 1984
  157. Chemistry in noninteger dimensions between two and three. I. Fractal theory of heterogeneous surfaces
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 79, no. 7, p. 3558, 1983
  158. Chemistry in noninteger dimensions between two and three. II. Fractal surfaces of adsorbents
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 79, no. 7, p. 3566, 1983