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  1. Investigation of toluene alkylation with hept-1-ene over fresh and modified h-beta catalysts according to apparent activation energy values

    Article • South African Journal of Chemical Engineering, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  2. Effect of the acetylation on the water resistance of biopolymer stabilised soil

    Article • September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr James McGregor

  3. Catalytic Hydrothermal Conversion of Polypropylene

    Article • Catalysis Today, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  4. Reduction of CO2 captured in basic solutions with biomass as reducing agent and metallic catalysts

    Article • RSC Sustainability, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr James McGregor

  5. Experimental and kinetic studies of the advantages of coke accumulation over Beta and Mordenite catalysts according to the pore mouth catalysis hypothesis

    Article • Catalysis Communications, August 2023, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor, Prof. Dr. Adnan A. AbdulRazak , Prof. Dr. Bashir Yousif Al-Zaidi

  6. Hydroisomerisation and Hydrocracking of n-Heptane: Modelling and Optimisation Using a Hybrid Artificial Neural Network–Genetic Algorithm (ANN–GA)

    Article • Catalysts, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr James McGregor, Prof. Dr. Adnan A. AbdulRazak , Prof. Dr. Bashir Yousif Al-Zaidi

  7. Unexpected Negative Performance of PdRhNi Electrocatalysts toward Ethanol Oxidation Reaction

    Article • Micromachines, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr James McGregor

  8. Enhancing the Water and Biodegradation Resistance of Biopolymer Stabilised Soils – Design Concepts

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James McGregor

  9. Synergistic Hydrothermal Conversion of Aqueous Solutions of CO2 and Biomass Waste Liquefaction into Formate

    Article • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, December 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr James McGregor

  10. In-situ FTIR spectroscopy investigation of carbon-supported PdAuNi electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation

    Article • Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  11. “Reverse combustion” of carbon dioxide in water: The influence of reaction conditions

    Article • Frontiers in Energy Research, August 2022, Frontiers

    Dr James McGregor

  12. The dehydrogenation of butane on metal-free graphene

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  13. Reaction Kinetics of Cinnamaldehyde Hydrogenation over Pt/SiO2: Comparison between Bulk and Intraparticle Diffusion Models

    Article • International Journal of Chemical Engineering, July 2022, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr James McGregor, Prof. Dr. Bashir Yousif Al-Zaidi, Prof. Dr. Adnan A. AbdulRazak

  14. Hydrothermal Synthesis of Biomass-Derived Magnetic Carbon Composites for Adsorption and Catalysis

    Article • ACS Omega, November 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr James McGregor

  15. Synthesis of Carbon-Supported PdIrNi Catalysts and Their Performance towards Ethanol Electrooxidation

    Article • Micromachines, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr James McGregor

  16. Catalytic Reduction of Nitric Oxide with Hydrogen Using Carbon-Supported d-Metal Catalysts

    Article • Waste and Biomass Valorization, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James McGregor

  17. Operando Studies of Aerosol-Assisted Sol–Gel Catalyst Synthesis via Combined Optical Trapping and Raman Spectroscopy

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, October 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr James McGregor

  18. Synthesis and Characterization of PdAgNi/C Trimetallic Nanoparticles for Ethanol Electrooxidation

    Article • Nanomaterials, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr James McGregor

  19. Carbon-Supported Trimetallic Catalysts (PdAuNi/C) for Borohydride Oxidation Reaction

    Article • Nanomaterials, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr James McGregor, Dr Diogo M.F. Santos

  20. Assessment of copper-iron catalyst supported on activated carbon for low-temperature nitric oxide reduction by hydrogen

    Article • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, May 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr James McGregor

  21. Improving Product Yield in the Direct Carboxylation of Glycerol with CO2 through the Tailored Selection of Dehydrating Agents

    Article • Catalysts, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr James McGregor

  22. Catalytic carbon materials from biomass

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  23. The role of Zn in the sustainable one-pot synthesis of dimethyl carbonate from carbon dioxide, methanol and propylene oxide

    Article • Chemical Engineering Science, November 2020, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  24. Influence of Biochar Composition and Source Material on Catalytic Performance: The Carboxylation of Glycerol with CO2 as a Case Study

    Article • Catalysts, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr James McGregor

  25. Tailoring product characteristics in the carbonisation of brewers’ spent grain through solvent selection

    Article • Food and Bioproducts Processing, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  26. H 2 ‐free Synthesis of Aromatic, Cyclic and Linear Oxygenates from CO 2

    Article • ChemSusChem, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr James McGregor

  27. 21. Fischer–Tropsch synthesis using CO2

    Article • December 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr James McGregor

  28. Blue Urea: Fertilizer With Reduced Environmental Impact

    Article • Frontiers in Energy Research, August 2019, Frontiers

    Dr James McGregor

  29. Trimetallic Carbon-Supported Catalysts for Borohydride Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction in Alkaline Solutions

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, June 2019, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr James McGregor, Dr Diogo M.F. Santos

  30. The role of impurities in the La2O3 catalysed carboxylation of crude glycerol

    Article • Catalysis Letters, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James McGregor

  31. Investigation of ZSM-5 Catalysts for Dimethylether Conversion Using Inelastic Neutron Scattering

    Article • Applied Catalysis A General, October 2018, Elsevier

    Stewart Parker, Dr James McGregor

  32. Influence of physicochemical characteristics of carbon supports on Pd ethanol oxidation catalysts

    Article • Energy Procedia, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  33. Industrial Catalysis: A Practical Approach, Jens Hagen 3rd Edition Wiley-VCH, 2015; Hardcover £120, €144. 544 pages. ISBN: 978-3-527-33165-9

    Article • Applied Organometallic Chemistry, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr James McGregor

  34. An assessment of hydrocarbon species in the methanol-to-hydrocarbon reaction over a ZSM-5 catalyst

    Article • Faraday Discussions, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Stewart Parker, Dr James McGregor

  35. Analysis of Mesoscopic Structured 2-Propanol/Water Mixtures Using Pressure Perturbation Calorimetry and Molecular Dynamic Simulation

    Article • Journal of Solution Chemistry, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James McGregor

  36. Heterogeneous reaction of ClONO2 with TiO2 and SiO2 aerosol particles: implications for stratospheric particle injection for climate engineering

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", December 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr James McGregor

  37. Structural changes in FeOx/γ-Al2O3 catalysts during ethylbenzene dehydrogenation

    Article • Catalysis Structure & Reactivity, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr James McGregor

  38. The role of the Boudouard and water–gas shift reactions in the methanation of CO or CO2 over Ni/γ-Al2O3 catalyst

    Article • Chemical Engineering Science, October 2016, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  39. Kinetic studies of the methanation of CO over a Ni/γ-Al2O3 catalyst using a batch reactor

    Article • Chemical Engineering Science, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  40. Application of Inelastic Neutron Scattering to the Methanol-to-Gasoline Reaction Over a ZSM-5 Catalyst

    Article • Catalysis Letters, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James McGregor

  41. Kinetic studies of CO2 methanation over a Ni/γ-Al2O3 catalyst using a batch reactor

    Article • Chemical Engineering Science, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  42. The enhancement of the catalytic performance of CrOx/Al2O3 catalysts for ethylbenzene dehydrogenation through tailored coke deposition

    Article • Catalysis Science & Technology, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr James McGregor

  43. Things go better with coke: the beneficial role of carbonaceous deposits in heterogeneous catalysis

    Article • Catalysis Science & Technology, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr James McGregor

  44. A kinetic analysis methodology to elucidate the roles of metal, support and solvent for the hydrogenation of 4-phenyl-2-butanone over Pt/TiO 2

    Article • Journal of Catalysis, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  45. Effect of solvent on the hydrogenation of 4-phenyl-2-butanone over Pt based catalysts

    Article • Journal of Catalysis, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  46. A new perspective on catalytic dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene: the influence of side-reactions on catalytic performance

    Article • Catalysis Science & Technology, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr James McGregor, Dr Axel Zeitler

  47. Determining adsorbate configuration on alumina surfaces with 13C nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation time analysis

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr James McGregor

  48. Structure and dynamics of aqueous 2-propanol: a THz-TDS, NMR and neutron diffraction study

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr James McGregor

  49. Heterogeneous Interaction of SiO2 with N2O5: Aerosol Flow Tube and Single Particle Optical Levitation–Raman Spectroscopy Studies

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, September 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Francis Pope, Dr James McGregor

  50. Mesoscopic Structuring and Dynamics of Alcohol/Water Solutions Probed by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy and Pulsed Field Gradient Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, August 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Carmine D'Agostino, Dr James McGregor, Dr Axel Zeitler

  51. Corrigendum to "Heterogeneous reaction of N2O5 with airborne TiO2 particles and its implication for stratospheric particle injection" published in Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 6035–6048, 2014

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", August 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr James McGregor

  52. General discussion

    Article • Faraday Discussions, July 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr James McGregor

  53. General discussion

    Article • Faraday Discussions, July 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr James McGregor

  54. Heterogeneous reaction of N2O5 with airborne TiO2 particles and its implication for stratospheric particle injection

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", June 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Francis Pope, Dr James McGregor

  55. A new combined nuclear magnetic resonance and Raman spectroscopic probe applied toin situinvestigations of catalysts and catalytic processes

    Article • Review of Scientific Instruments, June 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Dr James McGregor

  56. Heterogeneous reaction of N2O5 with airborne TiO2 particles and its implication for stratospheric particle injection

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, February 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Francis Pope, Dr James McGregor

  57. Optical trapping and Raman spectroscopy of solid particles

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Francis Pope, Dr James McGregor

  58. Towards Tailored Porous Polymers Using Solvent Effects in Catalytic Degradation

    Article • Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, June 2013, Wiley

    Dr James McGregor

  59. Operando magnetic resonance: monitoring the evolution of conversion and product distribution during the heterogeneous catalytic ethene oligomerisation reaction

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr James McGregor

  60. ChemInform Abstract: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

    Article • ChemInform, November 2012, Wiley

    Dr James McGregor

  61. Solvent effects in the hydrogenation of 2-butanone

    Article • Journal of Catalysis, May 2012, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  62. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

    Article • April 2012, Wiley

    Dr James McGregor

  63. Characterization of carbon deposits during heterogeneous catalysis using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr James McGregor

  64. Hydrogen bonding networks in solvent mixture and their impact on the mobility of molecules as probed by THz-TDS and NMR spectroscopy

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr James McGregor

  65. The influence of carbon laydown on selectivity in the hydrogenation of pentenenitriles over supported-nickel catalysts

    Article • Applied Catalysis A General, August 2010, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  66. Tuning the Acid/Base Properties of Nanocarbons by Functionalization via Amination

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr James McGregor, Dr Axel Zeitler

  67. Structure and Dynamics of 1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium Acetate via Molecular Dynamics and Neutron Diffraction

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, May 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    John Holbrey, Dr James McGregor

  68. ChemInform Abstract: Solid-State NMR of Oxidation Catalysts

    Article • ChemInform, March 2010, Wiley

    Dr James McGregor

  69. Active coke: Carbonaceous materials as catalysts for alkane dehydrogenation

    Article • Journal of Catalysis, February 2010, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor, Dr Axel Zeitler

  70. The Use of Terahertz Spectroscopy as a Sensitive Probe in Discriminating the Electronic Properties of Structurally Similar Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Article • Advanced Materials, October 2009, Wiley

    Dr James McGregor, Dr Axel Zeitler

  71. Untangling the electronic properties in highly similar multi-walled carbon nanotubes by terahertz spectroscopy

    Article • September 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Axel Zeitler , Dr James McGregor

  72. Understanding the Dielectric Properties of Heat-Treated Carbon Nanofibers at Terahertz Frequencies: a New Perspective on the Catalytic Activity of Structured Carbonaceous Materials

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, June 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr James McGregor, Dr Axel Zeitler

  73. Comparing Strengths of Surface Interactions for Reactants and Solvents in Porous Catalysts Using Two-Dimensional NMR Relaxation Correlations

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, April 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr James McGregor

  74. The role of surface vanadia species in butane dehydrogenation over VOx/Al2O3

    Article • Catalysis Today, April 2009, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  75. Understanding the catalytic activity of heat treated carbon nanofibres: Investigation of their dielectric properties at THz frequencies

    Article • September 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Axel Zeitler , Professor Swee Ching Tan, Dr James McGregor

  76. The role of carbon deposits in the hydrogenation of C5 hydrocarbons

    Article • Applied Catalysis A General, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  77. NMR Studies of coke laydown on supported V/Al2O3 catalysts

    Article • Magnetic Resonance Imaging, May 2007, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  78. FTIR analysis of gaseous compounds in the mainstream smoke of regular and light cigarettes

    Article • Food and Chemical Toxicology, February 2007, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  79. Alkyne hydrogenation over Pd catalysts: A new paradigm

    Article • Journal of Catalysis, August 2006, Elsevier

    Dr James McGregor

  80. Alkane Dehydrogenation over Vanadium and Chromium Oxides

    Article • Wiley

    Dr James McGregor

  81. Solid-State NMR of Oxidation Catalysts

    Article • Wiley

    Dr James McGregor