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Zhou W, Brack E, Ehinger C, Paterson J, Southouse J, Copéret C. Reactivity Switch of Platinum with Gallium: From Reverse Water Gas Shift to Methanol Synthesis. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:10806-10811. [PMID: 38572914 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c01144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
Abstract
The development of efficient catalysts for the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol using "green" H2 is foreseen to be a key step to close the carbon cycle. In this study, we show that small and narrowly distributed alloyed PtGa nanoparticles supported on silica, prepared via a surface organometallic chemistry (SOMC) approach, display notable activity for the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol, reaching a 7.2 molCH3OH h-1 molPt-1 methanol formation rate with a 54% intrinsic CH3OH selectivity. This reactivity sharply contrasts with what is expected for Pt, which favors the reverse water gas shift reaction, albeit with poor activity (2.6 molCO2 h-1 molPt-1). In situ XAS studies indicate that ca. 50% of Ga is reduced to Ga0 yielding alloyed PtGa nanoparticles, while the remaining 50% persist as isolated GaIII sites. The PtGa catalyst slightly dealloys under CO2 hydrogenation conditions and displays redox dynamics with PtGa-GaOx interfaces responsible for promoting both the CO2 hydrogenation activity and methanol selectivity. Further tailoring the catalyst interface by using a carbon support in place of silica enables to improve the methanol formation rate by a factor of ∼5.
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- Wei Zhou
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- bp Innovation & Engineering, Applied Sciences bp plc Saltend, Hull HU12 8DS, United Kingdom
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- bp Innovation & Engineering, Applied Sciences bp plc Saltend, Hull HU12 8DS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Ehinger C, Zhou X, Candrian M, Docherty SR, Pollitt S, Copéret C. Group 10 Metal Allyl Amidinates: A Family of Readily Accessible and Stable Molecular Precursors to Generate Supported Nanoparticles. JACS Au 2023; 3:2314-2322. [PMID: 37654588 PMCID: PMC10466329 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 07/15/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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The synthesis of well-defined materials as model systems for catalysis and related fields is an important pillar in the understanding of catalytic processes at a molecular level. Various approaches employing organometallic precursors have been developed and established to make monodispersed supported nanoparticles, nanocrystals, and films. Using rational design principles, a new family of precursors based on group 10 metals suitable for the generation of small and monodispersed nanoparticles on metal oxides has been developed. Particle formation on SiO2 and Al2O3 supports is demonstrated, as well as the potential in the synthesis of bimetallic catalyst materials, exemplified by a PdGa/SiO2 system capable of hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol. In addition to surface organometallic chemistry (SOMC), it is envisioned that these precursors could also be employed in related applications, such as atomic layer deposition, due to their inherent volatility and relative thermal stability.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christian Ehinger
- D-CHAB, ETH Zürich, Vladimir−Prelog-Weg 1−5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- D-CHAB, ETH Zürich, Vladimir−Prelog-Weg 1−5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- D-CHAB, ETH Zürich, Vladimir−Prelog-Weg 1−5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- D-CHAB, ETH Zürich, Vladimir−Prelog-Weg 1−5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- D-CHAB, ETH Zürich, Vladimir−Prelog-Weg 1−5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- PSI, Forschungsstrasse 111, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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Berkson ZJ, Zhu R, Ehinger C, Lätsch L, Schmid SP, Nater D, Pollitt S, Safonova OV, Björgvinsdóttir S, Barnes AB, Román-Leshkov Y, Price GA, Sunley GJ, Copéret C. Active Site Descriptors from 95Mo NMR Signatures of Silica-Supported Mo-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalysts. J Am Chem Soc 2023. [PMID: 37256723 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c02201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The olefin metathesis activity of silica-supported molybdenum oxides depends strongly on metal loading and preparation conditions, indicating that the nature and/or amounts of the active sites vary across compositionally similar catalysts. This is illustrated by comparing Mo-based (pre)catalysts prepared by impregnation (2.5-15.6 wt % Mo) and a model material (2.3 wt % Mo) synthesized via surface organometallic chemistry (SOMC). Analyses of FTIR, UV-vis, and Mo K-edge X-ray absorption spectra show that these (pre)catalysts are composed predominantly of similar isolated Mo dioxo sites. However, they exhibit different reaction properties in both liquid and gas-phase olefin metathesis with the SOMC-derived catalyst outperforming a classical catalyst of a similar Mo loading by ×1.5-2.0. Notably, solid-state 95Mo NMR analyses leveraging state-of-the-art high-field (28.2 T) measurement conditions resolve four distinct surface Mo dioxo sites with distributions that depend on the (pre)catalyst preparation methods. The intensity of a specific deshielded 95Mo NMR signal, which is most prominent in the SOMC-derived catalyst, is linked to reducibility and catalytic activity. First-principles calculations show that 95Mo NMR parameters directly manifest the local strain and coordination environment: acute (SiO-Mo(O)2-OSi) angles and low coordination numbers at Mo lead to highly deshielded 95Mo chemical shifts and small quadrupolar coupling constants, respectively. Natural chemical shift analyses relate the 95Mo NMR signature of strained species to low LUMO energies, which is consistent with their high reducibility and corresponding reactivity. The 95Mo chemical shifts of supported Mo dioxo sites are thus linked to their specific electronic structures, providing a powerful descriptor for their propensity toward reduction and formation of active sites.
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- Zachariah J Berkson
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- PSI, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Applied Sciences, bp Innovation & Engineering, BP plc, Saltend, Hull HU12 8DS, U.K
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- Applied Sciences, bp Innovation & Engineering, BP plc, Saltend, Hull HU12 8DS, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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Zhou W, Docherty SR, Ehinger C, Zhou X, Copéret C. The promotional role of Mn in CO 2 hydrogenation over Rh-based catalysts from a surface organometallic chemistry approach. Chem Sci 2023; 14:5379-5385. [PMID: 37234901 PMCID: PMC10207883 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc01163a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Rh-based catalysts modified by transition metals have been intensively studied for CO2 hydrogenation due to their high activity. However, understanding the role of promoters at the molecular level remains challenging due to the ill-defined structure of heterogeneous catalysts. Here, we constructed well-defined RhMn@SiO2 and Rh@SiO2 model catalysts via surface organometallic chemistry combined with thermolytic molecular precursor (SOMC/TMP) approach to rationalize the promotional effect of Mn in CO2 hydrogenation. We show that the addition of Mn shifts the products from almost pure CH4 to a mixture of methane and oxygenates (CO, CH3OH, and CH3CH2OH) upon going from Rh@SiO2 to RhMn@SiO2. In situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) confirms that the MnII is atomically dispersed in the vicinity of metallic Rh nanoparticles and enables to induce the oxidation of Rh to form the Mn-O-Rh interface under reaction conditions. The formed interface is proposed to be key to maintaining Rh+ sites, which is related to suppressing the methanation reaction and stabilizing the formate species as evidenced by in situ DRIFTS to promote the formation of CO and alcohols.
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- Wei Zhou
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich Vladimir Prelog Weg2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich Vladimir Prelog Weg2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich Vladimir Prelog Weg2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich Vladimir Prelog Weg2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich Vladimir Prelog Weg2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
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Oeschger R, Su B, Yu I, Ehinger C, Romero E, He S, Hartwig J. Diverse functionalization of strong alkyl C-H bonds by undirected borylation. Science 2020; 368:736-741. [PMID: 32409470 DOI: 10.1126/science.aba6146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
The selective functionalization of strong, typically inert carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds in organic molecules is changing synthetic chemistry. However, the undirected functionalization of primary C-H bonds without competing functionalization of secondary C-H bonds is rare. The borylation of alkyl C-H bonds has occurred previously with this selectivity, but slow rates required the substrate to be the solvent or in large excess. We report an iridium catalyst ligated by 2-methylphenanthroline with activity that enables, with the substrate as limiting reagent, undirected borylation of primary C-H bonds and, when primary C-H bonds are absent or blocked, borylation of strong secondary C-H bonds. Reactions at the resulting carbon-boron bond show how these borylations can lead to the installation of a wide range of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds at previously inaccessible positions of organic molecules.
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- Raphael Oeschger
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Bhawal BN, Reisenbauer JC, Ehinger C, Morandi B. Overcoming Selectivity Issues in Reversible Catalysis: A Transfer Hydrocyanation Exhibiting High Kinetic Control. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:10914-10920. [PMID: 32478515 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Reversible catalytic reactions operate under thermodynamic control, and thus, establishing a selective catalytic system poses a considerable challenge. Herein, we report a reversible transfer hydrocyanation protocol that exhibits high selectivity for the thermodynamically less favorable branched isomer. Selectivity is achieved by exploiting the lower barrier for C-CN oxidative addition and reductive elimination at benzylic positions in the absence of a cocatalytic Lewis acid. Through the design of a novel type of HCN donor, a practical, branched-selective, HCN-free transfer hydrocyanation was realized. The synthetically useful resolution of a mixture of branched and linear nitrile isomers was also demonstrated to underline the value of reversible and selective transfer reactions. In a broader context, this work demonstrates that high kinetic selectivity can be achieved in reversible transfer reactions, thus opening new horizons for their synthetic applications.
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- Benjamin N Bhawal
- ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, HCI, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.,Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, HCI, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.,Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, HCI, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.,Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Ehinger C, Gordon CP, Copéret C. Oxygen transfer in electrophilic epoxidation probed by 17O NMR: differentiating between oxidants and role of spectator metal oxo. Chem Sci 2018; 10:1786-1795. [PMID: 30842846 PMCID: PMC6369410 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc04868a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Peroxide compounds are used both in laboratory and industrial processes for the electrophilic epoxidation of olefins. Using NMR-spectroscopy, we investigate why certain peroxides engage in this type of reaction while others require activation by metal catalysts, e.g. methyltrioxorhenium (MTO). More precisely, an analysis of 17O NMR chemical shift and quadrupolar coupling parameters provides insights into the relative energy of specific frontier molecular orbitals relevant for reactivity. For organic peroxides or H2O2 a large deshielding is indicative of an energetically high-lying lone-pair on oxygen in combination with a low-lying σ*(O-O) orbital. This feature is particularly pronounced in species that engage in electrophilic epoxidation, such as peracids or dimethyldioxirane (DMDO), and much less pronounced in unreactive peroxides such as H2O2 and ROOH, which can however be activated by transition-metal catalysts. In fact, for the proposed active peroxo species in MTO-catalyzed electrophilic epoxidation with H2O2 an analysis of the 17O NMR chemical shift highlights specific π- and δ-type orbital interactions between the so-called metal spectator oxo and the peroxo moieties that raise the energy of the high-lying lone-pair on oxygen, thus increasing the reactivity of the peroxo species.
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- Christian Ehinger
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1-5 , 8093 , Zürich , Switzerland .
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1-5 , 8093 , Zürich , Switzerland .
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1-5 , 8093 , Zürich , Switzerland .
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Ehinger C. [Diagnostic aids in gynecologic infections]. Nord Med 1979; 94:93. [PMID: 424274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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