Single-site catalyst promoters accelerate metal-catalyzed nitroarene hydrogenation

Wang, Liang; Guan, Erjia; Zhang, Jian; Yang, Junhao; Zhu, Yihan; Han, Yu; Yang, Ming; Cen, Cheng; Fu, Gang; Gates, Bruce C.; Xiao, Feng-Shou

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03810-y

Single-site catalyst promoters accelerate metal-catalyzed nitroarene hydrogenation

Journal Article · Tue Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03810-y· OSTI ID:1511705

Wang, Liang ^[1]; Guan, Erjia ^[2]; Zhang, Jian ^[3]; Yang, Junhao ^[4]; Zhu, Yihan ^[5]; ^[5]; Yang, Ming ^[6]; Cen, Cheng ^[6]; Fu, Gang ^[7]; Gates, Bruce C. ^[2]; Xiao, Feng-Shou ^[3]

Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China); None
Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dalian (China)
King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Tech., Thuwal (Saudi Arabia)
West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States)
Xiamen Univ., Xiamen (China)

Atomically dispersed supported metal catalysts are drawing wide attention because of the opportunities they offer for new catalytic properties combined with efficient use of the metals. We extend this class of materials to catalysts that incorporate atomically dispersed metal atoms as promoters. The catalysts are used for the challenging nitroarene hydrogenation and found to have both high activity and selectivity. The promoters are single-site Sn on TiO₂ supports that incorporate metal nanoparticle catalysts. Represented as M/Sn-TiO₂ (M = Au, Ru, Pt, Ni), these catalysts decidedly outperform the unpromoted supported metals, even for hydrogenation of nitroarenes substituted with various reducible groups. The high activity and selectivity of these catalysts result from the creation of oxygen vacancies on the TiO₂ surface by single-site Sn, which leads to efficient, selective activation of the nitro group coupled with a reaction involving hydrogen atoms activated on metal nanoparticles.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-04ER15513

OSTI ID:: 1511705

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 9; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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