Well-Defined Rhodium–Gallium Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes [Well-Defined Rh–Ga Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes]
Abstract
Promoters are ubiquitous in industrial heterogeneous catalysts. The wider roles of promoters in accelerating catalysis and/or controlling selectivity are, however, not well understood. A model system has been developed where a heterobimetallic active site comprising an active metal (Rh) and a promoter metal (Ga) are preassembled and delivered into a metal-organic framework (MOF) support. The Rh-Ga sites in the MOF selectively catalyze the hydrogenation of acyclic alkynes to E-alkenes, which is complementary to Lindlar’s catalyst, which generates only Z-alkenes. The role of the Ga in promoting this unusual selectivity is underscored by the lack of semi-hydrogenation selectivity when Ga is absent and only Rh is present in the active site. We acknowledge Dr. Camille Malonzo May (UMN), Dr. David Kaphan (Argonne), Dr. Tata Gopinath (UMN), and Dr. Zhanyong Li (NW) for experimental assistance, and Dr. Dale Pahls for preliminary theoretical calculations. This work was supported as part of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-SC0012702. This research used resources of: (1) the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility; and, (2)more »
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Energy Frontier Research Center for Inorganometallic Catalyst Design (ICDC); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1484223
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1507435
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-137231
Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7863; 148161
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 140; Journal Issue: 45; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7863
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Citation Formats
Desai, Sai Puneet, Ye, Jingyun, Zheng, Jian, Ferrandon, Magali S., Webber, Thomas E., Platero-Prats, Ana E., Duan, Jiaxin, Garcia-Holley, Paula, Camaioni, Donald M., Chapman, Karena W., Delferro, Massimiliano, Farha, Omar K., Fulton, John L., Gagliardi, Laura, Lercher, Johannes A., Penn, R. Lee, Stein, Andreas, and Lu, Connie C. Well-Defined Rhodium–Gallium Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes [Well-Defined Rh–Ga Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes]. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b08550.
Desai, Sai Puneet, Ye, Jingyun, Zheng, Jian, Ferrandon, Magali S., Webber, Thomas E., Platero-Prats, Ana E., Duan, Jiaxin, Garcia-Holley, Paula, Camaioni, Donald M., Chapman, Karena W., Delferro, Massimiliano, Farha, Omar K., Fulton, John L., Gagliardi, Laura, Lercher, Johannes A., Penn, R. Lee, Stein, Andreas, & Lu, Connie C. Well-Defined Rhodium–Gallium Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes [Well-Defined Rh–Ga Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes]. United States. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b08550.
Desai, Sai Puneet, Ye, Jingyun, Zheng, Jian, Ferrandon, Magali S., Webber, Thomas E., Platero-Prats, Ana E., Duan, Jiaxin, Garcia-Holley, Paula, Camaioni, Donald M., Chapman, Karena W., Delferro, Massimiliano, Farha, Omar K., Fulton, John L., Gagliardi, Laura, Lercher, Johannes A., Penn, R. Lee, Stein, Andreas, and Lu, Connie C. Tue .
"Well-Defined Rhodium–Gallium Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes [Well-Defined Rh–Ga Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes]". United States. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b08550. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1484223.
@article{osti_1484223,
title = {Well-Defined Rhodium–Gallium Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes [Well-Defined Rh–Ga Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes]},
author = {Desai, Sai Puneet and Ye, Jingyun and Zheng, Jian and Ferrandon, Magali S. and Webber, Thomas E. and Platero-Prats, Ana E. and Duan, Jiaxin and Garcia-Holley, Paula and Camaioni, Donald M. and Chapman, Karena W. and Delferro, Massimiliano and Farha, Omar K. and Fulton, John L. and Gagliardi, Laura and Lercher, Johannes A. and Penn, R. Lee and Stein, Andreas and Lu, Connie C.},
abstractNote = {Promoters are ubiquitous in industrial heterogeneous catalysts. The wider roles of promoters in accelerating catalysis and/or controlling selectivity are, however, not well understood. A model system has been developed where a heterobimetallic active site comprising an active metal (Rh) and a promoter metal (Ga) are preassembled and delivered into a metal-organic framework (MOF) support. The Rh-Ga sites in the MOF selectively catalyze the hydrogenation of acyclic alkynes to E-alkenes, which is complementary to Lindlar’s catalyst, which generates only Z-alkenes. The role of the Ga in promoting this unusual selectivity is underscored by the lack of semi-hydrogenation selectivity when Ga is absent and only Rh is present in the active site. We acknowledge Dr. Camille Malonzo May (UMN), Dr. David Kaphan (Argonne), Dr. Tata Gopinath (UMN), and Dr. Zhanyong Li (NW) for experimental assistance, and Dr. Dale Pahls for preliminary theoretical calculations. This work was supported as part of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-SC0012702. This research used resources of: (1) the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility; and, (2) the University of Minnesota Characterization Facility, which is supported by the NSF through the MRSEC, ERC, MRI, and NNIN programs. X-ray crystallographic data have been deposited in the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre database (CCDC 1842577 to 1842581).},
doi = {10.1021/jacs.8b08550},
journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
number = 45,
volume = 140,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {10}
}
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