Single-site catalyst promoters accelerate metal-catalyzed nitroarene hydrogenation
Abstract
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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- Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China)
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- 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)
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1511705
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-04ER15513
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Wang, Liang, Guan, Erjia, Zhang, Jian, Yang, Junhao, Zhu, Yihan, Han, Yu, Yang, Ming, Cen, Cheng, Fu, Gang, Gates, Bruce C., and Xiao, Feng-Shou. Single-site catalyst promoters accelerate metal-catalyzed nitroarene hydrogenation. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03810-y.
Wang, Liang, Guan, Erjia, Zhang, Jian, Yang, Junhao, Zhu, Yihan, Han, Yu, Yang, Ming, Cen, Cheng, Fu, Gang, Gates, Bruce C., & Xiao, Feng-Shou. Single-site catalyst promoters accelerate metal-catalyzed nitroarene hydrogenation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03810-y
Wang, Liang, Guan, Erjia, Zhang, Jian, Yang, Junhao, Zhu, Yihan, Han, Yu, Yang, Ming, Cen, Cheng, Fu, Gang, Gates, Bruce C., and Xiao, Feng-Shou. Tue .
"Single-site catalyst promoters accelerate metal-catalyzed nitroarene hydrogenation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03810-y. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1511705.
@article{osti_1511705,
title = {Single-site catalyst promoters accelerate metal-catalyzed nitroarene hydrogenation},
author = {Wang, Liang and Guan, Erjia and Zhang, Jian and Yang, Junhao and Zhu, Yihan and Han, Yu and Yang, Ming and Cen, Cheng and Fu, Gang and Gates, Bruce C. and Xiao, Feng-Shou},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-03810-y},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {4}
}
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