2213-32-3Relevant articles and documents
Cross-linked polymer coated Pd nanocatalysts on SiO2 support: Very selective and stable catalysts for hydrogenation in supercritical CO 2
Wu, Tianbin,Jiang, Tao,Hu, Baoji,Han, Buxing,He, Jinling,Zhou, Xiaosi
, p. 798 - 803 (2009)
Using greener solvents, enhancing the selectivity and stability of catalysts is an important aspect of green chemistry. In this work, we developed a route to immobilize Pd nanoparticles on the surface of silica particles with cross-linked polystyrene coating by one-step copolymerization, and Pd(0) nanocatalysts supported on the silica particle supports with cross-linked polystyrene coating were successfully prepared. The catalysts were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), plasma optical emission spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and were used for hydrogenation of 2,4-dimethyl-1,3-pentadiene to produce 2,4-dimethyl-2-pentene and allyl alcohol to produce 1-propanol. It was found that the selectivity of the reaction was enhanced significantly by the polymer coating, and the catalysts were very stable due to the insoluble nature of the cross-linked polymers. Supercritical (sc)CO2 can accelerate the reaction rates of the reactions catalyzed by the specially designed catalysts significantly. The excellent combination of polymer coating and scCO2 has wide potential applications in catalysis.
Alkanethiolate-capped palladium nanoparticles for selective catalytic hydrogenation of dienes and trienes
Chen, Ting-An,Shon, Young-Seok
, p. 4823 - 4829 (2017/10/19)
Selective hydrogenation of dienes and trienes is an important process in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Our group previously reported that the thiosulfate protocol using a sodium S-alkylthiosulfate ligand could generate catalytically active Pd nanoparticles (PdNP) capped with a lower density of alkanethiolate ligands. This homogeneously soluble PdNP catalyst offers several advantages such as little contamination via Pd leaching and easy separation and recycling. In addition, the high activity of PdNP allows the reactions to be completed under mild conditions, at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. Herein, a PdNP catalyst capped with octanethiolate ligands (C8 PdNP) is investigated for the selective hydrogenation of conjugated dienes into monoenes. The strong influence of the thiolate ligands on the chemical and electronic properties of the Pd surface is confirmed by mechanistic studies and highly selective catalysis results. The studies also suggest two major routes for the conjugated diene hydrogenation: the 1,2-addition and 1,4-addition of hydrogen. The selectivity between two mono-hydrogenation products is controlled by the steric interaction of substrates and the thermodynamic stability of products. The catalytic hydrogenation of trienes also results in the almost quantitative formation of mono-hydrogenation products, the isolated dienes, from both ocimene and myrcene.
Water-Enabled Catalytic Asymmetric Michael Reactions of Unreactive Nitroalkenes: One-Pot Synthesis of Chiral GABA-Analogs with All-Carbon Quaternary Stereogenic Centers
Sim, Jae Hun,Song, Choong Eui
supporting information, p. 1835 - 1839 (2017/02/05)
Water enables new catalytic reactions for otherwise unreactive substrate systems. Under the “on water” reaction conditions, extremely unreactive β,β-disubstituted nitroalkenes smoothly underwent enantioselective Michael addition reactions with dithiomalonates using a chiral squaramide catalyst, affording both enantiomers of highly enantioenriched Michael adducts with all-carbon-substituted quaternary centers. The developed “on water” protocol was successfully applied for the scalable one-pot syntheses of chiral GABA analogs with all-carbon quaternary stereogenic centers at the β-position, which might show highly interesting pharmaceutical properties.