Recent progress in catalytic NO decomposition

Recent progress in catalytic direct NO decomposition is overviewed, focusing on metal oxide-based catalysts. Since the discovery of the Cu-ZSM-5 catalyst in the early 1990s, various kinds of catalytic materials such as perovskites, C-type cubic rare earth oxides, and alkaline earth based oxides have been reported to effectively catalyze direct NO decomposition. Although the activities of conventional catalysts are poor in the presence of coexisting O₂ and CO₂, some of the catalysts reviewed in this article possess significant tolerance toward these coexisting gases. The active sites for direct NO decomposition are different depending on the types of metal oxide-based catalysts. In the case of perovskite type oxides, oxide anion vacancies act as catalytically active sites on which NO molecules are adsorbed. C-type cubic rare earth oxides contain oxide anion vacancies with large cavity space, enabling easy access of NO molecules and their subsequent adsorption. Surface basic sites on alkaline earth based oxides participate in NO decomposition as active sites on which NO molecules are adsorbed as NO₂⁻ species. The reaction mechanisms of direct NO decomposition are also discussed.     

铈锆固溶体的表面碱性对催化剂中Pd烧结性能的影响

以尿素为沉淀剂,采用均匀沉淀法制备了CexZr1-xO2(0≤x≤1)固溶体,并以其为载体制备了负载型Pd/CexZr1-xO2催化剂。利用XRD、N2物理吸附、CO脉冲化学吸附、CO2-TPD、原位漫反射红外光谱(in situ DRIFTS)等技术考察了载体表面碱性强弱对Pd/CexZr1-xO2催化剂中Pd烧结行为的影响。结果表明,载体的弱碱性位能有效抑制Pd的烧结,其中Pd/Ce0.75Zr0.25O2催化剂其载体具有更多的弱碱性位,活性组分钯的分散度较高,催化剂的热稳定性较好。     

功能化碳纳米管作为固体碱用于Knoevenagel缩合

采用液相沉积方法分别制备了聚乙烯亚胺功能化和聚4-乙烯基吡啶功能化的碳纳米管催化剂,利用N₂吸附/脱附、透射电子显微镜（TEM）、热重分析（TG）以及酸碱滴定等方法对所得催化剂的结构和碱性进行了表征,测试了其对于苯甲醛和丙二腈的Knoevenagel缩合反应的催化性能。结果发现,聚乙烯亚胺功能化的碳纳米管具有比聚4-乙烯基吡啶功能化的催化剂更高的碱催化能力。对碳纳米管进行强酸预处理可增加其与修饰剂的相互作用,虽然会降低其碱催化活性,但却可使其稳定性大大提高。     

Syntheses, magnetic and spectral studies on polystyrene supported coordination compounds of bidentate and tetradentate Schiff bases

The reaction of aminomethylated polystyrene (PSCH₂-NH₂) and 2-hydroxyacetanilide in DMF results in the formation of polystyrene-anchored monobasic bidentate Schiff base, PSCH₂-LH (I). On the other hand, the reaction of chloromethylated polystyrene (PSCH₂-Cl), 3-formylsalicylic acid, ethylenediamine and acetylacetone in DMF in presence of ethyl acetate (EA) and triethylamine (TEA) produces another polystyrene-anchored dibasic tetradentate Schiff base, PSCH₂-L′H₂ (II). BothI andII react with a number of di-, tri-and hexavalent metal ions like Co, Ni, Cu, Zn and Cd to form polystyreneanchored coordination compounds, and these have been characterized and discussed.     

Gold nanoparticles deposited on mesoporous alumina for epoxidation of styrene: Effects of the surface basicity of the supports

Three kinds of mesoporous alumina (denoted as meso-Al₂O₃-x (x = a, b, c)) supports with different surface basicity were synthesized by different structure-direct agent and different assembly pathway, respectively. The surface basicity of the meso-Al₂O₃-x and the commercial γ-Al₂O₃ was measured by means of CO₂-TPD and IR spectroscopy. The profiles of CO₂-TPD and IR spectra indicated that the mesoporous alumina owned more abundant surface basic sites than that of γ-Al₂O₃. Au nanoparticles deposited on the above supports via the method of homogeneous deposition precipitation (HDP) using urea as the precipitation agent. The supported Au catalysts were characterized by N₂ adsorption–desorption isotherms, TEM, XPS and testing the catalytic performances in the epoxidation of styrene. The dispersion and average size of the gold particles are dependent of the number of surface basic sites on the supports. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations show a homogeneous distribution of gold particles lower than 4 nm on meso-Al₂O₃-b and meso-Al₂O₃-c, which owned more basic sites on the surface. XPS spectra reveal that only metallic state of Au is presented on the supports, which is independent of surface properties. The different Al₂O₃ supported Au catalysts were employed as highly active/selective and reusable catalysts for the epoxidation of styrene by anhydrous t-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP). Au nanoparticles as well as the surface basic sites of the support are responsible for the epoxidation.     

Chiral bisphosphazides as dual basic enantioselective catalysts

Chiral bisphosphazides complexed with lithium salts efficiently catalyze the direct enantioselective 1,4-addition of dialkyl malonates to acyclic enones. Spectroscopic studies on the stoichiometry of the bisphosphazide and lithium salt have indicated the formation of a 1:1 species as the active enantioselective catalyst. It is suggested that the catalyst generates a complex of the protonated phosphazide and the chiral nucleophile as the key intermediate. The phosphazide moiety appears to be a promising dual basic functionality for stereo- and chemoselective catalytic transformations.     

Quantum-chemical investigation of certain physicochemical properties of C-nitro-1,2,3-triazole and N-alkyl-4(5)-nitro-1,2,3-triazoles

Quantum-chemical calculations have been carried out on molecular electrostatic potentials, proton affinity in the gas phase, gas phase basicity, and pK _BH+ values in aqueous solution for C-nitro- and N-alkyl-4(5)-nitro-1,2,3-triazoles, and the relative stability of the isomeric N-alkyl-4(5)-nitrotriazoles (alkyl = Me, Et, i-Pr, t-Bu) in the gas phase and in aqueous solution. For all the studied substances in the gas phase the 2H-tautomer and the N(2)-isomers were considerably more stable than the corresponding N(1) compounds, and the 3H-tautomer and N(3)-isomer were the least stable. In aqueous solution 1- and 3-isomers had close values of energies, but in the case of C-nitro-1,2,3-triazole the 1H form became even more stable than the 2H-form. It was established which ring nitrogen atoms of 1,2,3-triazoles are protonated in the gas phase and in solution. The obtained data correlate well with the results of experimental investigations on the alkylation of 1,2,3-triazoles in acidic and basic media and of the experimental investigation on the alkylation of C-nitro-1,2,3-triazoles with diethyl sulfate carried out in the present work. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 12, pp. 1816–1828, December, 2008.     

Basicity of trifluoromethylsulfonylformamidines. DFT and FTIR study and NBO analysis

The effect of the electron–acceptor substituent CF₃SO₂ at the imine nitrogen atom on the basicity and the electron distribution in N,N‐alkylformamidines ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ) was studied experimentally by the FTIR spectroscopy and theoretically at the DFT (B3LYP/6‐311+G(d,p)) level of theory, including the natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis. The calculated proton affinities of the imine nitrogen atom and the sulfonyl oxygen (PA_N′ and PA_O) depend on the atomic charges, the C?N′ and N′―S bond polarity and on the energy of interaction of the amine nitrogen and the oxygen lone pairs with antibonding π* and σ*‐orbitals. The basicity of the imine nitrogen atom is increased with the increase of the electron‐donating power of the substituent at the amine nitrogen atom due to stronger interaction n_N → π*_C?N′, but is decreased for the electron‐withdrawing groups MeSO₂ and CF₃SO₂ at the imine nitrogen atom in spite of the increase of this conjugation. Protonation of ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ) in CH₂Cl₂ solution in the presence of CF₃SO₃H occurs at the imine nitrogen atom, while the formation of hydrogen bonds with 4‐fluorophenol takes place at the sulfonyl oxygen atom, whose basicity is lower than that of N,N′‐dimethylmethanesulfonamide but higher than of N,N′‐dimethyltrifluoromethanesulfonamide. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

固体核磁共振技术研究金属氧化物类固体酸催化剂的酸碱性

固体核磁共振技术是研究固体催化剂酸碱性的有效工具.本文主要介绍了本课题组利用固体核磁共振技术进行固体酸催化剂酸碱性研究的进展,包括吸附水分子对金属氧化物表面酸性质影响的研究,以及结合酸碱探针分子共吸附表征方法对金属氧化物表面酸碱性的研究,对固体核磁共振技术定性和定量分析固体催化剂的酸碱性提出了一些新的见解.     

Computing pKA values of hexa‐aqua transition metal complexes

Aqueous pK_A values for 15 hexa‐aqua transition metal complexes were computed using a combination of quantum chemical and electrostatic methods. Two different structure models were considered optimizing the isolated complexes in vacuum or in presence of explicit solvent using a QM/MM approach. They yield very good agreement with experimentally measured pK_A values with an overall root mean square deviation of about 1 pH unit, excluding a single but different outlier for each of the two structure models. These outliers are hexa‐aqua Cr(III) for the vacuum and hexa‐aqua Mn(III) for the QM/MM structure model. Reasons leading to the deviations of the outlier complexes are partially explained. Compared to previous approaches from the same lab the precision of the method was systematically improved as discussed in this study. The refined methods to obtain the appropriate geometries of the complexes, developed in this work, may allow also the computation of accurate pK_A values for multicore transition metal complexes in different oxidation states. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.