Mixed-valence manganese calcium oxides as efficient catalysts for water oxidation

Incorporation of calcium to mixed-valence manganese oxides improved the water oxidation activity of these manganese oxides.     

Calcium manganese(IV) oxides: biomimetic and efficient catalysts for water oxidation

CaMnO(3) and Ca(2)Mn(3)O(8) were synthesized and characterized by SEM, XRD, FTIR and BET. Both oxides showed oxygen evolution activity in the presence of oxone, cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate and H(2)O(2). Oxygen evolution from water during irradiation with visible light (λ > 400 nm) was also observed upon adding these manganese oxides to an aqueous solution containing tris(2,2'-bipyridyl) ruthenium(II), as photosensitizer, and chloro pentaammine cobalt(III) chloride, as electron acceptor, in an acetate buffer. The amounts of dissolved manganese and calcium from CaMnO(3) and Ca(2)Mn(3)O(8) in the oxygen evolving reactions were reported and compared with other (calcium) manganese oxides. Proposed mechanisms of oxygen evolution and proposed roles for the calcium ions are also considered.     

Superparamagnetic mesoporous Mg-Fe bi-metal oxides as efficient magnetic solid-base catalysts for Knoevenagel condensations

Superparamagnetic mesoporous Mg-Fe bi-metal oxides with varied Mg-Fe atomic ratios have been successfully synthesized as solid base catalysts. The M2F-400 catalyst with Mg/Fe atomic ratio = 2 showed extraordinarily high activities for Knoevenagel reactions even at room temperature. It could be magnetically separated, recycled, and reused for at least five cycles.     

Nanoscale manganese oxide within Faujasite zeolite as an efficient and biomimetic water oxidizing catalyst

Nanoscale manganese oxides within Faujasite zeolite have been synthesized with a simple method and characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction spectrometry, N(2) adsorption-desorption isotherms, transmission electron microscopy, and atomic absorption spectroscopy. These oxides showed efficient water oxidizing activity in the presence of cerium(iv) ammonium nitrate as a non-oxo transfer oxidant.     

Aluminium nitrate as a precursor of mesoporous aluminium oxides

The thermal transformations of the products of hydrous aluminium nitrate hydrolysis in ammonia medium were studied by thermal analysis, mass spectrometry, infrared spectrophotometry, X-ray phase analysis, and sorption methods. Experiments have shown that the hydrolysis of hydrous aluminium nitrate in ammonia medium at pH=6-7 leads to the formation of boehmite. The degree of crystallinity of this product increases, if the hydrolysis is carried out for 264 h at 100°C, with respect the samples separated from the mother liquor just after completing the dosage of the reagents. It has also been found that aluminium oxide, obtained by thermal decomposition of the products of hydrolysis carried out for 264 h at an increased temperature, is characterized by a well developed specific surface, stable at high temperatures, amounting to about 100 m2 g^-1, after calcination for 2 h at 1200°C. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

IR spectra of manganese oxides with either layered or tunnel structures

Four kinds of manganese oxides with either layered or tunnel structures were prepared by different methods. The structural features of the prepared materials were characterized by power X-ray diffraction, IR spectra and SEM observation. A compare analysis of IR spectra for these materials before and after the acid treatment was carried out. Band around 761 cm(-1) could be assigned to a characteristic adsorbent band of tunnel-type manganese oxides; while it was not observed in layer-type manganese oxides. After the acid treatment, the position and relative intensity of the bands in 300-1200 cm(-1) region showed an obvious change for layered manganese oxides in compare with tunnel-type manganese oxides. The variation of IR spectra could be used to distinguish layered manganese oxides from tunnel manganese oxides.     

Tunable single-site ruthenium catalysts for efficient water oxidation

The catalytic water oxidation activity of mononuclear ruthenium complexes comprising a pyridine-functionalized abnormal triazolylidene ligand can be adjusted by modification of the triazolylidene substituents, which is readily achieved through click-type cycloaddition chemistry, affording some of the most active ruthenium catalysts known thus far for water oxidation (TONs > 400, TOFs close to 7000 h(-1)).     

Ruthenium complexes with chelating carboxylate-NHC ligands as efficient catalysts for CH arylation in water

Ruthenium(ii) complexes with chelating N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands were studied in the arylation of phenyl group in 2-phenylpyridine and 1-phenylpyrazole with aryl chlorides in water. Complexes with NHC-ligands containing a hemilabile coordinating N-carboxylatomethyl group enable fast and selective ortho-CH-diarylation in the absence of carboxylate-assisting additives.     

Pillared clays as efficient catalysts for cyclohexanol oxidation

Summary Iron, aluminium and mixed iron aluminium pillared clays were prepared by partial hydrolysis method and doped with 10% V and Mo. The samples were characterised by XRD, FTIR and surface area and pore volume measurements. Oxidation of cyclohexanol with hydrogen peroxide was done as probe reaction to test catalytic activity. Iron pillared systems exhibited maximum activity. The effects of various reaction variables on the reaction were studied.     

Nano-size amorphous calcium-manganese oxide as an efficient and biomimetic water oxidizing catalyst for artificial photosynthesis: back to manganese

A nano-size amorphous calcium-manganese oxide shows efficient water oxidation activity in the presence of cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate.     

Light-mediated heterogeneous cross dehydrogenative coupling reactions: metal oxides as efficient, recyclable, photoredox catalysts in C-C bond-forming reactions

Let there be light: A heterogeneous photocatalytic system based on easily recyclable TiO(2) or ZnO allows cross dehydrogenative coupling reactions of tertiary amines. The newly developed protocols have successfully been applied to various C-C and C-P bond-forming reactions to provide nitro amines as well as amino ketones, nitriles and phosphonates.     

The combined action of aluminium oxides and halogen compounds as flame retardants

Studies have been made of the effects of mixtures of aluminium oxides and organic halogen compounds on the flammability of polyethylene and an acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer (ABS). There is considerable synergism in the flame-retardant action, particularly when anhydrous alumina and a bromine compound are introduced into ABS. The addition of relatively small amounts of alumina prevents the saturation effects otherwise observed when increasing quantities of halogen compounds on their own are incorporated into the polymers. Chemical interaction between aluminium oxides and the halogens occurs in the condensed phase.     

A growth mechanism for carbon nanotubes using metal oxides as catalysts

Metal oxides have only recently begun to be used as catalysts for the growth of carbon nanotubes. Here, we propose a new model for the growth of carbon nanotubes, based on the intra‐granular charge transfer transition and the lattice strain of the catalyst nanoparticles. This is supported by results obtained from the doped metal oxides like samarium doped zinc oxide (SmZnO) and terbium doped zinc oxide (TbZnO). The intragranular charge transfer transition is believed to be responsible for the dissociation of the hydrocarbon molecules. The lattice strain of the catalyst nanoparticles appears to be responsible for the diffusion of carbon atoms through the catalyst particles.     

Monomeric cyclopentadiene molybdenum oxides and their carbonyl precursors as epoxidation catalysts

Monomeric cyclopentadiene molybdenum oxides were among the first synthesized high oxidation state organometallics. However, their syntheses and applications have long been overshadowed by their rhenium(VII) congeners, in particular by (pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)trioxorhenium(VII) and methyltrioxorhenium(VII). Only during the last decade a renaissance of the cyclopentadienyl molybdenum oxides is starting. Both with respect to synthetic access ways and to applications as oxidation catalysts in homogeneous and heterogeneous phase the interest in cyclopentadienyl molybdenum oxides and their tricarbonyl precursors is increasing. This results from the usually time-easy and straightforward synthetic procedures leading to these compounds and their easy heterogenizability, both on mesoporous materials and in ionic liquids. The catalytic performance, especially in olefin epoxidation with tert-butylhydroperoxide being the oxidant is very good and the derivatization to reach taylor made catalysts seems to be much easier than in the case of the organorhenium oxides. Another advantage in comparison to the latter complexes is the possible presence of two organic functionalities, which can be independently modified, e.g. for heterogenization of the complexes and for the enhancing of their catalytic activity at the same time.     

Mixed oxides of transition metals as catalysts for total ethanol oxidation

Oxides of transition metals could be suitable alternatives to catalysts based on noble metals in the oxidation processes used for the abatement of volatile organic compounds. Mixed oxides of transition metals can exhibit good efficiency and thermal stability, as well as being inexpensive. In this work, oxide catalysts containing various combinations of Cu, Co, Ni, Mn, and Al, grained or supported on oxidised aluminium foil Al₂O₃/Al, were studied in terms of their chemical and physical properties, including their chemical composition, porous structure, phase composition, reducibility, and activity in total ethanol oxidation. Ternary co-precipitated catalysts in the form of grains obtained from layered double hydroxide-like precursors were highly active, especially those containing manganese. Deposition of the selected precursors on an anodised aluminium foil-support afforded less active catalysts, mainly because the required metal molar ratios were not achieved, and insufficient amounts of metals were deposited. However, by controlling the preparation conditions (pH), higher loading of active components and higher catalytic activity were obtained.     

New dialkylenetriamine zinc complexes as highly efficient ROP catalysts

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Superhydrophobic materials as efficient catalysts for hydrocarbon selective oxidation

A new type of superhydrophobic material, FP-Co-SiO(2) was prepared with organic groups immobilized on the surface of the SiO(2)-based nanocomposite. This material showed much higher catalytic activity for selective oxidation of hydrocarbons than an equivalent hydrophilic catalyst.     

Phosphine oxides as efficient neutral coordinate-organocatalysts for stereoselective allylation of N-acylhydrazones

Phosphine oxides were found to be efficient neutral coordinate-organocatalysts (NCOs) for the allylation of N-acylhydrazones. Among the phosphine oxides tested, a three carbon-tethered bisphosphine oxide (dppp dioxide) was found to be the most effective, and in the presence of dppp dioxide, less reactive aromatic and [small alpha],[small beta]-unsaturated N-acylhydrazones underwent allylation as well as diastereoselective crotylation. Furthermore, a polymer-supported phosphine oxide was also developed as an effective immobilized NCO.     

Tertiary amine oxides as phase transfer catalysts for substitution and dichlorocyclopropanation reactions

Tertiary amine oxides catalyze a variety of phase transfer reactions, primarily by $\text{in}$$\text{situ}$ deoxygenation to form the tertiary amine or derived catalyst.     

Phosphoraneiminato tungsten alkylidyne complexes as highly efficient alkyne metathesis catalysts

The tungsten neopentylidyne complexes [Me₃CCW(NPR₃){OCMe(CF₃)₂}₂] (3a, R = Cy; 3b, R = iPr) were prepared in excellent yields by the reaction of the solvate complex [Me₃CCW{OCMe(CF₃)₂}₃(DME)] (DME = 1,2-dimethoxyethane) with equimolar amounts of the corresponding phosphoraneiminato lithium species R₃PNLi (R = Cy, iPr) at room temperature. The products were characterized by ¹H, ¹³C{¹H}, ¹⁹F{¹H} and ³¹P{¹H} NMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. Single crystals of both complexes were obtained from diethyl ether solutions at −35 °C, and the molecular structures were determined by X-ray diffraction analysis. Complexes 3a and 3b are able to efficiently catalyse alkyne cross-metathesis (ACM) of 3-pentynyl benzyl ether (4) and ring-closing alkyne metathesis (RCAM) of bis(3-pentynyl)adipate (6) at room temperature and with low catalyst loadings (1 or 2 mol%) to afford the diether 5 and the cyclic diester 7 in virtually quantitative yields. The reactions were carried out in the presence of molecular sieve 5 Å to adsorb 2-butyne during the metathesis.