Intercalating lithium into the lattice of silver nanoparticles boosts catalytic hydrogenation of carbon–oxygen bonds

Coinage metal nanoparticles with high dispersion can serve as highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts. However, owing to their low melting point, poor thermal stability remains a major obstacle towards their application under reaction conditions. It is a common practice to use porous inorganic templates such as mesoporous silica SBA-15 to disperse Ag nanoparticles (NPs) against aggregation but their stability is far from satisfactory. Here, we show that the catalytic activity for hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate (DMO) to methyl glycolate (MG) over Ag NPs dispersed on SBA-15 silica can be further promoted by incorporation of alkali metal ions at small loading, which follows the inverse order of their cationic size: Li⁺ > Na⁺ > K⁺ > Rb⁺. Among these, 5Ag₁–Li_0.05/SBA-15 can double the MG yield compared to pristine 5Ag/SBA-15 under identical conditions with superior thermal stability. Akin to the effect of an ionic surfactant on stabilization of a micro-emulsion, the cationic charge of an alkali metal ion can maintain dispersion and modulate the surface valence of Ag NPs. Interstitial Li in the octahedral holes of the face center packed Ag lattice is for the first time confirmed by X-ray pair distribution function and electron ptychography. It is believed that this interstitial-stabilization of coinage metal nanoparticles could be broadly applicable to multi-metallic nanomaterials for a broad range of C–O bond activating catalytic reactions of esters.

Coinage metal nanoparticles with high dispersion can serve as highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts.     

Probing stereoselective inhibition of the acyl binding site of cholesterol esterase with four diastereomers of 2'-<Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-α-methylbenzylcarbamyl-1, 1'-bi-2-naphthol

Background  

Recently there has been increased interest in pancreatic cholesterol esterase due to correlation between enzymatic activity in vivo and absorption of dietary cholesterol. Cholesterol esterase plays a role in digestive lipid absorption in the upper intestinal tract, though its role in cholesterol absorption in particular is controversial. Serine lipases, acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase, and cholesterol esterase belong to a large family of proteins called the α/β-hydrolase fold, and they share the same catalytic machinery as serine proteases in that they have an active site serine residue which, with a histidine and an aspartic or glutamic acid, forms a catalytic triad. The aim of this work is to study the stereoselectivity of the acyl chain binding site of the enzyme for four diastereomers of an inhibitor.     

Systematic Study of Ti‐Distribution in Titanosilicate *BEA Zeolites via Symmetry‐Adapted Enumeration

The high performance of titanosilicate zeolites in various industrial oxidation reactions is highly affected by the distribution of Ti atoms in their frameworks. Because of their structural complexity, previous theoretical studies mainly focus on the preferential location of single Ti atoms within the unit cells of titanosilicate zeolites. When multiple Ti atoms are required, conventional approaches consider only symmetrically related T sites to reduce the computation complexity. Such symmetry‐constrained approaches obviously overlooked many possible configurations. Herein, we conduct a systematic study on the distribution of two Ti atoms in the unit cell of titanosilicate zeolite *BEA . Different from conventional symmetry‐constrained approaches, we introduce two Ti atoms simultaneously without any constraint and adopt a symmetry‐adapted algorithm to enumerate all possible configurations for double‐Ti introduction. We generate a total of 273 distinct configurations and analyze the Ti‐distribution via Boltzmann statistics. We find that many of the configurations overlooked by conventional symmetry‐constrained approaches indeed exhibit more feasible energies, which may lead to different Ti‐distributions. Our study indicates the necessity of unconstrained introduction of Ti atoms when multiple‐Ti atoms are considered for calculations.     

杂多阴离子的有机金属化学(Ⅲ)——缺位Keggin阴离子PWO9-34的酯基锡杂多配合物的合成及性质

利用酯基锡与缺位Keggin结构杂多阴离子PW9O9-34反应,合成了6种新的杂多阴离子--有机金属配合物M9[(R'OOCCHR"CH2SnOH2)3(PW9O34)2]·xH2O(M=(CH3)4N+,K+;R'=CH3-,CH3CH2-;R"=H,CH3-),通过元素分析、IR光谱、紫外电子光谱、1H NMR、31P NMP、183w NMR和TGA-DSC热分析等测试手段对标题配合物进行了表征和性质研究,确定该系列配合物为A-β-PW9 型夹心配合物结构.     

鳗鱼油的脂肪酸组成分析

鳗鱼加工下脚料（头、骨等）所得鱼油经甲酯化处理后，用GC和GC-MS进行了脂肪酸的组成分析，共签定出27个组分，它们占色谱峰总面积的97．9％。其主组分为油酸、棕榈酸、棕榈油酸，并含有廿碳五烯酸、廿二碳六烯酸，与鳗鱼肉中油的化学组成类似，具有开发利用的价值。     

铜(Ⅱ)-4-(喹啉-8′-甲基)-1,4,7,10-四氮杂环十三烷-11,13-二酮-α-氨基酸或5-取代邻菲罗啉两类三元配合物的稳定性研究

用 p H法在 (2 5.0± 0 .1 )℃ ,I=0 .1 mol· dm-3 KNO3 条件下 ,测定 Cu( ) - 4 - (喹啉 - 8′-甲基 ) - 1 ,4,7,1 0 -四氮杂环十三烷 - 1 1 ,1 3-二酮 -α-氨基酸或 5-取代邻菲罗啉两类三元配合物的稳定常数 ;研究了带甲基喹啉侧基大环多胺配体与 Cu( )离子的配位能力、配位方式 ;发现这两类三元体系配合物有特殊的稳定性 ;而且它们的稳定性与配体α-氨基酸及 5-取代邻菲罗啉酸碱强度之间的直线自由能关系的变化趋势相反 ;探讨了 Cu( )和 5-取代邻菲罗啉之间的 d- p反馈π键及其取代基 Hammett诱导效应的关系。     

3－苯氧甲基－6－（2，4－二氟苯基）－7H-1,2,4-三唑并[3,4-b][1,3,4]噻二嗪的合成与晶体结构研究

由苯氧乙酸出发，经多步反应，制得3-苯氧甲基－4－氨基－5－巯基－1，2， 4－三唑，它与2-氯－2'，4'－二氟苯乙酮进行环化反应，生成3-苯氧甲基－6－（ 2,4-二氟苯基）－7H-1,2,4-三唑并[3,4-b][1,3,4]噻二嗪，通过元素分析、红外 光谱、核磁共振氢谱与碳谱、质谱进行表征，并利用单晶X射线衍射法测定其结构 。晶体属单斜晶系、P2_(1/c)空间群，a = 1.339(3) nm, b = 1.4683(4) nm, c = 0.8606(2) nm, β = 108.49(2)°, Z = 4, F(000) = 736, R_1 = 0.0509。还 对均三唑并噻二唑两类稠杂环的晶体结构作了比较。     

配合物稳定性与配体酸碱强度之间的直线自由能关系 XIII. N-(间位取代苯基)氨基乙酸，邻菲啰啉(α,'α-联吡啶)与镍(II),钴(II)和锌(II)生成三元配合物的稳定性研究

The formation constants of ternary mixed ligand complex compounds (logK_(MAB~(MA)) formed from 1,10-phenanthroline or 2,2'-bipyridyl (A), N-(meta-substituted phenyl) glycines, (B, m-RphG, R=CH_3, H, CH_3O, Cl) with Nickel(Ⅱ), Cobalt(Ⅱ) and Zinc(Ⅱ) were determined by pH method at 25 ℃ in 30% (Volume) ethanol solution in presence of 0.1 mol·dm~(-3) NaClO_4 or 0.1 mol·dm~(-3) KNO_3. It was found that linear free energy relationships exist between the stability of ternary complex compounds and the base strengths of ligands in all six ternary systems investigated. The stability of the ternary complex compounds was discused in terms of ΔlogK_M values and HSAB theory. It was found that linear relationships also exist between ΔlogK_M and pK_2 in the Ni(II)-phen-m-RPhG ternary system.     

连续一级反应的热动力学研究

本文把时间比法引入热动力学研究,建立了连续一级反应的热动力学研究法,并用来研究了一个连续反应体系的热动力学,验证了该方法的正确性.     

芳香族重氮盐氧化还原引发体系的研究——Ⅲ.芳香族重氮盐与亚铁盐氧化还原引发丙烯腈聚合过程中微量铜离子的影响

以苯重氮硼氟酸盐与亚铁盐在微量铜离子存在时能引发丙烯腈聚合,聚合速率服从:R∝[φN_2~+]~(1/2)[Fe~(++)]~(1/4)[Cu~(++)]~(1/4),氧化还原引发历程为: Fe~(++)+Cu~(++) Fe~(+++)+Cu~+ φN_2~++Cu~+→φ·+N_2+Cu~(++) φ·+M→φM·→φMM·…该历程符合上述动力学关系。但使用对硝基苯重氮硼氟酸盐时,微量铜离子对聚合反应速率影响不大,与亚铁盐浓度在一定范围呈R∝[Fe~(++)]~(1/2)的关系,因此例的引发历程为: φN_2~++Fe~(++)→φ·+N_2+Fe~(+++) φ·+M→φM·→φMM·…苯环上推电子取代基降低了重氮基的氧化势,如对位取代甲氧基、甲基或没有取代基都不能用纯亚铁盐引发丙烯腈聚合,需有微量铜盐存在才能聚合。而拉电子取代基如对位取代硝基、羧基可用纯亚铁盐引发聚合。