An N-heterocyclic Carbene Ligand Promotes Highly Selective Alkyne Semihydrogenation with Copper Nanoparticles Supported on Passivated Silica

Overview

Journal Chem Sci

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2018 Jul 17

PMID 30009008

Citations 12

Authors

Nicolas Kaeffer

Hsueh-Ju Liu

Hung-Kun Lo

Alexey Fedorov

Christophe Coperet

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Abstract

We report a surface organometallic route that generates copper nanoparticles (NPs) on a silica support while simultaneously passivating the silica surface with trimethylsiloxy groups. The material is active for the catalytic semihydrogenation of phenylalkyl-, dialkyl- and diaryl-alkynes and displays high chemo- and stereoselectivity at full alkyne conversion to corresponding ()-olefins in the presence of an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand. Solid-state NMR spectroscopy using the NHC ligand C-labeled at the carbenic carbon reveals a genuine coordination of the carbene to Cu NPs. The presence of distinct Cu surface environments and the coordination of the NHC to specific Cu sites likely account for the increased selectivity.

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