Heterogeneous catalysis - Oxidant-free alcohol dehydrogenation using a reusable hydrotalcite-supported silver nanoparticle catalyst
Heterogeneous catalysis - Oxidant-free alcohol dehydrogenation using a reusable hydrotalcite-supported silver nanoparticle catalyst
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200703161
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Kaneda, Kiyotomi
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作者:
Mitsudome, Takato;Mikami, Yusuke;Kaneda, Kiyotomi
The dehydrogenation of alcohols to carbonyl compounds is one of the most important transformations in synthetic chemistry.[1] Recently, much attention has been paid to the development of homogeneous [2] and heterogeneous [3] catalysts for the highly efficient oxidation of alcohols using molecular oxygen (O2) as the oxidant because of the necessity of replacing stoichiometric reactions involving toxic oxidants such as chromium and manganese salts with environmentally benign catalytic oxidation systems [Eq.(1)].[4] Alternative designs can be conceived for advanced, more atom-efficient catalyst systems, which do not use molecular oxygen or air as the oxidant for the above oxidation [Eq.(2)]. Our development of such a promising O2-free methodology is particularly interesting both from a practical and an environmental point of view because 1) it eliminates the formation of H2O, a byproduct which often deactivates catalysts and necessitates tedious purification of products from the aqueous reaction mixture; 2) it is tolerant toward alcohols having O2-sensitive functional groups; 3) it produces H2, which is an attractive feedstock for energy generation; and 4) it suppresses overoxidation of the substrate to carboxylic acids. Despite industrial success in the gas-phase dehydrogenation of alcohols,[5] few examples of milder liquid-phase catalyst systems for the acceptor-free dehydrogenation of alcohols have appeared to date, and these systems have often suffered from low activity, limited substrate scope, and reusability.[6] Hydrotalcites (HTs) are inorganic, layered materials that have attracted attention because of their potential not only for adsorption [7] and drug delivery [8] but also as catalysts.[9] Recently, we reported new strategies for the design of solid catalysts by utilizing modified HTs for various organic reactions such as the epoxidation of olefins using hydrogen peroxide,[9e] the oxidation of alcohols,[9a] and carbon–carbon bond formation.[9c] We now describe the highly effective acceptor-free dehydrogenation of alcohols using heterogeneous hydrotalcite-supported silver nanoparticles [10](Ag/HT). This Ag/HT catalyst system showed remarkably high catalytic activity for a wide range of alcohols. Moreover, the catalyst could be readily reused without any loss of activity and selectivity.Hydrotalcite (HT, Mg6Al2 (OH) 16CO3) was synthesized according to literature procedures.[11] To prepare the catalyst 1.0 g of the HT was added to 10 mL of a 5.0 mm aqueous solution of AgNO3, after which the heterogeneous mixture was stirred for 1 h in air at 38C. The resulting slurry was filtered, washed thoroughly with deionized water, and dried in vacuo at room temperature to yield a white powder. The HT-supported AgI ions were reduced with H2 at 1108C for 30minutes to give Ag/HT before it was used in the dehydrogenation. The positions of the peaks in the X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectrum of Ag/HT after the above pretreatment were similar to those of the parent HT. The fraction of Ag atoms in the Ag/HT composite was determined by elemental analysis to be 0.005 wt%. The transmission electron microscopy image of the Ag/HT showed Ag nanoparticles with a mean diameter of 3.3 nm.[12] When a mixture of 1-phenylethanol and Ag/HT in pxylene was heated at 1308C in an Ar atmosphere, quantitative dehydrogenation of 1-phenylethanol occurred within 16 h to afford acetophenone. The turnover frequency (TOF) and turnover number (TON) reached up to 1375 hÀ1 and 22000, respectively (Table 1, entry 1). The reaction rate could be accelerated under a stream of Ar, and the TOF significantly increased to 2000 hÀ1 (entry 2).[13] The mole ratio of H2 to acetophenone …