Photoinduced reversible structural transformation and selective oxidation catalysis of unsaturated ruthenium complexes supported on SiO2.
Photoinduced reversible structural transformation and selective oxidation catalysis of unsaturated ruthenium complexes supported on SiO2.
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10.1002/anie.200803122
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2008-11
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Mizuki Tada;Yusaku Akatsuka;Yong Yang;Takehiko Sasaki;Mutsuo Kinoshita;Ken Motokura;Y. Iwasawa
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Mizuki Tada;Yusaku Akatsuka;Yong Yang;Takehiko Sasaki;Mutsuo Kinoshita;Ken Motokura;Y. Iwasawa
The photoirradiation of a SiO2-supported Ru complex was found to promote the selective formation of two different, novel unsaturated Ru structures on the surface, dependent on an O2 or N2 atmosphere, differing in the orientation of an Ru H moiety. One of these structures, owing to an appropriate Ru H conformation, catalyzed the selective photooxidation of cycloalkanes with O2. The two surface-bound unsaturated Ru complexes undergo reversible structural interconversion by photoexcitation at different wavelengths under different atmospheres. On heterogeneous catalyst surfaces, owing to the limited accessibility of reactants, rate-enhancement and new catalytic strategies can often be developed using novel, coordinatively unsaturated metal structures, which are hard to isolate in homogeneous solutions. Attachment of metal complexes onto a surface results in their stabilization and prevents aggregation and decomposition. Recently, we produced a novel three-coordinate unsaturated ruthenium complex on a SiO2 surface by coupling with SiO2-bound p-styryltrimethoxysilane. The unsaturated Ru complex was highly active for selective alkene epoxidation using a mixture of isobutyraldehyde and O2. However, the Ru complex was inactive for selective oxidation of saturated hydrocarbons with O2 as a sole oxidant, which may be more important from the viewpoint of practical use as a catalyst. A SiO2-supported Ru complex (B) was prepared using a N-sulfonyl-1,2-ethylenediamine–Ru complex (A) and pstyryltrimethoxysilane-functionalized SiO2 (Scheme 1, Supporting Information 1). The local coordination structure of B was similar to that of A. Ultraviolet irradiation (l> 275 nm) of B under N2 was found to cause the stoichiometric elimination of a coordinated p-cymene ligand from the supported Ru complex. 87% of free p-cymene was detected in a solution after the photoirradiation of B under N2 for 2 h (Table 1) affording the coordinatively unsaturated Ru complex C2. The elimination of p-cymene was also evidenced by C solid-state magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR spectroscopy (Figure 1). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) revealed a shift in binding energy of Ru 3d5/2, on elimination of p-cymene, from 282.0 eV for B, to 282.2 eV for C2, (Table 1 and Supporting Information 2). The shift in the binding energy of Ru 3d5/2 indicates that the surface Ru complex is positively charged by the photoirradiation. However, the similar ratio of the XPS signal intensities for Cl 2p to Ru 3p3/2 in B and C2 indicates that the supported Ru complex C2 retains a Cl ligand. A change was also evident in the Ru K-edge X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopic signal (see Supporting Information 3). Ru K-edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopic analysis revealed two coordinations, Ru O(N) and Ru Cl, with bond orders of 3.2 and 1.0 , and bond distances of (2.10 0.01) and (2.38 0.01) , respectively (see Supporting Information 4), which confirms the retention of Cl, suggested by XPS, and also indicates surface coordination to Ru by oxygen, alongside the immobilization by silane coupling. C solid-state NMR spectroscopy indicated that the organic diamine ligand was retained during photoinduced p-cymene elimination (Figure 1). Photoirradiation (l> 275 nm) of B under an O2 atmosphere also resulted in dissociation of a p-cymene ligand (Table 1, Figure 1, Scheme 1) but afforded a different structure, C1, as evidenced by a very different UV/Vis spectrum to that of C2 (Figure 2). The spectrum for C2, produced under N2, shows two signals in the visible-light region, at 468 nm and 696 nm (Figure 2d), whereas that for C1, produced under O2, has one signal, at around 517 nm (Figure 2e). However, the XPS Ru 3d5/2 signal (at 282.2 eV), solid-state NMR spectrum, and Ru K-edge EXAFS spectrum of C1 were almost the same as those of C2. Notably, C1 and C2 are interconverted reversibly: C1 was converted into C2 by photoirradiation (l> 275 nm) under N2, and C2 was converted into C1 by photoirradiation (l> 370 nm) under O2 (Figure 2e–h). Neither O2 [*] Dr. M. Tada, Y. Akatsuka, Dr. Y. Yang, M. Kinoshita, Dr. K. Motokura, Prof. Dr. Y. Iwasawa Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science The University of Tokyo 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan). Fax: (+ 81)3-5800-6892 E-mail: iwasawa@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp