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Nature ; 577(7791): 509-513, 2020 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31747679

RESUMO

The electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide, powered by renewable electricity, to produce valuable fuels and feedstocks provides a sustainable and carbon-neutral approach to the storage of energy produced by intermittent renewable sources1. However, the highly selective generation of economically desirable products such as ethylene from the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) remains a challenge2. Tuning the stabilities of intermediates to favour a desired reaction pathway can improve selectivity3-5, and this has recently been explored for the reaction on copper by controlling morphology6, grain boundaries7, facets8, oxidation state9 and dopants10. Unfortunately, the Faradaic efficiency for ethylene is still low in neutral media (60 per cent at a partial current density of 7 milliamperes per square centimetre in the best catalyst reported so far9), resulting in a low energy efficiency. Here we present a molecular tuning strategy-the functionalization of the surface of electrocatalysts with organic molecules-that stabilizes intermediates for more selective CO2RR to ethylene. Using electrochemical, operando/in situ spectroscopic and computational studies, we investigate the influence of a library of molecules, derived by electro-dimerization of arylpyridiniums11, adsorbed on copper. We find that the adhered molecules improve the stabilization of an 'atop-bound' CO intermediate (that is, an intermediate bound to a single copper atom), thereby favouring further reduction to ethylene. As a result of this strategy, we report the CO2RR to ethylene with a Faradaic efficiency of 72 per cent at a partial current density of 230 milliamperes per square centimetre in a liquid-electrolyte flow cell in a neutral medium. We report stable ethylene electrosynthesis for 190 hours in a system based on a membrane-electrode assembly that provides a full-cell energy efficiency of 20 per cent. We anticipate that this may be generalized to enable molecular strategies to complement heterogeneous catalysts by stabilizing intermediates through local molecular tuning.

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J Org Chem ; 81(11): 4841-6, 2016 06 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27159734

RESUMO

The bifunctional N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed [3 + 4] annulation of enals and 5-alkenyl thiazolones was developed, giving the corresponding thiazole-fused ε-lactones in high yields with excellent diastereoselectivties and enantioselectivities. The thiazole-fused ε-lactone could be isomerized to the spirocyclic thiazolone-cyclopentanone without erosion of enantioselectivity.

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Org Biomol Chem ; 14(27): 6422-5, 2016 Jul 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27314703

RESUMO

The enantioselective N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed [2 + 4] cyclocondensation of α-chloroaldehydes and saccharine-derived 1-azadienes was developed, giving the corresponding saccharine-derived dihydropyridinones in good yields with exclusive cis-selectivities and excellent enantioselectivities.


Assuntos
Di-Hidropiridinas/química , Di-Hidropiridinas/síntese química , Metano/análogos & derivados , Sacarina/química , Catálise , Ciclização , Metano/química , Estereoisomerismo
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Chemistry ; 21(5): 1868-72, 2015 Jan 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25504614

RESUMO

Bifunctional N-heterocyclic carbenes with a free hydroxy group are demonstrated as efficient catalysts for the [3+4] annulation of enals with aurones to give the corresponding benzofuran-fused ε-lactones in good yields with good diastereoselectivities and excellent enantioselectivities. Control experiments reveal that the [3+4] cycloadducts are kinetically favored and could be transformed to the thermodynamically favored [3+2] cycloadducts with a non-bifunctional NHC catalyst.

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J Org Chem ; 80(11): 5900-5, 2015 Jun 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25933360

RESUMO

The enantioselective N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed [4 + 2] cyclocondensation of α-chloroaldehydes and trifluoromethyl N-Boc azadienes was developed, giving the corresponding 3,4-disubstituted-6-trifluoromethyldihydropyridin-2(1H)-ones in good yields with exclusive cis-selectivities and excellent enantioselectivities.

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Chem Commun (Camb) ; 57(2): 195-198, 2021 Jan 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33300017

RESUMO

Phosphine-oxazoline (PHOX) ligands are a very important class of privileged ligands in asymmetric catalysis. A series of highly rigid oxa-spiro phosphine-oxazoline (O-SIPHOX) ligands based on O-SPINOL was synthesized efficiently, and their iridium complexes were synthesized by coordination of the O-SIPHOX ligands to [Ir(cod)Cl]2 in the presence of sodium tetrakis-3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenylborate (NaBArF). The cationic iridium complexes showed high reactivity and excellent enantioselectivity in the asymmetric hydrogenation of 1-methylene-tetrahydro-benzo[d]azepin-2-ones (up to 99% yield and up to 99% ee). A key intermediate of the anti-obesity drug lorcaserin could be efficiently synthesized using this protocol.

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Nat Commun ; 10(1): 4807, 2019 10 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31641126

RESUMO

The upgrading of CO2/CO feedstocks to higher-value chemicals via energy-efficient electrochemical processes enables carbon utilization and renewable energy storage. Substantial progress has been made to improve performance at the cathodic side; whereas less progress has been made on improving anodic electro-oxidation reactions to generate value. Here we report the efficient electroproduction of value-added multi-carbon dimethyl carbonate (DMC) from CO and methanol via oxidative carbonylation. We find that, compared to pure palladium controls, boron-doped palladium (Pd-B) tunes the binding strength of intermediates along this reaction pathway and favors DMC formation. We implement this doping strategy and report the selective electrosynthesis of DMC experimentally. We achieve a DMC Faradaic efficiency of 83 ± 5%, fully a 3x increase in performance compared to the corresponding pure Pd electrocatalyst.

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Nat Commun ; 9(1): 3828, 2018 09 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30237471

RESUMO

Copper-based materials are promising electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction. Prior studies show that the mixture of copper (I) and copper (0) at the catalyst surface enhances multi-carbon products from CO2 reduction; however, the stable presence of copper (I) remains the subject of debate. Here we report a copper on copper (I) composite that stabilizes copper (I) during CO2 reduction through the use of copper nitride as an underlying copper (I) species. We synthesize a copper-on-nitride catalyst that exhibits a Faradaic efficiency of 64 ± 2% for C2+ products. We achieve a 40-fold enhancement in the ratio of C2+ to the competing CH4 compared to the case of pure copper. We further show that the copper-on-nitride catalyst performs stable CO2 reduction over 30 h. Mechanistic studies suggest that the use of copper nitride contributes to reducing the CO dimerization energy barrier-a rate-limiting step in CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products.

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Org Lett ; 17(20): 5140-3, 2015 Oct 16.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26418159

RESUMO

The N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed cascade reaction of enals with malonates to give bicyclic δ-lactones was developed. The cyclopentane- and cyclohexane-fused δ-lactones with three continued stereocenters were obtained in high yields with excellent diastereo- and high enantioselectivities.

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