格式化
铜
氢化物
化学
路易斯酸
无机化学
组合化学
金属
有机化学
催化作用
作者
Erik A. Romero,Tianxiang Zhao,Ryo Nakano,Xingbang Hu,Youting Wu,Rodolphe Jazzar,Guy Bertrand
出处
期刊:Nature Catalysis
[Springer Nature]
日期:2018-09-24
卷期号:1 (10): 743-747
被引量:98
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41929-018-0140-3
摘要
The reduction of CO2 into formic acid or its conjugate base, using dihydrogen, is an attractive process. While catalysts based on noble metals have shown high turnover numbers, the use of abundant first-row metals is underdeveloped. The key steps of the reaction are CO2 insertion into a metal hydride and regeneration of the metal hydride with H2, along with the concomitant production of formate. For the first step, copper is known as one of the most efficient metals, as shown by the numerous copper-catalysed carboxylation reactions, but this metal has difficulties activating H2 to achieve the second step. Here, we report a catalytic system involving a stable copper hydride that activates CO2, working in tandem with a Lewis pair that heterolytically splits H2. In this system, unprecedented turnover numbers for copper are obtained. Surprisingly, through a combination of stoichiometric and catalytic reactions, we show that classical Lewis pairs outperform frustrated Lewis pairs in this process. Due to its ready availability and low cost, copper is an attractive metal for the homogeneous reduction of CO2 to formate. However, although CO2 can readily insert into copper hydrides to produce metal-bound formate, subsequent regeneration of the catalytic species with H2 is more challenging. Here a dual strategy is used, whereby a copper hydride activates CO2 and a Lewis pair heterolytically splits H2, leading to dramatically improved performance.
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