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Synthesis and Functionalization of Nitrogen-doped Carbon Nanotube Cups with Gold Nanoparticles as Cork Stoppers
Published on: May 13, 2013
Grouping Effect of Single Nickel-N4 Sites in Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Boosts Hydrogen Transfer Coupling of Alcohols and
Hui Su1, Peng Gao1, Meng-Ying Wang1
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P. R. China.
Abstract:
As a new type of heterogeneous catalyst with "homogeneous-like" activity, single-site transition-metal materials are usually treated as integrated but separate active centers. A novel grouping effect is reported for single Ni-N4 sites in nitrogen-doped carbon (Ni/NC), where an effective ligand-stabilized polycondensation method endows Ni/NC nanocatalysts with a high content of single-site Ni up to 9.5 wt %. The enhanced electron density at each single Ni-N4 site promotes a highly efficient hydrogen transfer, which is exemplified by the coupling of benzyl alcohol and aniline into N-benzylaniline with a turnover frequency (TOF) value of 7.0 molN-benzylaniline molmetal -1 h-1 ; this TOF outpaces that of reported stable non-noble-metal-based catalysts by a factor of 2.
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