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Weili Jiang1, Cheng Huang1, Minghao Huang1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of New Energy and Materials, China University of Petroleum Beijing, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
Heterogeneous catalytic hydroformylation of higher olefins often suffers from substrate diffusion limitations and unclear active species. We overcame both challenges using a self-pillared MFI zeolite anchoring Rh single atoms. By controlling reaction and calcination conditions, we synthesized catalyst Rh1@SPP-MFI (Rh1@SPP-S-1, Rh1@SPP-ZSM-5, Rh1@SPP-TS-1) using a one-pot method. Extended x-ray absorption analysis combined with cs-corrected high-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) confirmed each Rh atom coordinated with four O atoms as a well-defined Rh1.5+-O4 structure confined in zeolite cages. The thickness of the zeolite nanosheets was approximately 1.5 b-axis unit cells, interlayer spacing ∼ 3.0 nm, making them ideal as nanoreactors. At 353 K and 2.5 MPa, the catalyst achieved a turnover frequency (TOF) of 7074 h-1 for 1-octene to nonanal, outperforming most homogeneous/heterogeneous catalysts under comparable conditions. Over five cycles (36 h), each Rh atom processed ∼6881 olefin molecules per hour. Density functional theory (DFT) revealed evident electron transfer from O to Rh in the RhO4 unit, and the flexible Rh-O bonds mitigated steric hindrance during hydroformylation. This work reveals the microstructure and working mechanism of supported Rh catalysts, and correlates them with the classical homogeneous catalytic mechanism.
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