Publications related to Dehydrogenation

A Cobalt Nanocatalyst for the Hydrogenation and Oxidative Dehydrogenation of N-heterocycles

Paul Joseph Dyson, Mingyang Liu, Xiang Li, Yelin Hu, Matthias Beller

Catalytic hydrogenation and oxidative dehydrogenation of N-heterocycles to produce tetrahydroquinoline and quinoline derivatives are important reactions of particular importance in the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Herein, we report earth-abu ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2023

Grafting of Alkali Metals on Fumed Silica for the Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Methanol to Formaldehyde

Oliver Kröcher, Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Christophe Jean Baranowski, Jack Brandon

Water free, non-oxidative catalytic dehydrogenation of methanol to formaldehyde is an important process for the formation of anhydrous, molecular formaldehyde (FA). Sodium or sodium-containing salts were shown to catalyze the reaction, but their reaction m ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2021

Explaining the Advantageous Impact of Tertiary versus Secondary Nitrogen Center on the Activity of PNP-Pincer Co(I)-Complexes for Catalytic Hydrogenation of CO2

Shubhajit Das

Pincer ligated coordination complexes of base metals have shown remarkable catalytic activity for hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of CO2. The recently reported MeNCH2CH2(Pr-i(2))Co(I)PNP-pincer complex was shown to exhibit substantially higher catalytic ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Construction of Functional Superhydrophobic Biochars as Hydrogen Transfer Catalysts for Dehydrogenation of N-Heterocycles

Zhaowen Dong, Feng Zhou

To endow metal-free materials with the high catalytic activity that is typically featured by a metal-based catalyst is yet a constant pursuit in the field of catalytic chemistry. In this work, novel functional biochars (DCNs) were prepared from wheat straw ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Acceptorless dehydrogenation and hydrogenation of N- and O-containing compounds on Pd3Au1(111) facets

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Zhangjun Huang, Xinjiang Cui, Tao Wang

Catalytic dehydrogenation and hydrogenation of amines and alcohols are important in the synthesis of fine chemicals. Despite several efficient homogeneous catalysts having been identified, highly active heterogeneous catalysts remain elusive, although they ...

2020

Advances in heterogeneous catalysis for the synthesis of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers

Christophe Jean Baranowski

Our society is engaged in a major shift towards more sustainable industries. The required transition from fossils to renewable resources with low greenhouse gas emission is specifically challenging in the transportation sector where high thermal efficiency ...

EPFL2020

Selective synthesis of dimethyl ether on eco-friendly K10 montmorillonite clay

Jeremy Luterbacher, Oliver Kröcher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Christophe Jean Baranowski

The methanol dehydration reaction was studied over environmentally benign, easily accessible and inexpensive K10 montmorillonite clay used as the catalyst at a temperature range between 200–700 °C. Nearly 100% selectivity towards dimethyl ether (DME) at 80 ...

2018

Natural inspirations for metal–ligand cooperative catalysis

Xile Hu, Matthew Wodrich

In conventional homogeneous catalysis, supporting ligands act as spectators that do not interact directly with substrates. However, in metal–ligand cooperative catalysis, ligands are involved in facilitating reaction pathways that would be less favourable ...

2017

CO2 as hydrogen vector - Transition metal diamine catalysts for selective HCOOH dehydrogenation

Gabor Laurenczy, Cornel Fink

The homogeneous catalytic dehydrogenation of formic acid in aqueous solution provides an efficient in situ method for hydrogen production, under mild conditions, and at an adjustable rate. We synthesized a series of catalysts with the chemical formula [Cp* ...

2017

Adsorption Thermodynamics and Intrinsic Activation Parameters for Monomolecular Cracking of n-Alkanes on Bronsted Acid Sites in Zeolites

Berend Smit

Experimental' measurements of the rate coefficient (k(app)) and apparent enthalpies and entropies of activation (Delta H-app arid Delta S-app) for alkane cracking catalyzed by acidic zeolites can be used to characterize the effects of zeolite structure and ...

American Chemical Society2015

Chemoselective Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation of Aldehydes Catalyzed by Iron(II) PONOP Pincer Complexes

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Simona Mazza

Iron-catalyzed hydrogenation has drawn much attention, yet the scope and chemoselectivity of iron catalysis warrant further improvement. Here we report new iron pincer complexes as chemoselective hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation catalysts. Several ...

American Chemical Society2015

Homogeneous Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid: Progress Towards a Hydrogen-Based Economy

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy

One of the limiting factors to a hydrogen-based economy is associated with the problems storing hydrogen. Many different approaches are under evaluation and the optimum approach will not be the same for all applications, i.e., static, mobile, small and lar ...

2014

Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of the First Osmium beta-Diketiminato Complexes and Application in Catalysis

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Andrew Douglas Phillips, Dominique Schreiber

The strongly chelating anionic beta-diketiminate ligand has been employed to formulate complexes involving almost every metal of the periodic table; however, the heavier metals of the d block remain relatively unexplored. This paper describes the synthesis ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

BCl3-Mediated Ene Reaction of Sulfur Dioxide and Unfunctionalized Alkenes

Pierre Vogel, Dean Markovic, Chandra Mouleeswara Rao Volla

The first ene reactions of SO2 and unfunctionalized alkenes are reported. Calculations suggest that the endergonic ene reactions of SO2 with alkenes can be used to generate beta,gamma-unsaturated sulfinyl and sulfonyl compounds. Indeed, in the presence of ...

2010

Chelating NHC Ruthenium(II) Complexes as Robust Homogeneous Hydrogenation Catalysts

Gabor Laurenczy, Antonia Neels

A series of ruthenium(II) N-heterocyclic carbene chelate complexes were prepd. by using bidentate chelating alkene-carbene, thioether-carbene, carboxylate-carbene and bis-carbene ligands. Metalation of 1-R-3-X-imidazolium salts (1-3, R = Me, X = allyl, MeS ...

2009

Investigation of platinum-based nanoparticles on boron-doped diamond substrate for applications in electrocatalysis

Guillaume Siné

The search of new energy sources has motivated during the last few years numerous research projects due to environmental, economical and political reasons. One of the main subjects of these works is the development of fuel cells. Within this framework the ...

EPFL2006