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Chizallet C, Bouchy C, Larmier K, Pirngruber G. Molecular Views on Mechanisms of Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Reactions in Zeolites. Chem Rev 2023; 123:6107-6196. [PMID: 36996355 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/01/2023]
Abstract
The Brønsted acidity of proton-exchanged zeolites has historically led to the most impactful applications of these materials in heterogeneous catalysis, mainly in the fields of transformations of hydrocarbons and oxygenates. Unravelling the mechanisms at the atomic scale of these transformations has been the object of tremendous efforts in the last decades. Such investigations have extended our fundamental knowledge about the respective roles of acidity and confinement in the catalytic properties of proton exchanged zeolites. The emerging concepts are of general relevance at the crossroad of heterogeneous catalysis and molecular chemistry. In the present review, emphasis is given to molecular views on the mechanism of generic transformations catalyzed by Brønsted acid sites of zeolites, combining the information gained from advanced kinetic analysis, in situ, and operando spectroscopies, and quantum chemistry calculations. After reviewing the current knowledge on the nature of the Brønsted acid sites themselves, and the key parameters in catalysis by zeolites, a focus is made on reactions undergone by alkenes, alkanes, aromatic molecules, alcohols, and polyhydroxy molecules. Elementary events of C-C, C-H, and C-O bond breaking and formation are at the core of these reactions. Outlooks are given to take up the future challenges in the field, aiming at getting ever more accurate views on these mechanisms, and as the ultimate goal, to provide rational tools for the design of improved zeolite-based Brønsted acid catalysts.
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- Céline Chizallet
- IFP Energies nouvelles, Rond-Point de l'Echangeur de Solaize, BP 3, Solaize 69360, France
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- IFP Energies nouvelles, Rond-Point de l'Echangeur de Solaize, BP 3, Solaize 69360, France
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- IFP Energies nouvelles, Rond-Point de l'Echangeur de Solaize, BP 3, Solaize 69360, France
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- IFP Energies nouvelles, Rond-Point de l'Echangeur de Solaize, BP 3, Solaize 69360, France
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Liu Q, Pfriem N, Cheng G, Baráth E, Liu Y, Lercher JA. Maximum Impact of Ionic Strength on Acid-Catalyzed Reaction Rates Induced by a Zeolite Microporous Environment. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202208693. [PMID: 36317985 PMCID: PMC10107796 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202208693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The intracrystalline ionic environment in microporous zeolite can remarkably modify the excess chemical potential of adsorbed reactants and transition states, thereby influencing the catalytic turnover rates. However, a limit of the rate enhancement for aqueous-phase dehydration of alcohols appears to exist for zeolites with high ionic strength. The origin of such limitation has been hypothesized to be caused by the spatial constraints in the pores via, e.g., size exclusion effects. It is demonstrated here that the increase in turnover rate as well as the formation of a maximum and the rate drop are intrinsic consequences of the increasingly dense ionic environment in zeolite. The molecularly sized confines of zeolite create a unique ionic environment that monotonically favors the formation of alcohol-hydronium ion complexes in the micropores. The zeolite microporous environment determines the kinetics of catalytic steps and tailors the impact of ionic strength on catalytic rates.
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- Qiang Liu
- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research CenterTechnical University of MunichLichtenbergstrasse 485747GarchingGermany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research CenterTechnical University of MunichLichtenbergstrasse 485747GarchingGermany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research CenterTechnical University of MunichLichtenbergstrasse 485747GarchingGermany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research CenterTechnical University of MunichLichtenbergstrasse 485747GarchingGermany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research CenterTechnical University of MunichLichtenbergstrasse 485747GarchingGermany
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical ProcessesSchool of Chemistry and Molecular EngineeringEast China Normal University200062ShanghaiP. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research CenterTechnical University of MunichLichtenbergstrasse 485747GarchingGermany
- Institute for Integrated CatalysisPacific Northwest National LaboratoryP.O. Box 999RichlandWA 99352USA
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Gešvandtnerová M, Bučko T, Raybaud P, Chizallet C. Monomolecular mechanisms of isobutanol conversion to butenes catalyzed by acidic zeolites: alcohol isomerization as a key to the production of linear butenes. J Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2022.07.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Piccini G, Lee MS, Yuk SF, Zhang D, Collinge G, Kollias L, Nguyen MT, Glezakou VA, Rousseau R. Ab initio molecular dynamics with enhanced sampling in heterogeneous catalysis. Catal Sci Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d1cy01329g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Enhanced sampling ab initio simulations enable to study chemical phenomena in catalytic systems including thermal effects & anharmonicity, & collective dynamics describing enthalpic & entropic contributions, which can significantly impact on reaction free energy landscapes.
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- GiovanniMaria Piccini
- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
- Istituto Eulero, Università della Svizzera italiana, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Life Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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Pfriem N, Liu Y, Zahn F, Shi H, Haller GL, Lercher JA. Impact of the Local Concentration of Hydronium Ions at Tungstate Surfaces for Acid-Catalyzed Alcohol Dehydration. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:20133-20143. [PMID: 34813324 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c07203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Tungstate domains supported on ZrO2, Al2O3, TiO2, and activated carbon drastically influence the hydronium-ion-catalyzed aqueous-phase dehydration of alcohols. For all catalysts, the rate of cyclohexanol dehydration normalized to the concentration of Brønsted acid sites (turnover frequencies, TOFs) was lower for monotungstates than for polytungstates and larger crystallites of WO3. TOFs were constant when reaching or exceeding the monolayer coverage of tungstate, irrespective of the specific nature of surface structures that continuously evolve with the surface W loading. However, the TOFs with polytungstates and large WO3 crystallites depend strongly on the underlying support (e.g., WOx/C catalysts are 10-50-fold more active than WOx/Al2O3 catalysts). The electrical double layer (EDL) surrounding the negatively charged WOx domains contains hydrated hydronium ions, whose local concentrations change with the support. This varying concentration of interfacial hydronium ions ("local ionic strength") impacts the excess chemical potential of the reacting alcohols and induces the marked differences in the TOFs. Primary H/D kinetic isotope effects (∼3), together with the substantially positive entropy of activation (111-195 J mol-1 K-1), indicate that C-H(D) bond cleavage is involved in the kinetically relevant step of an E1-type mechanistic sequence, regardless of the support identity. The remarkable support dependence of the catalytic activity observed here for the aqueous-phase dehydration of cycloalkanols likely applies to a broad set of hydronium-ion-catalyzed organic reactions sensitive to ionic strength.
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- Niklas Pfriem
- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Garching 85747, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Garching 85747, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Garching 85747, Germany
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Garching 85747, Germany.,Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8682, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Garching 85747, Germany.,Institute for Integrated Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Milaković L, Hintermeier PH, Liu Y, Baráth E, Lercher JA. Influence of Intracrystalline Ionic Strength in MFI Zeolites on Aqueous Phase Dehydration of Methylcyclohexanols. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:24806-24810. [PMID: 34384139 PMCID: PMC9290721 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202107947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Revised: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The impact of the concentration of hydrated hydronium ions and in turn of the local ionic strength in MFI zeolites has been investigated for the aqueous phase dehydration of 4‐methylcyclohexanol (E1 mechanism) and cis‐2‐methylcyclohexanol (E2 mechanism). The E2 pathway with the latter alcohol led to a 2.5‐fold higher activity. The catalytic activity normalized to the hydronium ions (turnover frequency, TOF) passed through a pronounced maximum, which is attributed to the increasing excess chemical potential of the alcohols in the pores, increasing in parallel with the ionic strength and the additional work caused by repulsive interactions and charge separation induced by the bulky alcohols. While the maximum in rate observed is invariant with the mechanism or substitution, the reaction pathway is influencing the activation parameters differently.
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- Lara Milaković
- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraβe 4, 85748, Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraβe 4, 85748, Garching, Germany.,Institute for Integrated Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraβe 4, 85748, Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraβe 4, 85748, Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraβe 4, 85748, Garching, Germany.,Institute for Integrated Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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Milaković L, Hintermeier PH, Liu Y, Baráth E, Lercher JA. Influence of Intracrystalline Ionic Strength in MFI Zeolites on Aqueous Phase Dehydration of Methylcyclohexanols. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202107947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Lara Milaković
- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center Technische Universität München Lichtenbergstraβe 4 85748 Garching Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center Technische Universität München Lichtenbergstraβe 4 85748 Garching Germany
- Institute for Integrated Catalysis Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 902 Battelle Boulevard Richland WA 99352 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center Technische Universität München Lichtenbergstraβe 4 85748 Garching Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center Technische Universität München Lichtenbergstraβe 4 85748 Garching Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center Technische Universität München Lichtenbergstraβe 4 85748 Garching Germany
- Institute for Integrated Catalysis Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 902 Battelle Boulevard Richland WA 99352 USA
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Bao Q, Zhang W, Mei D. Theoretical characterization of zeolite encapsulated platinum clusters in the presence of water molecules. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:23360-23371. [PMID: 34636836 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03766h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Zeolite encapsulated metal clusters have shown high catalytic activity and superior stability due to confinement effects, the synergy between acidic and metal active sites, and strong metal-zeolite interactions. In the present work, density functional theory calculations were employed to study the stability of encapsulated Ptn (n = 1-6) clusters in the zeolitic frameworks including Silicalite-1 and H-MFI. It has been found that the metal-zeolite interaction becomes stronger with the increasing Ptn cluster size for both zeolitic frameworks. The encapsulated Ptn clusters in the vicinity of the Brønsted acid site (BAS) of H-MFI form more stable PtnHx (x = 1, 2) clusters. The presence of water molecules around the encapsulated Pt6 cluster further enhances its stability, while the oxidation states of the encapsulated Ptn cluster are largely affected by the BAS site and the surrounding water molecules. As the water concentration increases, water dissociation becomes more facile on the Pt6@Silicalite-1 cluster while an opposite trend is found over the Pt6H2@H-MFI cluster. The proton of the BAS site can be transferred to the encapsulated Pt6 cluster via a hydronium cluster H+(H2O)n, leading to the formation of the Pt6H2@H-MFI cluster.
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- Qianqian Bao
- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China. .,School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China. .,School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China. .,School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China.,School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China
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Liu P, Yan Z, Mei D. Insights into protonation for cyclohexanol/water mixtures at the zeolitic Brønsted acid site. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:10395-10401. [PMID: 33889887 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06523d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Proton transfer from Brønsted acid sites (BASs) to alcohol molecules ignites the acid-catalyzed alcohol dehydration reactions. For aqueous phase dehydration reactions in zeolites, the coexisting water molecules around BASs in the zeolite pores significantly affect the alcohol dehydration activity. In the present work, proton transfer processes among the BASs of H-BEA zeolites, the adsorbed cyclohexanol and surrounding water clusters with different sizes up to 8 water molecules were investigated using ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations combined with the multiple-walker well-tempered metadynamics algorithm. The plausible proton locations and proton transfer processes were characterized using two/three-dimensional free energy landscapes. The strong proton affinity makes the protonated cyclohexanol stable species until a water trimer is formed. The proton either is shared between protonated cyclohexanol and the water trimer or remains with the water trimer (H7O3+). With a further increase in water concentrations, the proton prefers to remain with the water clusters.
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- Peng Liu
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, P. R. China. and School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, P. R. China
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Bates JS, Gounder R. Kinetic effects of molecular clustering and solvation by extended networks in zeolite acid catalysis. Chem Sci 2021; 12:4699-4708. [PMID: 34168752 PMCID: PMC8179612 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc00151e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Reactions catalyzed within porous inorganic and organic materials and at electrochemical interfaces commonly occur at high coverage and in condensed media, causing turnover rates to depend strongly on interfacial structure and composition, collectively referred to as "solvent effects". Transition state theory treatments define how solvation phenomena enter kinetic rate expressions, and identify two distinct types of solvent effects that originate from molecular clustering and from the solvation of such clusters by extended solvent networks. We review examples from the recent literature that investigate reactions within microporous zeolite catalysts to illustrate these concepts, and provide a critical appraisal of open questions in the field where future research can aid in developing new chemistry and catalyst design principles.
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- Jason S Bates
- Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette IN 47907 USA
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- Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette IN 47907 USA
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Zhang W, Cheng G, Haller GL, Liu Y, Lercher JA. Rate Enhancement of Acid-Catalyzed Alcohol Dehydration by Supramolecular Organic Capsules. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c03625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Wei Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Institute for Integrated Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Milakovic L, Hintermeier PH, Liu Q, Shi H, Liu Y, Baráth E, Lercher JA. Towards understanding and predicting the hydronium ion catalyzed dehydration of cyclic-primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols. J Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2020.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Allen MC, Hoffman AJ, Liu TW, Webber MS, Hibbitts D, Schwartz TJ. Highly Selective Cross-Etherification of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural with Ethanol. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Meredith C. Allen
- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, United States
- Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32612, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32612, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32612, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, United States
- Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, United States
- Frontier Institute for Research in Sensor Technology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, United States
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Varghese JJ, Mushrif SH. Origins of complex solvent effects on chemical reactivity and computational tools to investigate them: a review. REACT CHEM ENG 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c8re00226f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Origins of solvent-induced enhancement in catalytic reactivity and product selectivity are discussed with computational methods to study them.
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- Jithin John Varghese
- Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) Ltd
- Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE)
- Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- University of Alberta
- Edmonton
- Canada
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Varghese JJ, Cao L, Robertson C, Yang Y, Gladden LF, Lapkin AA, Mushrif SH. Synergistic Contribution of the Acidic Metal Oxide–Metal Couple and Solvent Environment in the Selective Hydrogenolysis of Glycerol: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study Using ReOx–Ir as the Catalyst. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b03079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jithin John Varghese
- Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) Ltd., Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), CREATE Tower 1, CREATE Way, Singapore 138602
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- Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) Ltd., Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), CREATE Tower 1, CREATE Way, Singapore 138602
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, United Kingdom
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- Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) Ltd., Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), CREATE Tower 1, CREATE Way, Singapore 138602
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, United Kingdom
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- Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) Ltd., Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), CREATE Tower 1, CREATE Way, Singapore 138602
- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637459
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China 210028
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- Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) Ltd., Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), CREATE Tower 1, CREATE Way, Singapore 138602
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, United Kingdom
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- Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) Ltd., Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), CREATE Tower 1, CREATE Way, Singapore 138602
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, United Kingdom
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- Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) Ltd., Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), CREATE Tower 1, CREATE Way, Singapore 138602
- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637459
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, 9211-116 Street Northwest, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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