Mechanistic study of C–H bond activation by O2on negatively charged Au clusters: α,β-dehydrogenation of 1-methyl-4-piperidone by supported Au catalystsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Surface structure of OMS-2, adsorption structures of 1-methyl-4-piperidone and O2on the Au20models, C–Hβbond activation of 1-methyl-4-piperidone in the first C–H bond cleavage step, comparison of calculation settings, definition of the relative potential energies for the second C–H bond cleavage pathways, optimized structures for C–Hαbond activation by the adsorbed O and OH species, Cartesian coordinates of optimized structures throughout the catalytic cycle, and results of control experiments for the α,β-dehydrogenation of 1-methyl-4-piperidone by the Au/OMS-2, Au/Al2O3, and Au/C catalysts. See DOI: 10.1039/d1cy00178g

Autor: Miyazaki, Ray, Jin, Xiongjie, Yoshii, Daichi, Yatabe, Takafumi, Yabe, Tomohiro, Mizuno, Noritaka, Yamaguchi, Kazuya, Hasegawa, Jun-ya
Zdroj: Catalysis Science & Technology; 2021, Vol. 11 Issue: 10 p3333-3346, 14p
Abstrakt: Au nanoparticles supported on the manganese oxide octahedral molecular sieve OMS-2 can efficiently catalyze α,β-dehydrogenation of β-N-substituted saturated ketones using O2as the terminal oxidant. However, despite the utility of this reaction, the active sites and the reaction mechanism remain unclear. Here, the reaction mechanism for the Au/OMS-2-catalyzed aerobic α,β-dehydrogenation of 1-methyl-4-piperidone was investigated mainly by using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. From control experiments under various reaction conditions, we found that O2plays an important role in the α,β-dehydrogenation over Au nanoparticles. Thus, we attempted to clarify the mechanism for the α,β-dehydrogenation of 1-methyl-4-piperidone on Au nanoparticle catalysts by DFT calculations using Au cluster models. The reaction was found to cleave the C–Hαand C–Hβbonds in that order. An O2molecule adsorbed on the negatively charged Au cluster caused by charge transfer from OMS-2 was found to be sufficiently activated to abstract the Hαatom in the 1-methyl-4-piperidone substrate. This indirect Hαabstraction by the activated O2was energetically more favorable than direct Hαabstraction by the Au cluster. The subsequent Hβabstraction was found to be promoted by adsorbed oxygen species (i.e., HOO, OH, and O) formed after the Hαabstraction. The reaction mechanism proposed in this study provides general insight into the aerobic C–H bond activation by supported Au catalysts.
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