Formation of a New, Strongly Basic Nitrogen Anion by Metal Oxide Modification

Autor: Akira Nakayama, Masazumi Tamura, Yoshinao Nakagawa, Keiichi Tomishige, Jun-ya Hasegawa, Ryota Kishi
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139:11857-11867
ISSN: 1520-5126
0002-7863
Popis: Development of new hybrid materials having unique and unprecedented catalytic properties is a challenge for chemists, and heterogeneous–homogeneous hybrid catalysts have attracted much attention because of the preferable and exceptional properties that are highly expected to result from combination of the components. Base catalysts are widely used in organic synthesis as key materials, and a new class of base catalysts has made a large impact from academic and industrial viewpoints. Here, a principle for creating a new strong base by hybridization of homogeneous and heterogeneous components is presented. It is based on the modification of organic compounds with metal oxides by using the acid–base property of metal oxides. Based on kinetic and DFT studies, combination of CeO2 and 2-cyanopyridine drastically enhanced the basicity of 2-cyanopyridine by a factor of about 109 (∼9 by pKa (in CH3CN)), and the pKa was estimated to be ∼21, which locates it in the superbase category. 2-Cyanopyridine and CeO2 formed...
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