Molecular Insight into Pt-Catalyzed Chemoselective Hydrogenation of an Aromatic Ketone by In Situ Modulation–Excitation IR Spectroscopy

ACS Catalysis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 2007-2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengmeng Chen ◽  
Nobutaka Maeda ◽  
Alfons Baiker ◽  
Jun Huang
2013 ◽  
Vol 683 ◽  
pp. 271-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Meng Chen ◽  
Nobutaka Maeda ◽  
Alfons Baiker ◽  
Jun Huang

Chemoselective hydrogenation of aromatic ketones plays an important role in producing fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. One of the simplest model reactions is acetophenone (AP) hydrogenation to corresponding alcohol 1-phenylethanol (PE). We studied the role of dominant product 1-phenylethanol (PE) on a Pt/Al2O3 catalyst. In situ attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy (ATR-IR) in combination with modulation excitation spectroscopy (MES) and phase sensitive detection (PSD) revealed that PE was more strongly adsorbed on Al2O3 than on Pt. PE was hardly hydrogenated to 1-cyclohexylethanol (CE) on the support. CO from AP decomposition didn’t inhibit PE adsorption on the support. The strong adsorption and accumulation of PE on the support allows active sites on Pt always accessible to AP, achieving efficient Pt-catalyzed catalysis.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemyslaw Rzepka ◽  
Zoltán Bacsik ◽  
Andrew J. Pell ◽  
Niklas Hedin ◽  
Aleksander Jaworski

Formation of CO<sub>3</sub><sup>2-</sup> and HCO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup> species without participation of the framework oxygen atoms upon chemisorption of CO<sub>2</sub> in zeolite |Na<sub>12</sub>|-A is revealed. The transfer of O and H atoms is very likely to have proceeded via the involvement of residual H<sub>2</sub>O or acid groups. A combined study by solid-state <sup>13</sup>C MAS NMR, quantum chemical calculations, and <i>in situ</i> IR spectroscopy showed that the chemisorption mainly occurred by the formation of HCO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup>. However, at a low surface coverage of physisorbed and acidic CO<sub>2</sub>, a significant fraction of the HCO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup> was deprotonated and transformed into CO<sub>3</sub><sup>2-</sup>. We expect that similar chemisorption of CO<sub>2</sub> would occur for low-silica zeolites and other basic silicates of interest for the capture of CO<sub>2</sub> from gas mixtures.


1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 2219-2223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Jakoubková ◽  
Martin Čapka

Kinetics of homogenous hydrogenation of 1-heptene catalysed by rhodium(I) complexes prepared in situ from μ,μ'-dichloro-bis(cyclooctenerhodium) and phosphines of the type RP(C6H5)2 (R = -CH3, -(CH2)nSi(CH3)3; n = 1-4) have been studied. The substitution of the ligands by the trimethylsilyl group was found to increase significantly the catalytic activity of the complexes. The results are discussed in relation to the electron density on the phosphorus atom determined by 31P NMR spectroscopy and to its proton acceptor ability determined by IR spectroscopy.


Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 738
Author(s):  
Nicola Rossi ◽  
Mario Bačić ◽  
Meho Saša Kovačević ◽  
Lovorka Librić

The design code Eurocode 7 relies on semi-probabilistic calculation procedures, through utilization of the soil parameters obtained by in situ and laboratory tests, or by the means of transformation models. To reach a prescribed safety margin, the inherent soil parameter variability is accounted for through the application of partial factors to either soil parameters directly or to the resistance. However, considering several sources of geotechnical uncertainty, including the inherent soil variability, measurement error and transformation uncertainty, full probabilistic analyses should be implemented to directly consider the site-specific variability. This paper presents the procedure of developing fragility curves for levee slope stability and piping as failure mechanisms that lead to larger breaches, where a direct influence of the flood event intensity on the probability of failure is calculated. A range of fragility curve sets is presented, considering the variability of levee material properties and varying durations of the flood event, thus providing crucial insight into the vulnerability of the levee exposed to rising water levels. The procedure is applied to the River Drava levee, a site which has shown a continuous trend of increased water levels in recent years.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 104889
Author(s):  
Wyllamanney da S. Pereira ◽  
Fabrício B. Destro ◽  
Cipriano B. Gozzo ◽  
Edson R. Leite ◽  
Júlio C. Sczancoski

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 2055-2064
Author(s):  
Saheli Biswas ◽  
Aniruddha P. Kulkarni ◽  
Daniel Fini ◽  
Sarbjit Giddey ◽  
Sankar Bhattacharya

In situ synthesis of methane in a single-temperature zone SOEC in the absence of any methanation catalyst is a completely electrochemical phenomenon governed by the thermodynamic equilibrium of various reactions.


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