A DFT study unveils the secret of how H2 is activated in the N-formylation of amines with CO2 and H2 catalyzed by Ru(ii) pincer complexes in the absence of exogenous additives

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (89) ◽  
pp. 12148-12151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Lu ◽  
Zheyuan Liu ◽  
Jiandong Guo ◽  
Shuanglin Qu ◽  
Ruihua Zhao ◽  
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DFT computations unraveled a new H2 activation mechanism used by Ru(ii) pincer complexes to catalyze the N-formylation of amines with CO2 and H2 in the absence of external additives.

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (42) ◽  
pp. 16083-16090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Animesh Chowdhury ◽  
Santu Biswas ◽  
Anup Pramanik ◽  
Pranab Sarkar

Mechanistic details have been investigated for the catalytic hydrogenation of esters to alcohols by Co(ii) pincer complexes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 1196-1198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Kamitani ◽  
Haruki Kusaka ◽  
Hidetaka Yuge

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 8440-8448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rami Suleiman ◽  
Victor Polo ◽  
Bassam El Ali
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Two mechanisms, hydride and alkoxy, were proposed for the alkoxycarbonylation of α,β-unsaturated amides. These are studied with the use of DFT computations.


2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (58) ◽  
pp. 8196-8198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe E. Pitsch ◽  
Xiaotai Wang

DFT computations reveal different reaction mechanisms for the oxidative addition of C(sp2)–F and C(sp3)–F bonds to the Al(i) complexes: a concerted mechanism for C(sp2)–F and a stepwise mechanism for C(sp3)–F involving fluoride transfer and the formation and recombination of an ion pair.


2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (21) ◽  
pp. 9813-9825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun-Ling Zhu ◽  
Yong Zhang ◽  
Chong Liu ◽  
An-Min Zheng ◽  
Wei Wang

RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (59) ◽  
pp. 36090-36100
Author(s):  
Jing Lu ◽  
Bo Zhu ◽  
Shigeyoshi Sakaki

In this theoretical study by DFT computations, characteristic features of the Ru13@Pt42 core–shell particle in O2 activation are clearly discussed in comparison with Pt55.


2017 ◽  
Vol 410 ◽  
pp. 126-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dandan Wu ◽  
Yingbo Mao ◽  
Jiushuai Deng ◽  
Shuming Wen

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