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Enhancing Effect of Residual Capping Agents in Heterogeneous Enantioselective Hydrogenation of α-keto Esters over Polymer-Capped Pt/Al2O3
Chung, Iljun,Song, Byeongju,Kim, Jeongmyeong,Yun, Yongju
, p. 31 - 42 (2021/01/11)
Heterogeneous enantioselective catalysis is considered a promising strategy for the large-scale production of enantiopure chemicals. In this work, polymer-capped Pt nanocatalysts having a uniform size were synthesized using poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) and poly(vinyl alcohol) and supported on γ-Al2O3. After a facile heat treatment process, their catalytic performance for enantioselective hydrogenation of α-keto esters, a structure-sensitive reaction, was investigated. The presence of residual capping agents on the Pt surface often perturbs the adsorption of reacting species and reduces performance in structure-sensitive reactions. However, the 1 wt % PVP-Pt/Al2O3 catalyst exhibited an enhancement in both activity and enantioselectivity compared to a reference Pt/Al2O3 catalyst prepared by wet impregnation. Under optimized reaction conditions, the cinchonidine-modified PVP-Pt/Al2O3 gave an enantiomeric excess of 95% for the enantioselective hydrogenation of methyl pyruvate despite the low Pt loading. We demonstrate that depending on the type of polymers, the residual capping agents can lead to site-selective blockage of the Pt surface, that is, defects or terraces. Quantitative and qualitative analyses also show that the noticeable improvement in enantioselectivity is attributed to the stable adsorption of chiral modifiers on selectively exposed Pt terrace sites. The findings of this work provide a promising strategy to prepare metal nanoparticles having selectively exposed sites and offer insights into the enhancing effect of residual capping agents on the catalytic properties in structure-sensitive reactions.
Use of lithium aryloxides as promoters for preparation of α-hydroxy acid esters
Petrus, Rafa?,Fa?at, Patryk,Sobota, Piotr
supporting information, p. 866 - 876 (2020/01/30)
In this work, a hexanuclear lithium compound, [Li6(MesalO)6] (1), supported by a chelating ligand, namely methyl salicylato (MesalOH), was used as a precursor for preparation of the monomeric lithium aryloxides [Li(MesalO)(MesalOH)] (2) and [Li(MesalO)(MeOH)2] (3) via reactions with MesalOH or MeOH. These aryloxides were characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, and spectroscopic and other analytical methods. The diffusion-ordered 1H NMR measurements revealed the retention of solid-state structures of 1 and 2 in THF-d8 solution. Experimental data obtained for 3 showed its decomposition into compound 1 and free MeOH. Compound 1 generated from 3 was also used as a catalyst for the alcoholysis of l-lactide (l-LA) and glycolide (GA) for the preparation of α-hydroxy acid esters. We established that during methanolysis in the presence of 1, l-LA was selectively transformed into methyl (S,S)-O-lactyllactate (MeL2), and GA was converted to methyl glycolate (MeG1) and oligoglycolate esters MeGn (n = 2, 3, and 4).
Molecular Insights into the Ligand-Reactant Interactions of Pt Nanoparticles Functionalized with α-Amino Acids as Asymmetric Catalysts for β-Keto Esters
?ulce, Anda,Mitschke, Nico,Azov, Vladimir,Kunz, Sebastian
, p. 2732 - 2742 (2019/05/15)
The asymmetric hydrogenation of ?-keto esters over α-amino acid-functionalized Pt nanoparticles was explored in order to expand our understanding of ligand-reactant interactions underlying the chiral induction. A comprehensive investigation aimed at the quantification of the nonlinear effects demonstrated that for most of the ligands and reactants enantiodifferentiation is determined by 1 : 1 ligand-reactant interaction. However, attachment of phenyl substituents to the ligands or reactants likely involves the formation of more intricate intermediate complexes. We have shown that the asymmetric bias is sensitive to even small changes in the geometry of the ligand. Additionally, we have found that alkali metal cations, which balance the negative charge of the ligand's carboxyl group and originate from the metal hydroxide used for ligand functionalization, play a key role in the process of chiral induction. As the nature of the cation can be varied by simply changing the metal hydroxide used during functionalization, this finding opens an additional possibility to control the stereoselectivity by tuning the ligand-reactant interaction.