Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid Catalyzed by a Ruthenium Complex with an N,N′-Diimine Ligand
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Guan, Chao
Zhang, Dandan
Pan, Yupeng
Iguchi, Masayuki
Ajitha, Manjaly John
Hu, Jinsong
Li, Huaifeng

Yao, Changguang
Huang, Mei-Hui

Min, Shixiong

Zheng, Junrong
Himeda, Yuichiro
Kawanami, Hajime
Huang, Kuo-Wei

KAUST Department
Chemical Science ProgramHomogeneous Catalysis Laboratory (HCL)
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2016-12-16Online Publication Date
2016-12-16Print Publication Date
2017-01-03Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622782
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We report a ruthenium complex containing an N,N′-diimine ligand for the selective decomposition of formic acid to H and CO in water in the absence of any organic additives. A turnover frequency of 12000 h and a turnover number of 350 000 at 90 °C were achieved in the HCOOH/HCOONa aqueous solution. Efficient production of high-pressure H and CO (24.0 MPa (3480 psi)) was achieved through the decomposition of formic acid with no formation of CO. Mechanistic studies by NMR and DFT calculations indicate that there may be two competitive pathways for the key hydride transfer rate-determining step in the catalytic process.Citation
Guan C, Zhang D-D, Pan Y, Iguchi M, Ajitha MJ, et al. (2017) Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid Catalyzed by a Ruthenium Complex with an N,N′-Diimine Ligand. Inorganic Chemistry 56: 438–445. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02334.Sponsors
This work was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). We thank Carolyn E. Unck for assistance with the manuscript preparation.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Journal
Inorganic ChemistryAdditional Links
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02334Relations
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Guan, C., Zhang, D.-D., Pan, Y., Iguchi, M., Ajitha, M. J., Hu, J., … Huang, K.-W. (2017). CCDC 1530235: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination [Data set]. Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1ncbfs. DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1ncbfs HANDLE: 10754/624600
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10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02334