Selective
hydrogenation of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes
to unsaturated alcohols is important for the synthesis of fine chemicals,
yet very challenging. Herein, we reported a metal-free CeO2 nanorods (r-CeO2) catalyst for gas-phase transformation
of crotonaldehyde to crotyl alcohol with the highest selectivity of
93.2% at 323 K. Compared to CeO2 nanocubes and nanopolydra,
r-CeO2 shows a much higher crotyl alcohol production rate,
comparable turnover frequency to those of noble-metal-based catalysts,
and very high crotyl alcohol selectivity. This can be associated with
a relatively high density of surface oxygen vacancies on r-CeO2, which constructs the solid frustrated Lewis pair sites with
enhanced heterolytic H2 dissociation and preferred crotonaldehyde
adsorption via the CO bond. However, a further reduction of
r-CeO2 by H2 was observed to be unfavorable
with regard to both catalytic activity and selectivity, because of
the emergence of crotonaldehyde adsorption via the CC bond.
These findings provide a potential approach to fabricate high-performance
and low-cost catalysts for selective hydrogenation of α,β-unsaturated
aldehydes to unsaturated alcohols using bare CeO2 with
a rigid surface structure design.
Abstract:The asymmetric synthesis of functionalized 2-amino-2-chromene derivatives with high enantioselectivities via one-pot tandem reactions of functionalized a,b-unsaturated ketones with malononitrile catalyzed by 9-amino-9-deoxyepiquinine (1a) in combination with (R)-1,1'-binaphth-2,2'-diyl hydrogen phosphate (1c) is reported for the first time.
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