Discovery of Highly Selective Alkyne Semihydrogenation Catalysts Based on First‐Row Transition‐Metallated Porous Organic Polymers1. Issue 45 (12th September 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tanabe, Kristine K.; Ferrandon, Magali S.; Siladke, Nathan A.; Kraft, Steven J.; Zhang, Guanghui; Niklas, Jens; Poluektov, Oleg G.; Lopykinski, Susan J.; Bunel, Emilio E.; Krause, Theodore R.; Miller, Jeffrey T.; Hock, Adam S.; Nguyen, SonBinh T.
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 53:Issue 45(2014)
• Page Start: 12055
• Page End: 12058
• Publication Date: 2014-09-12
• Subjects: Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201405080
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Five different first‐row transition metal precursors (V^III, Cr^III, Mn^II, Co^II, Ni^II) were successfully incorporated into a catechol porous organic polymer (POP) and characterized using ATR‐IR and XAS analysis. The resulting metallated POPs were then evaluated for catalytic alkyne hydrogenation using high‐throughput screening techniques. All POPs were unexpectedly found to be active and selective catalysts for alkyne semihydrogenation. Three of the metallated POPs (V, Cr, Mn) are the first of their kind to be active single‐site hydrogenation catalysts. These results highlight the advantages of using a POP platform to develop new catalysts which are otherwise difficult to achieve through traditional heterogeneous and homogeneous routes.</p> </abstract>