水热催化制备绿色柴油工艺中催化剂的失活与再生

近年来,水热催化制备绿色柴油的工艺广受关注,非均相催化剂用于该工艺可以提高绿色柴油的产率和选择性,但催化剂使用过程中常存在失活和再生困难等问题。本文首先介绍了水热催化工艺中常用的催化剂,随后阐述了该工艺中非均相催化剂的失活机理;分别讨论了负载金属和载体对催化剂活性的影响。负载金属的浸出和烧结是引起催化剂失活的重要原因,载体自身不稳定是催化剂失活的另一个重要原因。然后,总结了水热催化工艺中失活催化剂的再生方法,主要包括煅烧和洗涤。最后,对水热催化制备绿色柴油工艺提出了建议,即开发更优质的催化剂、探求更高效的再生方法和选择更适宜的反应条件等。     

Liquid-phase catalytic oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids

Liquid-phase catalytic oxidation of oleic acid with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of various transition metal/metal oxide catalysts was studied in a batch autoclave reactor. Azelaic and pelargonic acids are the major reaction products. Tungsten and tantalum and their oxides in supported and unsupported forms were used as catalysts. Alumina pellets and Kieselguhr powder were used as supports for the catalysts. Tungsten, tantalum, molybdenum, zirconium, and niobium were also examined as catalysts. Tertiary butanol was used as solvent. Experimental results concluded that tungsten and tungstic oxide are more suitable catalysts in terms of their activity and selectivity. The rate of reaction observed in the case of supported catalysts appears to be comparable or superior to that of unsupported catalysts. In pure form, tungsten, tantalum, and molybdenum showed strong catalytic activity in the oxidation reaction; however, except for tantalum the other two were determined to be economically unfeasible. Zirconium and niobium showed very little catalytic activity. Based on the experimental observations, tungstic oxide supported on silica is the most suitable catalyst for the oxidation of oleic acid with 85% of the starting oleic acid converted to the oxidation products in 60 min of reaction with high selectivity for azelaic acid.     

铂催化硅氢加成反应研究进展

硅氢加成反应是合成有机硅材料最重要的途径之一,铂催化剂作为其应用最广的催化剂,具有重要的意义。本文首先介绍了硅氢加成反应机理的研究现状;分析了聚合物长链段铂配合物、含多个铂原子铂簇化合物及N-杂环卡宾铂配合物均相铂催化剂的研究进展,致力于改善均相催化剂催化选择性差、催化活性难以控制等缺点;分别阐述了不同铂催化剂载体如无机二氧化硅、炭载体、金属氧化物、有机高分子、固载液等作为铂催化剂载体的优点,负载铂催化剂具有可回收、产物选择性好的优点,有效解决了工业上铂损失的问题;最后对铂催化硅氢加成反应的发展趋势进行了展望分析,铂负载能力的提高、铂负载催化剂的分离、硅氢加成反应的原理、催化范围的扩大等均是今后研究的重要方向。     

Precision control of radical polymerization via transition metal catalysis: from dormant species to designed catalysts for precision functional polymers

In the past decade, living radical polymerization has provided one of the most versatile methods to precisely construct designed polymer architectures with complexity and polar functionality. This process takes advantage of carbon-radical intermediates, which tolerate a variety of functional groups in monomers and reaction media. "Transition metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization", one of these living systems, has widely been employed for precision polymer synthesis. Not only can this process produce well-defined functional polymers, but it can also generate hybrids or conjugates with other (often biological) materials. Metal-catalyzed systems retain the advantages of conventional radical polymerization but distinguish themselves through a catalytic reversible halogen exchange equilibrium: the growing radical exists alongside a dormant speciesa covalent precursor capped with a terminal halogen from an initiator. The catalyst dictates the selectivity, exchange rate, and control over the polymerization. This Account provides an updated overview of our group's efforts in transition metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization with specific emphasis on the design of metal catalysts and the resulting precision polymer syntheses. With increasing use of the living processes as convenient tools for materials synthesis, researchers are currently seeking more active and versatile metal catalysts that are tolerant to functional groups. Such catalysts would enable a wider range of applications and target products, would have low metal content, could be readily removed from products, and would allow recycling. Since we first developed the "transition metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization" with RuCl 2(PPh 3) 3, FeCl 2(PPh 3) 2, and NiBr 2(PPh 3) 2, we have strived to systematically design metal catalysts to meet these new demands. For example, we have enhanced catalytic activity and control through several modifications: electron-donating or resonance-enhancing groups, moderate bulkiness, heterochelation via a ligand, and halogen-donor additives. For some catalysts, the use of amphiphilic and polymeric ligands allow efficient recovery of catalysts and convenient use in aqueous media. We have also used ligand design (phosphines) and other methods to improve the thermal stability of iron- and nickel-based catalysts and their tolerance to functional groups.     

Design strategies for the molecular level synthesis of supported catalysts

Supported catalysts, metal or oxide catalytic centers constructed on an underlying solid phase, are making an increasingly important contribution to heterogeneous catalysis. For example, in industry, supported catalysts are employed in selective oxidation, selective reduction, and polymerization reactions. Supported structures increase the thermal stability, dispersion, and surface area of the catalyst relative to the neat catalytic material. However, structural and mechanistic characterization of these catalysts presents a formidable challenge because traditional preparations typically afford complex mixtures of structures whose individual components cannot be isolated. As a result, the characterization of supported catalysts requires a combination of advanced spectroscopies for their characterization, unlike homogeneous catalysts, which have relatively uniform structures and can often be characterized using standard methods. Moreover, these advanced spectroscopic techniques only provide ensemble averages and therefore do not isolate the catalytic function of individual components within the mixture. New synthetic approaches are required to more controllably tailor supported catalyst structures. In this Account, we review advances in supported catalyst synthesis and characterization developed in our laboratories at Northwestern University. We first present an overview of traditional synthetic methods with a focus on supported vanadium oxide catalysts. We next describe approaches for the design and synthesis of supported polymerization and hydrogenation catalysts, using anchoring techniques which provide molecular catalyst structures with exceptional activity and high percentages of catalytically significant sites. We then highlight similar approaches for preparing supported metal oxide catalysts using atomic layer deposition and organometallic grafting. Throughout this Account, we describe the use of incisive spectroscopic techniques, including high-resolution solid state NMR, UV-visible diffuse reflectance (DRS), UV-Raman, and X-ray absorption spectroscopies to characterize supported catalysts. We demonstrate that it is possible to tailor and isolate defined surface species using a molecularly oriented approach. We anticipate that advances in catalyst design and synthesis will lead to a better understanding of catalyst structure and function and, thus, to advances in existing catalytic processes and the development of new technologies.     

载体型茂金属催化剂

对载体型茂金属催化剂研究进展进行了评述,讨论了茂金属催化剂载体化方法,载体和茂金属载体化对催化剂性能和聚合物性质的影响以及各种载体型茂金属催化剂对烯烃聚合的催化行为,还简要介绍了生产双峰分子量分布聚合物的双金属催化剂。     

甘油催化氧化合成二羟基丙酮研究进展

对甘油选择性催化氧化转化为二羟基丙酮的研究进行综述,介绍了负载型催化剂在不同条件下对产物选择性和反应物转化率的影响,以及催化剂的作用机理。阐述了甘油催化氧化存在的问题以及发展前景。从均相到非均相催化,从单金属到双金属负载催化,从金属到非金属催化,甘油氧化反应的研究不断在完善。研究发现用Bi改性的Pt负载催化剂可以有效地将甘油选择性催化氧化为二羟基丙酮,在最优条件下,可获得较高的甘油转化率和二羟基丙酮选择性,但催化剂稳定性较差,有待进一步提高。杂多酸催化剂以及非金属催化剂也存在稳定性差的问题。指出改善催化剂的稳定性将是未来研究的主要方向。     

CATALYST PRODUCT SEPARATION TECHNIQUES IN HECK REACTION

The Heck reaction finds several applications in industry because it is one of the effective tools for the formation of a new C─C bond. In addition to the catalytic activity and selectivity, catalyst-product separation strategies are very important for the industrial application. There are various methods of interest ranging from conventional heterogeneous catalysts to heterogenization of homogeneous catalysts. The heterogeneous catalysts are classified into supported metal catalysts, zeolite-encapsulated catalysts, colloids-nanoparticles, and intercalated metal compounds. The homogeneous metal complexes catalysts are heterogenized using modified silica catalysts, polymer-supported catalysts, biphasic catalysts, supported liquid-phase catalysts, nonionic liquids solvents, perfluorinated solvents, and reusable homogeneous complexes. In general, heterogeneous catalysts are effective and stable at higher temperatures, which may be important for the activation of less reactive but less expensive chloroaryls substrates. However, the heterogeneous catalysts have a major drawback of poor selectivity toward Heck coupling products. The heterogenized metal complexes catalysts operate under relatively mild conditions as compared with heterogeneous catalysts, and so they can be applied to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. Catalysis using supercritical solvents with catalyst separation techniques is promising for the development of green chemistry processes. Although the concepts described in this article have been reviewed mainly for Heck reactions, they should be applicable to a wide range of other chemical transformations (hydrogenation, carbonylation, hydroformylation, and so on) that, currently, are homogeneously catalyzed reactions.     

聚苯乙烯支载催化剂的研究进展

聚苯乙烯支载催化剂结合了均相催化和多相催化的优点,既保持了低温高活性和高选择性,又克服了小分子催化剂腐蚀和污染等缺点,且易分离并能重复利用。综述了聚苯乙烯支载酸性催化剂、支载有机金属配合物和支载相转移催化剂等的研究进展,认为对载体聚苯乙烯树脂和支载物进行各种改性处理以及对支载方法改进等是改善树脂支载催化剂催化性能和扩大其应用范围的重要途径。     

Polymers as Catalysts

Polymers have been widely used as catalysts or catalyst supports and the various applications can be categorised conveniently into four groups (a) catalysis by soluble linear polymers, (b) catalysis by ion exchange resins, (c) polymer-supported ‘homogeneous’ metal complex catalysts and (d) polymer-supported phase transfer catalysts. A brief review of each of these is given, with citation of some of the more recent and important examples which illustrate some of the basic principles involved.     

Design of biomimetic catalysts by molecular imprinting in synthetic polymers: the role of transition state stabilization

The impressive efficiency and selectivity of biological catalysts has engendered a long-standing effort to understand the details of enzyme action. It is widely accepted that enzymes accelerate reactions through their steric and electronic complementarity to the reactants in the rate-determining transition states. Thus, tight binding to the transition state of a reactant (rather than to the corresponding substrate) lowers the activation energy of the reaction, providing strong catalytic activity. Debates concerning the fundamentals of enzyme catalysis continue, however, and non-natural enzyme mimics offer important additional insight in this area. Molecular structures that mimic enzymes through the design of a predetermined binding site that stabilizes the transition state of a desired reaction are invaluable in this regard. Catalytic antibodies, which can be quite active when raised against stable transition state analogues of the corresponding reaction, represent particularly successful examples. Recently, synthetic chemistry has begun to match nature's ability to produce antibody-like binding sites with high affinities for the transition state. Thus, synthetic, molecularly imprinted polymers have been engineered to provide enzyme-like specificity and activity, and they now represent a powerful tool for creating highly efficient catalysts. In this Account, we review recent efforts to develop enzyme models through the concept of transition state stabilization. In particular, models for carboxypeptidase A were prepared through the molecular imprinting of synthetic polymers. On the basis of successful experiments with phosphonic esters as templates to arrange amidinium groups in the active site, the method was further improved by combining the concept of transition state stabilization with the introduction of special catalytic moieties, such as metal ions in a defined orientation in the active site. In this way, the imprinted polymers were able to provide both an electrostatic stabilization for the transition state through the amidinium group as well as a synergism of transition state recognition and metal ion catalysis. The result was an excellent catalyst for carbonate hydrolysis. These enzyme mimics represent the most active catalysts ever prepared through the molecular imprinting strategy. Their catalytic activity, catalytic efficiency, and catalytic proficiency clearly surpass those of the corresponding catalytic antibodies. The active structures in natural enzymes evolve within soluble proteins, typically by the refining of the folding of one polypeptide chain. To incorporate these characteristics into synthetic polymers, we used the concept of transition state stabilization to develop soluble, nanosized carboxypeptidase A models using a new polymerization method we term the "post-dilution polymerization method". With this methodology, we were able to prepare soluble, highly cross-linked, single-molecule nanoparticles. These particles have controlled molecular weights (39 kDa, for example) and, on average, one catalytically active site per particle. Our strategies have made it possible to obtain efficient new enzyme models and further advance the structural and functional analogy with natural enzymes. Moreover, this bioinspired design based on molecular imprinting in synthetic polymers offers further support for the concept of transition state stabilization in catalysis.     

氯化镁负载单中心催化剂用于烯烃聚合研究进展

叙述了近年来氯化镁负载单中心催化剂的新进展,包括用氯化镁负载茂金属催化剂和后过渡金属催化剂的负载化方法以及在烯烃聚合的应用.所形成的氯化镁负载催化剂既能保持均相催化剂的高活性,满足工业生产要求,同时也较均相催化剂有着诸多优势,可改善聚合物的形态结构,抑制粘釜现象等.指出了氯化镁负载单中心催化剂未来研究的方向.     

铌酸的催化应用

铌酸和含铌化合物独特酸性和热稳定性,广泛的应用催化领域中。铌酸可直接作为固体催化剂,应用于水解、酯化、缩合、烷基化等反应中;铌酸也作为载体负载金属,应用于F-T合成、氧化反应和加氢等反应中;含铌化合物也可作为负载型催化剂,负载到不同类型的载体上;含铌化合物也作为助剂或光催化剂,广泛地应用于催化多种化学反应。铌类催化剂具有催化活性高、选择性好和使用寿命长等优点。研究开发新型铌类催化剂具有良好的应用前景。     

适用于丙烯二聚反应非均相催化剂的研究进展

丙烯二聚反应是生产4-甲基-1-戊烯、1-己烯等端碳烯烃的重要手段,其产物可作为特种高分子材料单体、汽油添加剂和化工有机中间体,关键技术在于高效催化剂的开发。非均相催化剂相比于均相催化剂因易回收、对环境污染小等优点受到了学者们的广泛关注。本文综述了丙烯二聚非均相催化剂的研究进展,依据固体碱催化剂与固体酸催化剂在丙烯二聚反应中不同的反应机理,比较了两者各自的优缺点。回顾了固体碱催化剂的发展历程及工业化应用,并以碱金属钾为例总结了反应机理。详细介绍了固体酸催化剂中的固体磷酸催化剂、分子筛催化剂和负载型过渡金属催化剂。针对固体碱催化剂制备条件苛刻等问题,提出了改善催化装置的新思路;针对固体酸催化剂选择性不足的劣势,指出了应该进一步完善机理,并合理设计酸性载体与过渡金属相结合的催化剂。     

Polymerization of α-Olefins Using Benzamidinate Zirconium Complexes Supported on Mesoporous Silica Materials

The polymerization of ethylene and propylene were studied using an anchored dimethyl benzamidinate zirconium complex. As supports, mesoporous silicas MCM-41 and HMS were utilized. These inorganic materials were reacted with methylalumoxane to serve as the cocatalyst and to avoid the deactivation of the active cationic complex. The reaction of the octahedral benzamidinate zirconium complex with the supported cocatalysts results in the formation of active catalytic systems for the polymerization of olefins. The polymer properties were found to depend on the nature of the supports. The activity of the heterogeneous catalysts and the polymer characteristics were compared with those obtained with the homogeneous catalyst.     

Polymer-supported N-heterocyclic carbene-iron(III) catalyst and its application to dehydration of fructose into 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furfural

Polymer-supported NHC–metal catalysts were prepared from chloromethyl polystyrene resin via two-step reaction. Metals were loaded into 1.6 – 16 mol% of total imidazolium and the remaining imidazolium chloride salt provided ionic liquid moiety. The formation of metal complex with the polymer-supported NHC ligand was analyzed by ATR FT-IR, XRD, and XPS. The synthesized polymer-supported NHC–metal catalysts were applied to the dehydration of fructose into HMF. The environmentally benign and inexpensive polymer-supported NHC–Fe^III catalyst showed good catalytic activity and yielded HMF at 73% (with a conversion of 97%). It could also be reused without significant loss of catalytic activity.     

Vanadium Complexes Based Polymer Supported Catalysts: A Brief Account of Research from Our Group

Solid supported catalysts can go a long way in developing catalyst based technology because of their high efficiency with recyclability and easy separation from the reaction mixture. Immobilizations of homogeneous catalysts through covalent bond with chloromethylated polystyrene cross-linked with divinylbenzene and develop them as environmentally safe heterogeneous catalysts for oxidation reaction have attracted attention in recent years. Recently, effort from our research laboratory was to synthesize new recyclable polymer-supported vanadium complexes based heterogeneous catalysts. Thus, chloromethylated polystyrene cross linked with 5% divinylbenzene was used as support to prepare variety of polymer supported vanadium catalysts. These catalysts have successfully been used for the oxidation and oxidative bromination of various organic substrates. Keeping in mind the industrial usage of these heterogeneous catalysts, the leaching and recycle ability of all polymer-supported catalysts have also been tested. Most catalysts are stable and do not leach during the catalytic reactions.     

Supramolecular Self-Assembled Ligands in Asymmetric Transition Metal Catalysis

The design of novel chiral ligands is at the core of asymmetric catalysis. The catalytic characteristics of a transition metal catalyst such as activity, selectivity and stability can be fine-tuned by optimization of the steric and electronic properties of the coordinating ligands. In asymmetric transformations, catalyst optimization still relies to a large extent on trial-and-error and educated guesses. New strategies based on combinatorial screening and high-throughput experimentation have been introduced for the design and optimization of new ligands and catalytic systems. Supramolecular bidentate ligands that form by self-assembly of building blocks are particularly suited for this combinatorial approach as the potential number of catalysts grows exponentially with the number of building blocks synthesized. Catalytic systems based on supramolecular interactions have proven to be highly advantageous in creating large ligand libraries for high-throughput screening, which allows optimization of activity and selectivity for a variety of reactions. In this review we describe the progress in this field.     

异丙苯催化氧化催化剂研究进展

异丙苯氧化反应是石油化学工业中重要的反应过程,传统的异丙苯氧化工艺是以少量的氧化产物过氧化氢异丙苯作为引发剂的无催化氧化工艺,存在效率低和安全性差等缺陷。几十年来,研究者对异丙苯催化氧化工艺进行了广泛研究,开发的催化剂类型主要有碱金属或碱土金属催化剂、金属氧化催化剂、过渡金属离子有机络合物催化剂、N-羟基邻苯二甲酰亚胺类催化剂、负载型催化剂、金属及合金催化剂和中孔分子筛催化剂等。其中,改性MgO催化剂、Ag及Ag-Au合金催化剂和负载过渡金属杂原子的中孔分子筛催化剂表现出较优越的催化性能,具有较好的开发前景。但迄今为止报道的各类催化体系还不能彻底解决传统氧化工艺的固有问题,开发具有高活性、高选择性和高稳定性的环境友好催化体系是今后研究的重点。     

非金属碳基丙烷直接脱氢制丙烯催化剂研究进展

采用绿色可持续的催化剂替代传统贵金属或过渡金属催化剂是目前工业催化领域研究的重要方向。作为绿色催化剂中的重要成员之一,多孔碳基材料由于其独特的孔道结构、较大的比表面积、丰富的表面含氧官能团以及良好的导电性和抗腐蚀性,被广泛应用于生物、医药、电池和化工领域。近年来,非金属碳基催化剂被发现是一种良好的丙烷脱氢催化剂,具有替代传统Pt基和Cr基催化剂的应用前景,得到广泛关注。一般而言,碳基催化剂的催化活性与其表面性质和孔道结构有很大关系:(1)碳材料表面的含氧官能团、杂原子和缺陷位点等可以作为活性中心,活化丙烷分子中的碳氢键,实现脱氢的目的;(2)碳材料的孔道结构和电子特性等会影响反应物丙烷和反应产物丙烯分子的扩散和传质,进而影响碳基催化剂在丙烷脱氢反应中的活性、选择性和稳定性。综述近年来丙烷直接脱氢制丙烯碳基催化剂的研究进展,详细比较不同碳材料之间的优缺点和性能差异,系统讨论碳材料的活性位点和物化性质对其催化性能的影响,并对未来碳基丙烷脱氢催化剂的发展方向和应用前景进行展望。