Plasmonic O2 dissociation and spillover expedite selective oxidation of primary C

Plasmonic O2 dissociation and spillover expedite selective oxidation of primary C–H bonds

Published:2021 Issue:46 Volume:12 Page:15308-15317
ISSN:2041-6520
Container-title:Chemical Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Chem. Sci.

Author:

Li Hao¹²,Shang Huan³,Jiang Fuze¹²,Zhu Xingzhong⁴^ORCID,Ruan Qifeng⁵,Zhang Lizhi³^ORCID,Wang Jing¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland

2. Laboratory for Advanced Analytical Technologies, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland

3. Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Applied & Environmental Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China

4. College of Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

5. Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore

Abstract

Room-temperature O2 dissociation and spillover, as driven by plasmonic Ru on oxygen-deficient TiO2, expedite the selective oxidation of primary C–H bonds in alkyl aromatics for synthesizing industrially important organic compounds.

Funder

ETH Zürich Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/SC/D1SC04632B

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