TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechanistic Impacts of Metal Site and Solvent Identities for Alkene Oxidation over Carboxylate Fe and Cr Metal-Organic Frameworks
AU - Yang, Rachel A.
AU - Sarazen, Michele L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the use of Princeton’s Imaging and Analysis Center, which is partially supported by the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-MRSEC program (DMR-1420541). We also appreciate the use of the Department of Chemistry’s NMR facility at Princeton that has enabled this work. The authors thank Samuel C. Moore for providing FTIR spectra for 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid. Finally, thank you to Professor Kirk H. Bevan and Shuaishuai Yuan for their recommendation of CP2K and Simon Bilodeau for his efforts in installing, testing, and discussing the use of CP2K for DFT calculations and for computational hardware access.
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PY - 2022/12/2
Y1 - 2022/12/2
N2 - Isolated Fe(III) and Cr(III) sites contained in nanoporous voids of isoreticular carboxylate MIL-101(Fe) and MIL-101(Cr) are interrogated for their reactivity and selectivity of liquid-phase styrene oxidation by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Batch kinetic measurements in acetonitrile (MeCN) at 323 K showcase that both metal-normalized oxygenate production and H2O2consumption rates are O(101) higher for MIL-101(Fe) than MIL-101(Cr). Thermodynamically consistent reaction pathways, constructed through spiking experiments, reveal complex interconnectivities between primary (styrene oxide, benzaldehyde) and secondary (styrene glycol, benzoic acid, phenylacetaldehyde) oxygenates. Though benzaldehyde is the majority product for both MIL-101(Fe) and MIL-101(Cr), isoconversion (Xstyrene= 7%) product distributions suggest intrinsic differences in preferred reaction pathways. Apparent energy barriers for all pathways are lower over MIL-101(Fe) than for MIL-101(Cr), conferred by metal electron affinity differences for primary oxygenate selectivity, while secondary (inter)conversion rates trend with acid site densities. Fitted rate laws, radical trapping, adsorption experiments, and complementary DFT calculations indicate surface-mediated reactions by H2O2-derived surface species that outcompete bound styrene, product oxygenate, solvent, and water molecules for both MIL-101(Fe) and MIL-101(Cr) in MeCN. Extracted enthalpic and entropic effects from temperature-dependent experiments (318-328 K) in MeCN and MeOH showcase the ability of hydrogen bonding solvents in locally hydrophilic environments to selectively stabilize primary oxygenate transition states and indicate additional confinement effects from microporous substructures in MIL-101(Fe) and MIL-101(Cr). Simplified rate expressions are expanded to encompass first-order catalyst deactivation rates through temporal metal leaching experiments and assert that metal leaching dominates MIL-101(Cr) catalyst inefficiencies, while a combination of metal leaching and other (ir)reversible site changes are present for MIL-101(Fe). Overall, this work combines kinetic, spectroscopic, numerical, and computational approaches to rigorously define reaction and deactivation mechanisms for styrene oxidation by H2O2over isoreticular MIL-101(Fe) and MIL-101(Cr).
AB - Isolated Fe(III) and Cr(III) sites contained in nanoporous voids of isoreticular carboxylate MIL-101(Fe) and MIL-101(Cr) are interrogated for their reactivity and selectivity of liquid-phase styrene oxidation by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Batch kinetic measurements in acetonitrile (MeCN) at 323 K showcase that both metal-normalized oxygenate production and H2O2consumption rates are O(101) higher for MIL-101(Fe) than MIL-101(Cr). Thermodynamically consistent reaction pathways, constructed through spiking experiments, reveal complex interconnectivities between primary (styrene oxide, benzaldehyde) and secondary (styrene glycol, benzoic acid, phenylacetaldehyde) oxygenates. Though benzaldehyde is the majority product for both MIL-101(Fe) and MIL-101(Cr), isoconversion (Xstyrene= 7%) product distributions suggest intrinsic differences in preferred reaction pathways. Apparent energy barriers for all pathways are lower over MIL-101(Fe) than for MIL-101(Cr), conferred by metal electron affinity differences for primary oxygenate selectivity, while secondary (inter)conversion rates trend with acid site densities. Fitted rate laws, radical trapping, adsorption experiments, and complementary DFT calculations indicate surface-mediated reactions by H2O2-derived surface species that outcompete bound styrene, product oxygenate, solvent, and water molecules for both MIL-101(Fe) and MIL-101(Cr) in MeCN. Extracted enthalpic and entropic effects from temperature-dependent experiments (318-328 K) in MeCN and MeOH showcase the ability of hydrogen bonding solvents in locally hydrophilic environments to selectively stabilize primary oxygenate transition states and indicate additional confinement effects from microporous substructures in MIL-101(Fe) and MIL-101(Cr). Simplified rate expressions are expanded to encompass first-order catalyst deactivation rates through temporal metal leaching experiments and assert that metal leaching dominates MIL-101(Cr) catalyst inefficiencies, while a combination of metal leaching and other (ir)reversible site changes are present for MIL-101(Fe). Overall, this work combines kinetic, spectroscopic, numerical, and computational approaches to rigorously define reaction and deactivation mechanisms for styrene oxidation by H2O2over isoreticular MIL-101(Fe) and MIL-101(Cr).
KW - alkene
KW - chromium
KW - deactivation
KW - hydrogen peroxide
KW - iron
KW - mechanism
KW - metal-organic framework catalysis
KW - oxidation
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U2 - 10.1021/acscatal.2c04351
DO - 10.1021/acscatal.2c04351
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85141970759
SN - 2155-5435
VL - 12
SP - 14476
EP - 14491
JO - ACS Catalysis
JF - ACS Catalysis
IS - 23
ER -