{"title":"Cobalt-catalyzed aminocarbonylation of alkyl iodides","authors":"Guang Xu , Zhi-Peng Bao , Xiao-Feng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116456","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116456","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amides are valuable compounds with important applications in various areas. Herein, a new cobalt-catalyzed carbonylation of alkyl iodides with amines was reported, which has the advantages of mild reaction conditions and scalability. Mechanistic studies indicate that this reaction proceeds via a radical SET pathway.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catalysis","volume":"452 ","pages":"Article 116456"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Palladium-catalyzed carbonylative four-component synthesis of β-perfluoroalkyl amides with alkenylsilanes as the ethylene source","authors":"Yong-Wang Huo, Xiao-Feng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116450","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116450","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the traditional transformations with ethylene gas, besides the needing of ethylene cylinder and related safety issues, significant amount of ethylene was released and wasted. Herein, we developed a palladium-catalyzed four-component perfluoroalkylation/aminocarbonylation reaction for the efficient synthesis of β-perfluoroalkyl amides. This transformation employs low-toxicity and highly stable alkenylsilanes as an ethylene surrogate which can make the dosing of ethylene controllable, delivering diverse β-perfluoroalkyl amides in moderate to good yields under relatively mild conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catalysis","volume":"452 ","pages":"Article 116450"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145154085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Rational design of selective catalysts for ethylene hydroformylation via microkinetic modeling and universal neural network potentials” [J. Catal. 450 (2025) 116253]","authors":"Kento Sakai, Ippei Furikado, Andrew J. Medford","doi":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116392","url":null,"abstract":"The authors regret that there were labelling errors in the y-axis of some figures in the published article. Specifically, in Fig. 1 (main text) and Figs. S2 and S5 (Supporting Information), the y-axis was inadvertently displayed using integer values instead of decimal notation when the figures were generated.<span><figure><span><img alt=\"\" height=\"425\" src=\"https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0021951725004580-fx1.jpg\"/><ol><li><span><span>Download: <span>Download high-res image (175KB)</span></span></span></li><li><span><span>Download: <span>Download full-size image</span></span></span></li></ol></span></figure></span>","PeriodicalId":346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catalysis","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145140591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xuemei Liao , Xiaoli Wei , Yunye Wang , Huanqi Gou , Yingchun Yang , Xiaoxiao Luo , Shuang Wang , Xiaopeng Li , Jun Ni , Cuong Pham-Huu
{"title":"An effective way to produce fatty alcohol through coupling fatty acid with CO2 hydrogenation over CuZnZrOx/C-N catalyst","authors":"Xuemei Liao , Xiaoli Wei , Yunye Wang , Huanqi Gou , Yingchun Yang , Xiaoxiao Luo , Shuang Wang , Xiaopeng Li , Jun Ni , Cuong Pham-Huu","doi":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116455","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116455","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The hydrogenation of fatty acids to fatty alcohols, alongside the hydrogenation of CO<sub>2</sub> to methanol, represents crucial pathways for addressing the depletion of fossil resources and achieving carbon neutrality. However, the catalytic conversion rates of these two reactions remain low under mild conditions. In this study, we discovered an innovative approach that couples stearic acid (C<sub>17</sub>COOH) hydrogenation with CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation in a one-pot catalytic tandem process using the optimized CuZn2ZrO<sub>x</sub>/C-N catalyst. This method significantly enhances the yields of methanol and fatty alcohol under mild reaction conditions of 200 °C, 3 MPa, 6 h, with a H<sub>2</sub>:CO<sub>2</sub> ratio of 3:1. The reaction mechanism revealed that stearic acid methyl ester (C<sub>17</sub>COOCH<sub>3</sub>) acts as a key intermediate in the coupling process. Specifically, the in situ methanol produced from CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation is converted by C<sub>17</sub>COOH into C<sub>17</sub>COOCH<sub>3</sub>, which is then hydrogenated to form stearic alcohol. This coupling reaction offers important insights for the simultaneous utilization of CO<sub>2</sub> and biomass-derived fatty acids in producing value-added chemicals. Furthermore, our findings could inspire the design of more synergistically coupled catalytic reactions that leverage dual-promotional effects for the hydrogenation of CO<sub>2</sub> and carboxylic acid compounds. This approach not only enhances the efficiency of these transformations but also aligns with the broader goals of sustainability and resource efficiency in chemical processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catalysis","volume":"452 ","pages":"Article 116455"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145140593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jia Ma , Xiao-Hui Li , Na Xu, Zhong Zhang, Chang Sun, Xiu-Li Wang
{"title":"pH-induced octamolybdate-based metal–organic complexes with different coordinated metal centers for catalytic epoxidation reaction of alkenes","authors":"Jia Ma , Xiao-Hui Li , Na Xu, Zhong Zhang, Chang Sun, Xiu-Li Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116444","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116444","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The epoxidation of olefins is considered an essential reaction in chemistry, petrochemistry, and materials science. Developing highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts for the epoxidation reaction of olefins is of great significance. In this work, Co<sup>2+</sup> was selected as the central metal to assemble with ammonium molybdate and a N,N’-bis(4-pyrimidinecarboxaido)-1,4-butane (bpyb) ligand under hydrothermal conditions, and two new polyoxometalate (POM)-based cobalt complexes, [Co(bpyb)(β-Mo<sub>8</sub>O<sub>26</sub>)<sub>0.5</sub>(H<sub>2</sub>O)]·H<sub>2</sub>O (Co-POMOC-1) and [Co(bpyb)(β-Mo<sub>8</sub>O<sub>26</sub>)<sub>0.5</sub>(H<sub>2</sub>O)]·2H<sub>2</sub>O (Co-POMOC-2) were synthesized by adjusting the pH of the solutions, which were characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction, XPS, PXRD and IR. Two Co-POMOCs exhibited different coordination modes of Co(II) atoms, endowing them with different accessibilities of Co(II) sites and different catalytic activities. Co-POMOC-1 exhibits excellent heterogenous catalytic activity in the epoxidation reaction of olefins, achieving 99 % yield and 100 % selectivity of 1,2-epoxycyclooctane under O<sub>2</sub> atmosphere at 55°C within 22 min. Furthermore, a new [Zn(bpyb)(β-Mo<sub>8</sub>O<sub>26</sub>)<sub>0.5</sub>(H<sub>2</sub>O)]·H<sub>2</sub>O (Zn-POMOC), which is isomorphous to Co-POMOC-1, was synthesized to explore the catalytic mechanism by comparison. The synergistic catalysis and catalysis mechanism of Co(II) and {β-Mo<sub>8</sub>} sites in Co-POMOCs for the olefin epoxidation reaction were investigated systematically.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catalysis","volume":"452 ","pages":"Article 116444"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145127985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Si Wang , Yawen Shi , Zhaowei Tian , Hu Ding , Yuan Deng , Shilong Zhang , Lei Wang , Haisong Feng , Xin Zhang
{"title":"Regulation of M4/Nb2O5 catalysts toward directed product selectivity in guaiacol hydrodeoxygenation","authors":"Si Wang , Yawen Shi , Zhaowei Tian , Hu Ding , Yuan Deng , Shilong Zhang , Lei Wang , Haisong Feng , Xin Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116454","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116454","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Guaiacol hydrodeoxygenation (HDO), a key reaction in lignin valorization, enables the production of high-octane, low-oxygen compounds such as benzene and cyclohexane. However, precise control over product selectivity remains a main challenge due to the complex reaction network. In this work, density functional theory (DFT) calculations were employed to investigate the mechanism and product selectivity of guaiacol HDO over five metal clusters supported on Nb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> (M<sub>4</sub>/Nb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub>, M = Ru, Rh, Pd, Ir, Pt). The results show that Ru<sub>4</sub> and Pt<sub>4</sub> clusters preferentially stabilize the adsorption of aromatic rings, thereby facilitating ring hydrogenation to form cyclohexanol. In contrast, Rh<sub>4</sub>/Nb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> and Pd<sub>4</sub>/Nb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> promote selective C–O bond cleavage with limited ring hydrogenation, favoring the formation of benzene. Notably, Ir<sub>4</sub>/Nb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> enables complete ring hydrogenation and C–OH bond cleavage, resulting in the formation of cyclohexane as the main product. Experimental results confirmed that Pd/Nb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> and Ir/Nb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> catalyze the conversion of guaiacol to fully deoxygenated products (benzene and cyclohexane), with a conversion rate of 70 %. The correlation study has confirmed that the electronegativity of metal clusters strongly affects the activity and selectivity of the reaction through the synergistic effect between the metal and the support. These findings elucidate the structure–activity–selectivity relationships underlying HDO performance and offer valuable insights for the rational design of selective deoxygenation catalysts targeting lignin-derived compounds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catalysis","volume":"453 ","pages":"Article 116454"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145134303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Smoczyńska, Sylwia Ostrowska, Anna Chojnacka, Steven P. Nolan, Cezary Pietraszuk
{"title":"The Suzuki–Miyaura coupling of aryl chlorides with arylboronic acids catalysed by NHC platinum complexes","authors":"Anna Smoczyńska, Sylwia Ostrowska, Anna Chojnacka, Steven P. Nolan, Cezary Pietraszuk","doi":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116452","url":null,"abstract":"The platinum complexes [Pt(IPr)(DMS)Cl<sub>2</sub>] and [Pt(IPr*)(DMS)Cl<sub>2</sub>] are highly effective catalysts in the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reaction involving aryl chlorides and aryl- and alkenylboronic acids. A procedure for the selective synthesis of a series of biphenyls is presented. The reaction can be scaled up to at least the gram level. A proposed mechanism for the process is outlined.","PeriodicalId":346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catalysis","volume":"190 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145127991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chengxiu Liu , Jiaxin Liang , Zhejun Ni , Jianhua Liao , Renshi Luo , Lu Ouyang
{"title":"Ir-enabled reductive hydroamination of alkynes with nitroarenes","authors":"Chengxiu Liu , Jiaxin Liang , Zhejun Ni , Jianhua Liao , Renshi Luo , Lu Ouyang","doi":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116453","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116453","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Direct catalytic reductive hydroamination of alkynes enables C-N bond formation. In comparison with traditional reductive hydroamination of alkynes with amines, using nitroarenes as amine sources remains underdeveloped. Herein, we report a new and practical Ir-catalyzed muti-step tandem reductive hydroamination of alkynes with nitroarenes, delivering a series of aromatic amines in good yields (up to 96 %) under mild conditions. In addition, the alkynes can be incorporated into nitro-substituted bioactive molecules and are readily realized structural modification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catalysis","volume":"452 ","pages":"Article 116453"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145127986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sui-Fang Peng , Jia-Wei Si , Fei Ye , Li Li , Shuang-Li Liu , Zheng Xu , Fuk-Yee Kwong , Li-Wen Xu
{"title":"Divergent catalysis: elucidation of ligand-controlled chemo-divergent Pd-catalyzed intramolecular allene-silacyclobutane reactions","authors":"Sui-Fang Peng , Jia-Wei Si , Fei Ye , Li Li , Shuang-Li Liu , Zheng Xu , Fuk-Yee Kwong , Li-Wen Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116449","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116449","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this work, building upon our previous discovery that structurally distinct phosphine ligands can effectively modulate palladium-catalyzed intramolecular allene-silacyclobutane reactions to afford two different seven-membered silacyclic products, herein we further demonstrated that using DPPF as ligand leads to the formation of a novel polysubstituted silane compounds containing three distinct types of alkenyl groups. This finding significantly expands the scope of divergent catalysis using identical metal catalyst and substrate. Through combined experimental and computational studies, we have comprehensively elucidated the reaction mechanism, in which the reaction is initiated by silicon-carbon bond activation of the silacyclobutane moiety, followed by allene insertion to form a seven-membered palladacycle as the key intermediate. The subsequent reaction pathways diverge due to the ligand-dependent modulation of reductive elimination versus <em>β</em>-H elimination processes. Furthermore, the ring-open intermediates of silacyclobutane moiety can undergo additional divergent pathways through either reductive elimination or 1,3-migration shift of the palladium intermediate, resulting in three distinct types of products for this divergent catalysis-based transformation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catalysis","volume":"452 ","pages":"Article 116449"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145117032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sai Chen , Zhongyao Zhang , Trenton Otto , Enrique Iglesia
{"title":"Elementary steps and bifunctional scavenging pathways in methylcyclohexane dehydrogenation reactions on dispersed Pt nanoparticles","authors":"Sai Chen , Zhongyao Zhang , Trenton Otto , Enrique Iglesia","doi":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116451","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116451","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dehydrogenation-hydrogenation cycles of methylcyclohexane (MCH) and toluene (TOL) provide a feasible strategy for hydrogen release and storage. This study describes the kinetic relevance of MCH dehydrogenation on Pt and addresses the support effect on turnover rates, which involves kinetically-competent Lewis acid-base (LAB) pairs on the supports (e.g., Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>, TiO<sub>2</sub>, and ZrO<sub>2</sub>) that affect the bound species on Pt surfaces with varying structures and reactivities. The less competent species in producing TOL on Pt surfaces are present at significant coverages and can desorb and are scavenged by LAB sites on the support, thus increasing the number and size of Pt surface atom ensembles for the more competent ones to form TOL. The support effect on MCH dehydrogenation turnover rates diminishes upon propionic acid titration, which occupies LAB sites irreversibly. H<sub>2</sub>-D<sub>2</sub> exchange and CO titration experiments under simultaneous MCH dehydrogenation confirm the significant coverage of the less competent species derived from MCH on Pt surfaces. For all investigated Pt catalysts, MCH dehydrogenation turnover rates depend linearly on pressures of methylcyclohexene (MCHE) as detectable intermediates that are in equilibrium with MCH and H<sub>2</sub>, indicating that the kinetically-relevant step occurs after MCHE formation and involves C–H activation in bound MCHE-derived species on Pt surfaces that are sparsely covered by reactive intermediates. The implications and practical significance of this work are not restricted to the subject reaction, and can be extended to other bifunctional catalytic systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catalysis","volume":"452 ","pages":"Article 116451"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145116722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}