ACS Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c06163
Xinhua Wang, Yuyuan Mao, Shengqing Ye, Xiaoyu Zhou, Jie Wu, Shaoyu Li
{"title":"Nucleophilic Sulfur Dioxide Insertion-Enabled Enantioselective Michael Additions to Access α-Chiral Sulfones","authors":"Xinhua Wang, Yuyuan Mao, Shengqing Ye, Xiaoyu Zhou, Jie Wu, Shaoyu Li","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c06163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c06163","url":null,"abstract":"The asymmetric hydrosulfonylation of α,β-unsaturated carbonyls represents a significant goal in accessing α-chiral sulfones due to its high atom and step efficiency. In contrast to the well-established radical sulfonylation, the classical Michael addition using sulfonyl anions as nucleophiles for assembling α-chiral sulfone structures remains elusive and challenging. In this work, we introduce an organocatalytic enantioselective Michael addition of α,β-unsaturated carbonyls with sulfur dioxide insertion-enabled γ-keto sulfinates as the nucleophiles, which provides an alternative pathway for producing highly enantioenriched α-chiral sulfone derivatives with high atom economy. Mechanistic details of the transformation pathway and stereochemical induction were systematically verified through controlled experiments and DFT calculations.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145235255","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}
ACS Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c04378
Fazhan Sun, Guihao Liu, Tianqi Nie, Zhaohui Wu, Yihang Hu, Ziheng Song, Yu-Fei Song
{"title":"Synergistic Band Gap Narrowing and Interfacial Electron Flow in Pd-Embedded NiCo-LDH for High-Efficiency Glycerol Electrooxidation","authors":"Fazhan Sun, Guihao Liu, Tianqi Nie, Zhaohui Wu, Yihang Hu, Ziheng Song, Yu-Fei Song","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c04378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c04378","url":null,"abstract":"Synergistic processes of oxidation and adsorption of glycerol as a nucleophilic reagent during electrooxidation are of great importance, underscoring the need for a more comprehensive understanding of the adsorption and oxidation processes during glycerol electrooxidation. Herein, a unique structure of Pd<sub>NP</sub>/NiCo, in which the Pd nanoparticles (NPs) (2.38 nm) were embedded in NiCo-layered double hydroxides (NiCo-LDH, denoted as NiCo), was constructed to synergistically enhance the oxidation and adsorption of glycerol molecules through narrowing the band gap and promoting the electronic metal–support interaction (EMSI)-induced interfacial electron-directed flow of the catalyst. The Pd<sub>NP</sub>/NiCo achieved outstanding glycerol oxidation reaction (GOR) performance, requiring only 1.30 and 1.36 V (vs RHE) to achieve current densities of 10 mA cm<sup>–2</sup> and 100 mA cm<sup>–2</sup>, respectively. Furthermore, comprehensive experimental and spectroscopic characterization confirmed that the successful embedding of Pd NPs into the NiCo-LDH effectively induced band gap narrowing of NiCo from 2.85 to 2.30 eV and promoted the formation of the oxidatively active Ni<sup>3+</sup>–O species, thereby enhancing the electrooxidation process. Concurrently, the incorporated Pd nanoparticles significantly improved the glycerol adsorption capacity. The density functional theory (DFT) calculations revealed a significantly lower deprotonation energy barrier of 0.15 eV and easier generation of the active species Ni<sup>3+</sup>–O for Pd<sub>NP</sub>/NiCo compared to NiCo. In addition, the glycerol molecules located at the Pd–NiCo interface showed the most negative adsorption energy barrier compared with those of NiCo and Pd NPs, which was due to the strong electronic metal–support interaction (EMSI) at the interface between Pd NPs and NiCo-LDH.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145235248","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":"Enhanced Electron Transfer via RuO2/TiO2 Lattice Matching Drives High-Performance Deacon Catalysis","authors":"Yuchen Zhang, Songpei Zhang, Yuxue Yue, Mingyi Xiao, Guangyu Cheng, Yilun Pan, Shitong Liu, Chunfa Li, Jia Zhao, Xiaonian Li","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c04277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c04277","url":null,"abstract":"The Deacon process is important and highly desired for chlorine recycling in the chlor-alkali industry. Ru-based catalysts have always attracted much attention in the Deacon reaction; however, they are very easy to deactivate. One of the most advanced methods for adjusting the electrical and geometrical configurations of metal centers is lattice strain engineering, which plays a key role in controlling the interactions between adsorbate molecules and catalytic surfaces. In this study, a catalyst was developed via lattice matching between the active site and the support to enhance d-electron density near the Fermi level and strengthen metal–support interactions. The resulting catalyst achieves sustained chlorine production with a conversion rate of 90% and maintains stability for over 200 h during the Deacon process. This work presents a strategy to inhibit the aggregation of RuO<sub>2</sub> and a fresh platform for designing highly stable catalysts.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145229074","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}
ACS Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c05896
Payal Chaudhary, Vitaly Alexandrov
{"title":"Correction to “Mechanism of Bicarbonate-Enhanced Solar Oxidation of Water to Hydrogen Peroxide over BiVO4”","authors":"Payal Chaudhary, Vitaly Alexandrov","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c05896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c05896","url":null,"abstract":"In the original publication, the units for the Lagrange multipliers obtained in CP2K free energy calculations were mistakenly considered as eV/Å instead of Hartree/Bohr. Therefore, the energy axes (<i>y</i>-axes) in Figures 4 and 5 should be scaled by a factor of 51.422 to reflect the unit conversion. While this significantly increases the estimated energy barriers, it does not change the main conclusions of the paper, such as the stability of HCO<sub>4</sub><sup>–</sup> species in unconstrained simulations and the electrochemical step being rate limiting. This article has not yet been cited by other publications.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145229075","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}
ACS Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c05366
Nereida Hidalgo, Ryan Walser-Kuntz, Patrick L. Holland
{"title":"Prospects for Forming C–N Bonds from Dinitrogen","authors":"Nereida Hidalgo, Ryan Walser-Kuntz, Patrick L. Holland","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c05366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c05366","url":null,"abstract":"The formation of C–N bonds from molecular dinitrogen (N<sub>2</sub>) offers a synthetic route to value-added nitrogen-containing compounds without relying on prefunctionalized nitrogen sources. This Perspective highlights recent advances in forming C–N bonds from N<sub>2</sub> with homogeneous transition metal complexes. After discussing how transition metal complexes activate N<sub>2</sub> through various coordination modes, we focus on the reactivity of reduced nitrogen intermediates with different kinds of carbon sources. Carbon electrophiles and nucleophiles enable C–N bond formation via insertion, substitution, or radical pathways. Cycloaddition reactions, particularly involving polarized N<sub>2</sub> ligands and unsaturated carbon electrophiles, offer routes to more complex products. We describe efforts to achieve catalytic turnover and emphasize the remaining obstacles to catalytic C–N bond construction.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"348 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145235252","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":"Photoinduced and Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Alkylation of Glycine Derivatives via a Synergistic Electron/Atom Transfer Process","authors":"Qingsong Zhou, Yixuan Zhang, Jinlong Shang, Rupeng Qi, Xiaoyu Ren, Zhaoqing Xu, Chao Wang","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c05723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c05723","url":null,"abstract":"As a fundamental building block for unnatural amino acids, photoinduced stereoselective functionalization at glycine’s C(sp<sup>3</sup>)–H bond provides a mild and effective route to synthesize aliphatic unnatural amino acids. Despite significant progress, developing alkylating reagents that avoid prefunctionalization and are readily available remains challenging. Herein, we report a photoinduced synergistic catalytic strategy merging single-electron transfer and atom transfer to efficiently achieve stereoselective cross-coupling between glycine derivatives and inactivated hydrocarbons or alkyl iodides. The key advantages of this strategy are 3-fold: 1) employing aryl sulfonium salts as aryl radical precursors demonstrates atom economy, with the additional benefits of straightforward synthesis and convenient recovery of raw materials; 2) the synergistic interplay between the photoreducing capability of dual-functional copper complexes and the atom-transfer proficiency of aryl radicals overcomes substrate redox potential limitations; and 3) the hydrogen atom abstraction capability of aryl radicals circumvents the requirement for strong external oxidants in conventional cross-dehydrogenative coupling reactions.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145235254","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}
ACS Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c05262
Yao Wu, Rulin Feng, Tai-Ping Zhou, Igor Ying Zhang, Binju Wang
{"title":"Deciphering the Coordination Environment’s Impact on O–O Activation in Dicopper Enzymes: Computational Insights from AhyBURP Peptide Cyclase","authors":"Yao Wu, Rulin Feng, Tai-Ping Zhou, Igor Ying Zhang, Binju Wang","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c05262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c05262","url":null,"abstract":"Copper active sites are pivotal in oxygen activation processes, generating diverse copper–oxygen species that drive various biological transformations. AhyBURP, a peptide cyclase, contains a dicopper active center that is involved in the biosynthesis of lyciumin I and legumenin. In this study, we employed a combined quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach with the TPSS functional to elucidate the catalytic mechanism of AhyBURP. To rigorously assess the accuracy of these calculations─particularly for strongly correlated systems─we benchmarked the QM/MM results against the high-level multireference NEVPT2 method and the advanced DFT methods tB4LYP and R-xDH7, with an emphasis on strong correlation effects. Unlike conventional dicopper enzymes, AhyBURP is capable of mediating direct O–O bond cleavage within the μ-η<sup>2</sup>:η<sup>2</sup>-peroxide dicopper(II) species, yielding the active bis-μ-oxo dicopper(III) intermediate. This intermediate subsequently abstracts hydrogen atoms from both tryptophan and glycine substrates, generating a biradical intermediate that facilitates subsequent intermolecular C–N coupling. Furthermore, our study reveals that the ligand coordination architecture critically determines the efficiency of O–O bond activation, providing valuable insights for the rational design of dicopper active sites with tailored reactivity.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145235251","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}
ACS Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c06538
Thu-Van Nguyen, Benjamin Théron, Lukáš Vlk, Valentin Vaillant-Coindard, Cédric Balan, Jérôme Bayardon, Laurent Plasseraud, Yoann Rousselin, Paul Fleurat-Lessard, Raluca Malacea-Kabbara, Pierre Le Gendre
{"title":"Correction to “FAlen-Zn Complexes for the Cycloaddition of CO2 to Epoxide and the Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide”","authors":"Thu-Van Nguyen, Benjamin Théron, Lukáš Vlk, Valentin Vaillant-Coindard, Cédric Balan, Jérôme Bayardon, Laurent Plasseraud, Yoann Rousselin, Paul Fleurat-Lessard, Raluca Malacea-Kabbara, Pierre Le Gendre","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c06538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c06538","url":null,"abstract":"In the Author Information, the affiliation for author Lukáš Vlk was incomplete. The correct, complete information is provided here; it has also been corrected in the version of record for the original full paper online. <b>Lukáš Vlk</b> – <i>Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, ICMUB UMR 6302, Dijon F-21000, France; Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice 532 10, Czech Republic</i>; orcid.org/0009-0009-6717-3970 This article has not yet been cited by other publications.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145229076","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":"Carbon-Doped Lattice Interstitial Sites Enable Water-Driven Electrocatalytic Alkyne Semihydrogenation by Suppressing Subsurface Hydrogen","authors":"Yuan Ren, Ruiyun Guo, Yanan Li, Zixin Ge, Yaohui Zhao, Jiapeng Huang, Qian Wang, Junhao Lu, Mingshang Jin","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c05096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c05096","url":null,"abstract":"While electrochemical semihydrogenation (ESH) of alkynes using water-derived hydrogen presents an eco-friendly alternative to traditional thermocatalytic methods, achieving high alkene selectivity remains fundamentally constrained by subsurface hydrogen accumulation in palladium (Pd)-based electrocatalysts. To address this challenge, we developed a class of carbon-doped Pd nanocubes (PdC<sub><i>x</i></sub> NCs) with precisely modulated interstitial carbon occupancy in lattice interstitial sites. The optimized PdC<sub>0.15</sub> NCs achieved high catalytic performance with 95.4% alkene selectivity at −1.0 V (vs Hg/HgO) and full conversion, representing a 3-fold selectivity enhancement over pure Pd counterparts without activity compromise. Through comprehensive structural and electrochemical characterization, we identified two critical mechanistic advantages: (1) carbon intercalation effectively suppresses subsurface hydrogen formation through lattice occupation effects, and (2) strategically weakened intermediate adsorption energetics prevent overhydrogenation pathways. <i>In situ</i> spectroscopic analysis and deuterium isotope tracing elucidated water-derived H* as the active hydrogen species, facilitating radical-mediated hydrogenation that preserves sensitive functional groups (e.g., C–Cl bonds) while achieving complete Z-selectivity for challenging internal alkynes. This interstitial doping strategy fundamentally resolves the inherent selectivity limitations of Pd catalysts, establishing an energy-efficient platform for ambient-condition synthesis of high-yield alkenes with preserved functionality.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145235249","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}
ACS Catalysis Pub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c05705
Oleg Y. Lyakin, Evgenii P. Talsi, Konstantin P. Bryliakov
{"title":"Bioinspired Oxidations of C–H Groups Mediated by Nonheme Complexes of Late Transition Metals Co, Ni, and Cu","authors":"Oleg Y. Lyakin, Evgenii P. Talsi, Konstantin P. Bryliakov","doi":"10.1021/acscatal.5c05705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c05705","url":null,"abstract":"Deliberately selective activation and functionalization of the abundant and poorly reactive C–H bonds have long been a major challenge, as well as inspiration, for synthetic and catalytic chemists. In recent years, this interest has boosted due to the growing demands of medicinal chemistry for the efficient, environmentally benign, and atom-economic methods of late-stage functionalization/molecular editing of complex organic substrates. One promising general approach relies on biomimetic, or bioinspired, transition metal-based catalysts that mimic the catalytic reactivity of naturally occurring metalloenzymes oxygenases. So far, Fe- and Mn-based catalysts have dominated this area; however, complexes of late transition metals, such as Co, Ni, and Cu, have been attracting increasing attention in both synthetic and mechanistic aspects, mostly due to their tunable catalytic reactivity complementing the reactivity patterns of their Fe and Mn counterparts. Another point of interest is their location in the periodic table, beyond the so-called “oxo-wall”─which entails peculiarities in the electronic structures of the active species responsible for C–H activation and oxygen transfer. This contribution is aimed at surveying the existing systems based on bioinspired nonheme complexes of Co, Ni, and Cu, discussing their catalytic reactivity patterns, the nature of the active species, and the overall mechanisms of catalysis. Contributions since 2005 are considered.","PeriodicalId":9,"journal":{"name":"ACS Catalysis ","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145235253","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}