Enhanced Proximity of Rh1,2-Rhn Ensembles Encaged in UiO-67 Boosting Catalytic Conversion of Syngas to Oxygenates

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Maintaining high conversion under the premise of high oxygenates selectivity in syngas conversion is important but a formidable challenge in Rh catalysis. Monometallic Rh catalysts provide poor oxygenate conversion efficiency, and efforts have been focused on constructing adjacent polymetallic sites; however, the one-pass yields of C2+ oxygenates over the reported Rh-based catalysts were mostly <20 %. In this study, we constructed a monometallic Rh catalyst encapsulated in UiO-67 (Rh/UiO-67) with enhanced proximity to dual-site Rh1,2-Rhn ensembles. Unexpectedly, this catalyst exhibited high efficacy for oxygenate synthesis from syngas, giving a high oxygenate selectivity of 72.0 % with a remarkable CO conversion of 50.4 %, and the one-pass yield of C2+ oxygenates exceeded 25 %. The state-of-the-art characterizations further revealed the spontaneous formation of an ensemble of Rh single atoms/dimers (Rh1,2) in the proximity of ultrasmall Rh clusters (Rhn) confined within the nanocavity of UiO-67, providing adjacent Rh+-Rh0 dual sites dynamically during the reaction that promote the relay of the undissociated CHO species to the CHx species. Thus, our results open a new route for designing highly efficient Rh catalysts for the conversion of syngas to oxygenates by precisely tuning the ensemble and proximity of the dual active sites in a confined space.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) - (2024) vom: 20. März, Seite e202401568

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yu, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Tingting [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Qingqing [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Han, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Li, Gonghui [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Qiangsheng [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Ye [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xinping [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Xueqing [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Bing [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Dongsen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Dual Active Sites
Enhanced Proximity
Journal Article
Monometallic Rh Catalyst
Syngas Conversion to Oxygenates
UiO-67

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Date Revised 09.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1002/anie.202401568

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NLM36995789X