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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 116, Issue 47, Pages 24855-24867Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp3071585
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- Spanish MICINN
- Generalitat Valenciana [2088/130]
- ITQ
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The nature of the active sites involved in the gold catalyzed Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction between iodobenzene and phenylacetylene, and in the competitive homocoupling reactions, has been investigated by means of DFT calculations, kinetic measurements, and synthesis of catalysts with different gold surface species. Several catalyst models have been theoretically investigated to simulate gold nanoparticles of different size either isolated, supported on inert materials, or supported on CeO2. The mechanistic studies show that 113 dissociation occurs on low coordinated Au-0 atoms present in small gold nanoparticles, either isolated or supported, while PA is preferentially adsorbed and activated on Au delta+ species existing at the metal-support interface. When this occurs, the activation energy of the rate-determining step of the Sonogashira reaction, which has been found experimentally to be the bimolecular coupling, is minimized The product distribution obtained with Au/CeO2 catalysts containing different ratios of Au-0/Au delta+ sites confirms the positive role played by cationic gold in the Sonogashira cross coupling reaction. Importantly, only metallic Au atoms present in gold nanoparticles are required to perform the homocoupling of iodobenzene.
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