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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 58, Issue 35, Pages 12032-12036Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201904452
Keywords
plasmonic metal nanoparticles; product selectivity; reaction pathway; selective adsorption; visible-light photocatalysis
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Product selectivity of alkyne hydroamination over catalytic Au2Co alloy nanoparticles (NPs) can be made switchable by a light-on/light-off process, yielding imine (cross-coupling product of aniline and alkyne) under visible-light irradiation, but 1,4-diphenylbutadiyne in the dark. The low-flux light irradiation concentrates aniline on the catalyst, accelerating the catalytic cross-coupling by several orders of magnitude even at a very low overall aniline concentrations (1.0x10(-3) mol L-1). A tentative mechanism is that Au2Co NPs absorb light, generating an intense fringing electromagnetic field and hot electrons. The sharp field-gradient (plasmonic optical force) can selectively enhance adsorption of light-polarizable aniline molecules on the catalyst. The light irradiation thereby alters the aniline/alkyne ratio at the NPs surface, switching product selectivity. This represents a new paradigm to modify a catalysis process by light.
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