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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 34, Pages 7622-7630Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202000142
Keywords
half-sandwich complexes; mechanistic studies; nanoparticles; N-heterocyclic carbenes; ruthenium; transfer hydrogenation
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- SERB (New Delhi) [EMR/2015/001853]
- UGC-New Delhi
- CSIR-New Delhi
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Tethered and untethered ruthenium half-sandwich complexes were synthesized and characterized spectroscopically. X-ray crystallographic analysis of three untethered and two tethered Ru N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes were also carried out. These RuNHC complexes catalyze transfer hydrogenation of aromatic ketones in 2-propanol under reflux, optimally in the presence of (25 mol %) KOH. Under these conditions, the formation of 2-3 nm-sized Ru-0 nanoparticles was detected by TEM measurements. A solid-state NMR investigation of the nanoparticles suggested that the NHC ligands were bound to the surface of the Ru nanoparticles (NPs). This base-promoted route to NHC-stabilized ruthenium nanoparticles directly from arene-tethered ruthenium-NHC complexes and from untethered ruthenium-NHC complexes is more convenient than previously known routes to NHC-stabilized Ru nanocatalysts. Similar catalytically active RuNPs were also generated from the reaction of a mixture of [RuCl2(p-cymene)](2) and the NHC precursor with KOH in isopropanol under reflux. The transfer hydrogenation catalyzed by these NHC-stabilized RuNPs possess a high turnover number. The catalytic efficiency was significantly reduced if nanoparticles were exposed to air or allowed to aggregate and precipitate by cooling the reaction mixtures during the reaction.
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