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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 144, Issue 18, Pages 8129-8137Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00548
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- European Research Council under the European Union [725686]
- NWO Domain Science
- NWO
- Priority 2030 Federal Academic Leadership Program
- European Research Council (ERC) [725686] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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This study demonstrates that additives in homogeneously catalyzed reactions can indirectly participate in catalysis by adjusting the thermodynamics of key transformations. It suggests that reaction promotors should be considered as an integral component of the reaction medium, capable of improving catalytic performance and reshaping the catalytic transformation thermodynamics.
Homogeneously catalyzed reactions often make use of additives and promotors that affect reactivity patterns and improve catalytic performance. While the role of reaction promotors is often discussed in view of their chemical reactivity, we demonstrate that they can be involved in catalysis indirectly. In particular, we demonstrate that promotors can adjust the thermodynamics of key transformations in homogeneous hydrogenation catalysis and enable reactions that would be unfavorable otherwise. We identified this phenomenon in a set of well-established and new Mn pincer catalysts that suffer from persistent product inhibition in ester hydrogenation. Although alkoxide base additives do not directly participate in inhibitory transformations, they can affect the equilibrium constants of these processes. Experimentally, we confirm that by varying the base promotor concentration one can control catalyst speciation and inflict substantial changes to the standard free energies of the key steps in the catalytic cycle. Despite the fact that the latter are universally assumed to be constant, we demonstrate that reaction thermodynamics and catalyst state are subject to external control. These results suggest that reaction promotors can be viewed as an integral component of the reaction medium, on its own capable of improving the catalytic performance and reshaping the seemingly rigid thermodynamic landscape of the catalytic transformation.
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