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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c08258
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- National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Excellent Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation
- Foundation of Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials
- [22225109]
- [92061101]
- [22271104]
- [BK20211593]
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In this study, four stable thorium clusters modified with different functionalized capping ligands were designed and constructed to explore their structural and functional properties in catalytic reactions. The results demonstrated that the selectivity and conversion of catalytic reaction products can be effectively modulated by switchable functional ligands, providing a new design avenue for more efficient thorium cluster catalysts.
Structural exploration and functional application of thorium clusters are still very rare on account of their difficult synthesis caused by the susceptible hydrolysis of thorium element. In this work, we elaborately designed and constructed four stable thorium clusters modified with different functionalized capping ligands, Th6-MA, Th6-BEN, Th6-C8A, and Th6-Fcc, which possessed nearly the same hexanuclear thorium-oxo core but different capabilities in light absorption and charge separation. Consequently, for the first time, these new thorium clusters were treated as model catalysts to systematically investigate the light induced oxidative coupling reaction of benzylamine and thermodriven oxidation of aniline, achieving >90% product selectivity and approximately 100% conversion, respectively. Concurrently, we found that thorium clusters modified by switchable functional ligands can effectively modulate the selectivity and conversion of catalytic reaction products. Moreover, catalytic characterization and density functional theory calculations consistently indicated that these thorium clusters can activate O2/H2O2 to generate active intermediates O2 center dot-/HOO center dot and then improved the conversion of amines efficiently. Significantly, this work represents the first report of stable thorium clusters applied to photo/thermotriggered catalytic reactions and puts forward a new design avenue for the construction of more efficient thorium cluster catalysts.
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