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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 41, Pages 13180-13187Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201201542
Keywords
carbon; catalysis; nanostructures; nanoreactor; regioselectivity; rhodium
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- European Science Foundation
- European Research Council
- Royal Society
- University of Nottingham
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/G005060/1]
- EPSRC [EP/G005060/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G005060/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Hollow graphitized carbon nanofibres (GNF) are employed as nanoscale reaction vessels for the hydrosilylation of alkynes. The effects of confinement in GNF on the regioselectivity of addition to triple carboncarbon bonds are explored. A systematic comparison of the catalytic activities of Rh and RhPt nanoparticles embedded in a nanoreactor with free-standing and surface-adsorbed nanoparticles reveals key mechanisms governing the regioselectivity. Directions of reactions inside GNF are largely controlled by the non-covalent interactions between reactant molecules and the nanofibre channel. The specific pp interactions increase the local concentration of the aromatic reactant and thus promote the formation of the E isomer of the beta-addition product. In contrast, the presence of aromatic groups on both reactants (silane and alkyne) reverses the effect of confinement and favours the formation of the Z isomer due to enhanced interactions between aromatic groups in the cis-orientation with the internal graphitic step-edges of GNF. The importance of pp interactions is confirmed by studying transformations of aliphatic reactants that show no measurable changes in regioselectivity upon confinement in carbon nanoreactors.
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