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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202302832
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density functional theory; inorganic reaction mechanisms; CO2 reduction; iron; homogeneous catalysis
The study demonstrates how CO2 and H-2 can be reacted to produce methanol and highlights the crucial steps in the reaction mechanism. Calculations predict that the reaction proceeds through three cycles, requiring high pressure to overcome H-2 cleavage, and the ligand scaffold plays an important role in the reaction mechanism.
CO2 utilization is an important process in the chemical industry with great environmental power. In this work we show how CO2 and H-2 can be reacted to form methanol on an iron(II) center and highlight the bottlenecks for the reaction and what structural features of the catalyst are essential for efficient turnover. The calculations predict the reactions to proceed through three successive reaction cycles that start with heterolytic cleavage of H-2 followed by sequential hydride and proton transfer processes. The H-2 splitting process is an endergonic process and hence high pressures will be needed to overcome this step and trigger the hydrogenation reaction. Moreover, H-2 cleavage into a hydride and proton requires a metal to bind hydride and a nearby source to bind the proton, such as an amide or pyrazolyl group, which the scorpionate ligand used here facilitates. As such the computations highlight the non-innocence of the ligand scaffold through proton shuttle from H-2 to substrate as an important step in the reaction mechanism.
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