Abstract
The well-defined silica-supported molybdenum oxo alkyl species (SiO−)MoO(CH2tBu)3 was selectively prepared by grafting of MoO(CH2tBu)3Cl onto partially dehydroxylated silica (silica700) using the surface organometallic chemistry approach. This surface species was fully characterized by elemental analysis and DRIFT, solid-state NMR, and EXAFS spectroscopy. This new material is related to the active species of industrial supported MoO3/SiO2 olefin metathesis catalysts. It displays very high activity in propene self-metathesis at mild (turnover number = 90 000 after 25 h). Remarkably, its catalytic performance outpaces those of the parent imido derivative and its tungsten oxo analogue.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2144-2147 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Volume | 139 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 15 Feb 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank the Competitive Research Grant Program, supported by the KAUST Research Fund (Project 2174 CGR3), and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-12-BS07-0021-01, OXOCAT) for their financial support and Olivier Mathon for his help during the recording of the XAS spectra on beamline BM23 at ESRF (experiment code IN-986).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Chemical Society.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Catalysis
- General Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Colloid and Surface Chemistry