Well-Defined Molybdenum Oxo Alkyl Complex Supported on Silica by Surface Organometallic Chemistry: A Highly Active Olefin Metathesis Precatalyst

Nicolas Merle*, Frédéric Le Quéméner, Yassine Bouhoute, Kai C. Szeto, Aimery De Mallmann, Samir Barman, Manoja K. Samantaray, Laurent Delevoye, Régis M. Gauvin, Mostafa Taoufik, Jean Marie Basset

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2144-2147
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume139
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Feb 2017
Externally publishedYes

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

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