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Formation of HCO+ ion by protonation of carbon monoxide in zeolites: the origin of catalytic activity in methanol carbonylation

30 July 2021, Version 1
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Abstract

We show that CO can be protonated by Brønsted acid sites to form the super-electrophilic HCO+ cation in H-zeolites such as mordenite. This reactivity stems from the confining environment of small 8-ring side pockets of H-MOR. HCO+ is a catalytically active super-electrophile: it carbonylates dimethyl ether and hydrocarbons to methyl acetate and aldehydes.

Keywords

carbon monoxide protonation
zeolite
methanol and dimethyl ether carbonylation
carbon monoxide CO chemistry in zeolites

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DOI

10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-lpb2g
D O I: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-lpb2g [opens in a new tab]

Funding

The research described in paper is part of the Quickstarter Initiative at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. It was conducted under the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at PNNL, a multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830. The research described in this paper was performed in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a national scientific user facility sponsored by the DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research. This work was supported by US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Biosciences, and Geosciences.

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