TY - JOUR
T1 - Illuminating Initial Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation during the Early Stages of Methane Dehydroaromatization.
AU - Caglayan, Mustafa
AU - Paioni, Alessandra Lucini
AU - Abou-Hamad, Edy
AU - Shterk, Genrikh
AU - Pustovarenko, Alexey
AU - Baldus, Marc
AU - Chowdhury, Abhishek Dutta
AU - Gascon, Jorge
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: Funding for this work was provided by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). ADC also thanks the starting grant support from IAS, Wuhan University. ALP was supported by a TOPPUNT grant (no. 718.015.001) to M.B. from Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO).
PY - 2020/6/11
Y1 - 2020/6/11
N2 - Still in 2020, methane dehydroaromatization (MDA) is among the most challenging processes in catalysis science due to the inherent harsh reaction conditions and fast catalyst deactivation. To improve it further, understanding the initial C-C bond formation mechanism is sine qua non. However, consensus about the actual reaction mechanism is still to be achieved. In this work, using advanced magic angle spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR spectroscopy, we study in detail the early stages of the reaction over a well-dispersed Mo/H-ZSM-5 catalyst. Simultaneous detection of acetylene (i.e., presumably the direct C-C bond forming product from methane), methylidene, allenes, acetal and surface-formate species along with the typical olefinic/aromatic species allow us to conclude the existence of two independent C-H activation pathways. Moreover, this study emphasizes the significance of mobility-dependent host-guest chemistry between inorganic zeolite and its organic trapped species during heterogeneous catalysis.
AB - Still in 2020, methane dehydroaromatization (MDA) is among the most challenging processes in catalysis science due to the inherent harsh reaction conditions and fast catalyst deactivation. To improve it further, understanding the initial C-C bond formation mechanism is sine qua non. However, consensus about the actual reaction mechanism is still to be achieved. In this work, using advanced magic angle spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR spectroscopy, we study in detail the early stages of the reaction over a well-dispersed Mo/H-ZSM-5 catalyst. Simultaneous detection of acetylene (i.e., presumably the direct C-C bond forming product from methane), methylidene, allenes, acetal and surface-formate species along with the typical olefinic/aromatic species allow us to conclude the existence of two independent C-H activation pathways. Moreover, this study emphasizes the significance of mobility-dependent host-guest chemistry between inorganic zeolite and its organic trapped species during heterogeneous catalysis.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/663540
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202007283
U2 - 10.1002/anie.202007283
DO - 10.1002/anie.202007283
M3 - Article
C2 - 32521078
SN - 1433-7851
JO - Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
JF - Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
ER -