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Synthesis of Densely Packaged, Ultrasmall Pt 0 2 Clusters within a Thioether‐Functionalized MOF: Catalytic Activity in Industrial Reactions at Low Temperature
Author(s) -
Mon Marta,
RiveroCrespo Miguel A.,
FerrandoSoria Jesús,
VidalMoya Alejandro,
Boronat Mercedes,
LeyvaPérez Antonio,
Corma Avelino,
HernándezGarrido Juan C.,
LópezHaro Miguel,
Calvino José J.,
Ragazzon Giulio,
Credi Alberto,
Armentano Donatella,
Pardo Emilio
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201801957
Subject(s) - methanation , catalysis , thioether , alkene , chemistry , metal , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , materials science , organic chemistry , engineering
Abstract The gram‐scale synthesis, stabilization, and characterization of well‐defined ultrasmall subnanometric catalytic clusters on solids is a challenge. The chemical synthesis and X‐ray snapshots of Pt 0 2 clusters, homogenously distributed and densely packaged within the channels of a metal–organic framework, is presented. This hybrid material catalyzes efficiently, and even more importantly from an economic and environmental viewpoint, at low temperature (25 to 140 °C), energetically costly industrial reactions in the gas phase such as HCN production, CO 2 methanation, and alkene hydrogenations. These results open the way for the design of precisely defined catalytically active ultrasmall metal clusters in solids for technically easier, cheaper, and dramatically less‐dangerous industrial reactions.