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Carbonate-Promoted Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Multicarbon Carboxylates.


ABSTRACT: CO2 hydrogenation is a potential alternative to conventional petrochemical methods for making commodity chemicals and fuels. Research in this area has focused mostly on transition-metal-based catalysts. Here we show that hydrated alkali carbonates promote CO2 hydrogenation to formate, oxalate, and other C2+ carboxylates at elevated temperature and pressure in the absence of transition-metal catalysts or solvent. The reactions proceed rapidly, reaching up to 56% yield (with respect to CO32-) within minutes. Isotope labeling experiments indicate facile H2 and C-H deprotonations in the alkali cation-rich reaction media and identify probable intermediates for the C-C bond formations leading to the various C2+ products. The carboxylate salts are in equilibrium with volatile carboxylic acids under CO2 hydrogenation conditions, which may enable catalytic carboxylic acid syntheses. Our results provide a foundation for base-promoted and base-catalyzed CO2 hydrogenation processes that could complement existing approaches.

SUBMITTER: Banerjee A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5968515 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Carbonate-Promoted Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Multicarbon Carboxylates.

Banerjee Aanindeeta A   Kanan Matthew W MW  

ACS central science 20180430 5


CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation is a potential alternative to conventional petrochemical methods for making commodity chemicals and fuels. Research in this area has focused mostly on transition-metal-based catalysts. Here we show that hydrated alkali carbonates promote CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation to formate, oxalate, and other C<sub>2+</sub> carboxylates at elevated temperature and pressure in the absence of transition-metal catalysts or solvent. The reactions proceed rapidly, reaching up to 56% y  ...[more]

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