Cellulose is the most abundant, renewable carbohydrate resources in nature, providing human society a broad spread of materials for production and living. Comparing with the mature textile and paper industries,...
Methylation of amines is increasingly employed as a powerful structure modification tool in medicinal chemistry, however, selectively accessing the mono- or di- methylated amines with integrated catalytic system remains a...
Frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) have been increasingly
utilized as
metal-free catalysts for manufacturing pharmaceutical and agricultural
products with strict control of metal residues. However, the moisture
sensitivity and homogeneity of typical FLPs significantly inhibit
their practical applications and, meanwhile, stimulate the development
of heterogeneous catalysts capable of addressing these issues. In
this work, we report a flexible approach to fabricate borane–nitrogen
containing phenolic organic microspheres (BNPs), severing as a new,
moisture-tolerant, and bench-stable heterogeneous FLP catalyst for
molecular hydrogen activation for selective hydrogenation of structurally
diverse terminal alkynes to the respective alkenes. Mechanistic studies
further revealed a heterolytic hydrogen splitting process, in which
the in situ formation of active hydroborane species was involved.
Given the wild applicability of FLP, our protocol, thus, paves a way
for advancing BNPs as a new member of the heterogeneous FLP family
for catalysis.
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