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Title: Homogeneous catalysis under ultra-dilute conditions: TAML/NaClO oxidation of persistent metaldehyde
Authors: Kanda, R
Tang, LL
Denardo, MA
Schuler, CJ
Mills, MR
Gayathri, C
Gil, RR
Collins, TJ
Issue Date: 6-Dec-2016
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Citation: Tang LL, DeNardo MA, Schuler CJ, Mills MR, Gayathri C, Gil RR, Kanda R, Collins TJ. Homogeneous Catalysis Under Ultradilute Conditions: TAML/NaClO Oxidation of Persistent Metaldehyde. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2017 Jan 18;139(2):879-87.
Abstract: TAML activators enable homogenous oxidation catalysis where the catalyst and substrate (S) are ultra-dilute (pM–low μM) and the oxidant is very dilute (high nM–low mM). Water contamination by exceptionally persistent micropollutants (MPs), including metaldehyde (Met), provides an ideal space for determining the characteristics and utilitarian limits of this ultradilute catalysis. The low MP concentrations decrease throughout catalysis with S oxidation (kII) and catalyst inactivation (ki) competing for the active catalyst. The percentage of substrate converted (%Cvn) can be increased by discovering methods to increase kII/ki. Here we show that NaClO extends catalyst lifetime to increase the Met turnover number (TON) threefold compared with H2O2, highlighting the importance of oxidant choice as a design tool in TAML systems. Met oxidation studies (pH 7, D2O, 0.01 M phosphate, 25 °C) monitored by 1H NMR spectroscopy show benign acetic acid as the only significant product. Analysis of TAML/NaClO treated Met solutions employing successive identical catalyst doses revealed that the processes can be modeled by the recently published relationship between the initial and final [S] (S0 and S∞, respectively), the initial [catalyst] (FeTot) and kII/ki. Consequently, this study establishes that S is proportional to S0 and that the %Cvn is conserved across all catalyst doses in multicatalyst-dose processes because the rate of the kII process depends on [S] while that of the ki process does not. A general tool for determining the FeTot required to effect a desired %Cvn is presented. Examination of the dependence of TON on kII/ki and FeTot at a fixed S0 indicates that for any TAML process employing FeTot < 1 10-6 M, small catalyst doses are not more efficient than one large dose.
Description: This document is the unedited Author’s version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b11145
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13713
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b11145
ISSN: 0002-7863
Appears in Collections:Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers

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