Computational mechanistic study of the hydrogenation of carbonate to methanol catalyzed by the Ru(II)PNN complex

Inorganic Chemistry
Haixia LiZhi-Xiang Wang

Abstract

Density functional theory computations have been carried out to study the mechanism of hydrogenation-based transformation of dimethyl carbonate to methanol, catalyzed by Ru(II)PNN catalyst. The energetic results show that the catalytic transformation includes three sequential stages consistently involving the catalyst: (stage I) transformation of dimethyl carbonate (3) to methyl formate (5) and methanol; (stage II) transformation of methyl formate 5 to formaldehyde and methanol; (stage III) hydrogenation of formaldehyde to methanol. Stages I and II proceed similarly and follow three steps: hydrogen activation, formation of a hemiacetal intermediate via stepwise hydrogen transfer to dimethyl carbonate in stage I or methyl fomate in stage II, and subsequent decomposition of the hemiacetal intermediate to afford methanol. Hydrogenation via carbonyl insertion into the Ru-H bond is less favorable than the stepwise hydrogen-transfer mechanism. Decomposition of hemiacetal takes places by first breaking the hemiacetal O-H bond to give an alkoxide complex, followed by deprotonation of the benzylic arm ligand to the adjacent methoxy group. Comparing the hydrogenation steps in the three stages, hydrogenation in stage I is most difficult, ...Continue Reading

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