Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Ligand-induced substrate steering and reshaping of [Ag2(H)]+ scaffold for selective CO2 extrusion from formic acid

  • Athanasios Zavras,
  • George N. Khairallah,
  • Marjan Krstić,
  • Marion Girod,
  • Steven Daly,
  • Rodolphe Antoine,
  • Philippe Maitre,
  • Roger J. Mulder,
  • Stefanie-Ann Alexander,
  • Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký,
  • Philippe Dugourd,
  • Richard A. J. O’Hair

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11746
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Designing catalysts and understanding the influence of ligands for particular transformations remains a highly challenging task. Here, the authors show that bisphosphine ligands can alter the geometry of the active site in silver catalysts, driving protonation and ultimately extrusion of carbon dioxide from formic acid.