Materials Today Energy, volume 26, pages 100998

Cucurbit[6]uril as a co-catalyst for hydrogen production from formic acid

Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2022-06-01
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Abstract
Cucurbiturils are organic macrocycles, which are only rarely used for catalytic reactions. We studied a composite comprising of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), cucurbit[6]uril (CB6) and Au species and demonstrated that CB6 is a co-catalyst for hydrogen production from formic acid. Thus, insertion of CB6 into SWCNTs with open tips provides a decrease of the reaction temperatures by 60 K as compared to those over pure SWCNTs. This indicates that CB6 is a metal-free catalyst for this reaction. The use of CB6 during the synthesis of Au catalysts supported on SWCNTs leads to even a stronger decrease of the reaction temperature by 110 K as compared to the Au/SWCNTs catalyst. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that these effects could be explained by abstraction of the hydrogen atom from the hydroxyl group of the formic acid molecule on the basic carbonyl portal of the CB6 molecule with the formation of the formate containing adduct. Unusual sandwich-like structures of Au were formed inside the SWCNTs channels due to the interaction of Au with CB6. The results create a base for the development of catalysts containing cucurbiturils for the energy related reactions taking place through the hydrogen abstraction from reactant molecules. • AuCB6/SWCNTs and Au/SWCNTs catalysts were used for hydrogen production from HCOOH. • Reaction rate for AuCB6/SWCNTs was by a factor of 50 higher than that for Au/SWCNTs. • CB6 was a co-catalyst for hydrogen production from decomposition of formic acid in gas phase. • CB6 formed an adduct [CB6H + ][HCOO − ] with HCOOH. • Unusual sandwich-like structures of Au with CB6 were formed inside the SWCNTs channels.

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BULUSHEV D. et al. Cucurbit[6]uril as a co-catalyst for hydrogen production from formic acid // Materials Today Energy. 2022. Vol. 26. p. 100998.
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BULUSHEV D., Chekhova G. N., Sobolev V. I., Chuvilin A., Fedoseeva Y. V., Gerasko O. A., Okotrub A. V., Bulusheva L. G. Cucurbit[6]uril as a co-catalyst for hydrogen production from formic acid // Materials Today Energy. 2022. Vol. 26. p. 100998.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100998
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.mtener.2022.100998
TI - Cucurbit[6]uril as a co-catalyst for hydrogen production from formic acid
T2 - Materials Today Energy
AU - BULUSHEV, D
AU - Chekhova, Galina N
AU - Sobolev, Vladimir I
AU - Chuvilin, Andrey
AU - Fedoseeva, Yu. V.
AU - Gerasko, Olga A
AU - Okotrub, A. V.
AU - Bulusheva, Lyubov G.
PY - 2022
DA - 2022/06/01 00:00:00
PB - Elsevier
SP - 100998
VL - 26
SN - 2468-6069
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@article{2022_BULUSHEV,
author = {D BULUSHEV and Galina N Chekhova and Vladimir I Sobolev and Andrey Chuvilin and Yu. V. Fedoseeva and Olga A Gerasko and A. V. Okotrub and Lyubov G. Bulusheva},
title = {Cucurbit[6]uril as a co-catalyst for hydrogen production from formic acid},
journal = {Materials Today Energy},
year = {2022},
volume = {26},
publisher = {Elsevier},
month = {jun},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.mtener.2022.100998},
pages = {100998},
doi = {10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100998}
}
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