An efficient nickel catalyst for the reduction of carbon dioxide with a borane

Sumit Chakraborty; Jie Zhang; Jeanette A Krause; Hairong Guan

doi:10.1021/ja103982t

An efficient nickel catalyst for the reduction of carbon dioxide with a borane

J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Jul 7;132(26):8872-3. doi: 10.1021/ja103982t.

Authors

Sumit Chakraborty¹, Jie Zhang, Jeanette A Krause, Hairong Guan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0172, USA.

PMID: 20540579
DOI: 10.1021/ja103982t

Abstract

Nickel hydride with a diphosphinite-based ligand catalyzes the highly efficient reduction of CO(2) with catecholborane, and the hydrolysis of the resulting methoxyboryl species produces CH(3)OH in good yield. The mechanism involves a nickel formate, formaldehyde, and a nickel methoxide as different reduced stages for CO(2). The reaction may also be catalyzed by an air-stable nickel formate.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Boranes / chemistry*
Carbon Dioxide / chemistry*
Catalysis
Kinetics
Nickel / chemistry*
Oxidation-Reduction
Temperature

Substances

Boranes
Carbon Dioxide
Nickel