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Plasma-Assisted Synthesis of Monodispersed and Robust Ruthenium Ultrafine Nanocatalysts for Organosilane Oxidation and Oxygen Evolution Reactions

We report a facile and general approach for preparing ultrafine ruthenium nanocatalysts by using a plasma-assisted synthesis at 2 supports. This gives robust catalysts with excellent activities in both organosilane oxidation and the oxygen evolution reaction.

Steady state and time-resolved spectroscopic studies of the photochemistry of 1-arylsilacyclobutanes and the chemistry of 1-arylsilenes

Direct photolysis of 1-phenylsilacyclobutane and 1-phenyl-, 1-(2-phenylethynyl)-, and 1-(4'-biphenylyl)-1-methylsilacyclobutane in hexane solution leads to the formation of ethylene and the corresponding 1-arylsilenes, which have been trapped by photolysis in the presence of methanol. Quantum yields for photolysis of the three methyl-substituted compounds have been determined to be 0.04, 0.26, and 0.29, respectively, using the photolysis of 1,1-diphenylsilacyclobutane (Φ(silene) = 0.21) as the actinometer. The corresponding silenes have been detected by laser flash photolysis; they have lifetimes of several microseconds, exhibit UV absorption maxima ranging from 315 to 330 nm, and react with methanol with rate constants on the order of (2-5) x 109 M-1 s-1 in hexane. Absolute rate constants for reaction of 1-phenylsilene and 1-methyl-1-phenylsilene with water, methanol, tert-butanol, and acetic acid in acetonitrile solution have been determined, and are compared to those of 1,1-diphenylsilene under the same conditions. With the phenylethynyl- and biphenyl-substituted methylsilacyclobutanes, the triplet states can also be detected by laser flash photolysis, and are shown to not be involved in silene formation on the basis of triplet sensitization and (or) quenching experiments. Fluorescence emission spectra and singlet lifetimes have been determined for the three 1-aryl-1-methylsilacyclobutanes, 1,1-diphenylsilacyclobutane, and a series of acyclic arylmethylsilane model compounds. These data, along with the reaction quantum yields, allow estimates to be made of the rate constants for the excited singlet state reaction responsible for silene formation. 1-Methyl-1-phenylsilacyclobutane undergoes reaction from its lowest excited singlet state with a rate constant 10-80 times lower than those of the other three derivatives. The results are consistent with a stepwise mechanism for silene formation, involving a 1,4-biradicaloid intermediate that partitions between product and starting material.

Conversion of hydrosilanes to alkoxysilanes catalyzed by Cp2TiCl2/nBuLi

The combination of Cp2TiCl2 and nBuLi provides an effective catalyst for alcoholysis of the model silanes n-HexSiH3, PhMeSiH2, Ph2SiH2 and PhMe2SiH by ethanol, isopropanol, t-butyl alcohol and phenol.Increasing the steric bulk of the substituents on either the alcohol or the silane generally requires longer reaction periods and/or increasing temperature.All SiH bonds are converted to SiOEt groups by ethanol and a single SiH bond in secondary silanes and two SiH bonds in tertiary silanes are replaced by t-butyl alcohol.Diols including pinacol, 2,4-pentanediol and 2,5-hexanediol react with PhRSiH2 (R = Me, Ph) to give 1,3-dioxa-2-silacyclopentanes, -hexanes and -heptanes, respectively.Attempts to form caged structures by condensation of primary silanes and triols was unsuccessful.Hydrolysis of PhRSiH2 is promoted by Cp2TiCl2/n-BuLi and the siloxane is produced in quantitative yield when R = Ph and a mixture of linear disiloxanes and trisiloxanes in addition to cyclopolysilanes are produced when R = Me.Other protic reagents including acids, mercaptans, amines and enolizable ketones did not react.The effects of reaction parameters such as temperature, silane to catalyst ratio, solvent, transition metal and replacements for nBuLi were also determined.