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Bimetallic AuPt/TiO2Catalysts for Direct Oxidation of Glucose and Gluconic Acid to Tartaric Acid in the Presence of Molecular O2
Ding, Jie,Jin, Xin,Lai, Linyi,Liu, Mengyuan,Sun, Yu,Wang, Jinyao,Xia, Qi,Yan, Hao,Yang, Chaohe,Zhang, Guangyu,Zhang, Wenxiang
, p. 10932 - 10945 (2020)
Tartaric acid is an important industrial building block in the food and polymer industry. However, green manufacture of tartaric acid remains a grand challenge in this area. To date, chemical synthesis from nitric acid-facilitated glucose oxidation leads to only a one-pot aqueous-phase oxidation of glucose and gluconic acid using bimetallic AuPt/TiO2 catalysts in the presence of molecular O2, with ～50% yield toward tartaric acid at 110 °C and 2 MPa. Structural characterization and density functional theory (DFT) calculation reveal that the lattice mismatch between fcc Pt and bcc Au induces the formation of twinned boundaries in nanoclusters and Jahn-Teller distortion in an electronic field. Such structural and electronic reconfiguration leads to enhanced σ-activation of the C-H bond competing with π-πelectronic sharing of the C═O bond on the catalyst surface. As a result, both C-H (oxidation) and C-C (decarboxylation) bond cleavage reactions synergistically occur on the surface of bimetallic AuPt/TiO2 catalysts. Therefore, glucose and gluconic acid can be efficiently transformed into tartaric acid in a base-free medium. Lattice distortion-enhanced reconfiguration of the electronic field in Pt-based bimetallic nanocatalysts can be utilized in many other energy and environmental fields for catalyzing synergistic oxidation reactions.
