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Acidity enhancement through synergy of penta- and tetra-coordinated aluminum species in amorphous silica networks.

  • Wang Z Laboratory for Catalysis Engineering, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
  • Li T Institute for Materials & ZGH, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany.
  • Jiang Y Department of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.
  • Lafon O Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8181, UCCS-Unité de Catalyse et de Chimie du Solide, F-59000, Lille, France.
  • Liu Z Laboratory for Catalysis Engineering, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
  • Trébosc J Univ. Lille, CNRS, INRA, Centrale Lille, ENSCL, Univ. Artois, FR 2638 - IMEC - Institut Michel-Eugène Chevreul, F-59000, Lille, France.
  • Baiker A Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH, Zürich, Hönggerberg, HCI, CH-8093, Switzerland.
  • Amoureux JP Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8181, UCCS-Unité de Catalyse et de Chimie du Solide, F-59000, Lille, France. jean-paul.amoureux@univ-lille.fr.
  • Huang J Laboratory for Catalysis Engineering, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia. jun.huang@sydney.edu.au.
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  • 2020-01-15
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  • Nature communications. - 2020
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Physics and Astronomy
General Chemistry
English Amorphous silica-aluminas (ASAs) are widely used in acid-catalyzed C-H activation reactions and biomass conversions in large scale, which can be promoted by increasing the strength of surface Brønsted acid sites (BAS). Here, we demonstrate the first observation on a synergistic effect caused by two neighboring Al centers interacting with the same silanol group in flame-made ASAs with high Al content. The two close Al centers decrease the electron density on the silanol oxygen and thereby enhance its acidity, which is comparable to that of dealuminated zeolites, while ASAs with small or moderate Al contents provide mainly moderate acidity, much lower than that of zeolites. The ASAs with enhanced acidity exhibit outstanding performances in C-H bond activation of benzene and glucose dehydration to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, simultaneously with an excellent calcination stability and resistance to leaching, and they offer an interesting potential for a wide range of acid and multifunctional catalysis.
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