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Formic acid as a hydrogen source – recent developments and future trends

Gabor Laurenczy, Martin Grasemann

Formic acid has recently been suggested as a promising hydrogen storage material. The basic concept is briefly discussed and the recent advances in the development of formic acid dehydrogenation catalysts are shown. Both the state of research for heterogen ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2012

The water-soluble cluster cation [H3Ru3(C6H6)(C6Me6)(2)(O)](+): Improved synthesis, aerobic oxidation, electrochemical properties and ligand exchange studies

Gabor Laurenczy

The synthesis of the trinuclear cluster cation H3RU3(C6H6)(C6Me6)(2)(O) (1) has been considerably improved by changes in the NaBH4 addition step and by introducing chromatographic methods; in addition, the redox and ligand exchange properties of 1 hav ...

2005

Cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides catalyzed by imidazolium-based polymeric ionic liquids

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Emilia Paunescu, Huizhen Liu

A series of cross-linked ionic polymers based on styrene-functionalized imidazolium salts with chloride, hexafluorophosphate, or tetrafluoroborate counter anions have been prepared and characterized using a range of analytical and spectroscopic techniques ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Heterogeneous Silica-Supported Ruthenium Phosphine Catalysts for Selective Formic Acid Decomposition

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Weijia Gan

The water-soluble ruthenium(II)–mTPPTS complex (mTPPTS= meta-trisulfonated triphenylphosphine) efficiently catalyzes the generation of hydrogen from formic acid in aqueous solution. This catalyst has been immobilized in a hydrophilic silica sup- port to fa ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2013

Synthesis of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids with the Weakly Coordinating [Al(ORF)4]- Anion (RF=C(H)(CF3)2) and the Determination of Their Principal Physical Properties

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Safak Bulut

A large series of ionic liqs. (ILs) based on the weakly coordinating alkoxyaluminate [Al(hfip)4]- (hfip: hexafluoroisopropoxy) with classical as well as functionalized cations were prepd., and their principal phys. properties detd. M.ps. are between 0 ([C4 ...

2010

Aqueous phase carbon dioxide and bicarbonate hydrogenation catalyzed by cyclopentadienyl ruthenium complexes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Antoine Dorcier

The water-sol. ruthenium(II) complexes [Cp'RuX(PTA)2]Y and [CpRuCl(PPh3)(mPTA)]OTf (Cp' = Cp, Cp*, X = Cl and Y = nil; or X = MeCN and Y = PF6; PTA = 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane; mPTA = 1-methyl-1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane) were used as catalyst ...

2007

In vitro and in vivo evaluation of ruthenium(II)-arene PTA complexes

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Claudine Scolaro

The antitumor activity of the organometallic ruthenium(II)-arene complexes, RuCl2(eta(6)-arene)(PTA), (arene = p-cymene, toluene, benzene, benzo-15-crown-5, 1-ethylbenzene-2,3-dimethylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, ethyl benzoate, hexamethylbenzene; PTA = ...

2005

Quantitative aqueous phase formic acid dehydrogenation using iron(II) based catalysts

Gabor Laurenczy, Andrew Francis Dalebrook, Mickael Montandon-Clerc

We present here the results of our investigation on aqueous phase formic acid (FA) dehydrogenation using non-noble metal based pre-catalysts. This required the synthesis of m-trisulfonated-tris[2-(diphe nylphosphino)ethyl]phosphine sodium salt (PP3TS) as a ...

Elsevier2016

Towards a frustrated Lewis pair-ionic liquid system

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Gabor Laurenczy, Zhaofu Fei, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Emilia Paunescu, Florian Gérald Abela

An ionic liquid encompassing a bulky tertiary amine was synthesized and used as a dual solvent-reactant for the formation of a frustrated Lewis pair with tris(pentafluorophenyl) borane, forming a pseudo-frustrated Lewis pair-ionic liquid system. The ionic ...

Elsevier2018

Hydrocarboxylation of Terminal Alkenes in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Gabor Laurenczy

The catalytic hydrocarboxylation of linear alkenes to carboxylic acids using supercritical carbon dioxide as a solvent was studied. High selectivities in acids have been obtained. The best results were achieved when adding a perfluorinated surfactant to th ...

2008

Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Catalysed by Tris(TPPTS) Ruthenium Species: Mechanism of the Initial "Fast" Cycle

Gabor Laurenczy, Andrew Francis Dalebrook

Water-soluble ruthenium m-triphenylphosphinetrisulfonate (TPPTS) complexes are excellent catalysts for formic acid dehydrogenation. Interestingly, the choice of metal catalyst precursor has a direct influence on initial activities. The reaction with hexaaq ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2014

Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid over a Homogeneous Ru-TPPTS Catalyst: Unwanted CO Production and Its Successful Removal by PROX

Gabor Laurenczy, Nordahl Autissier

Formic acid (FA) is considered as a potential durable energy carrier. It contains ~4.4 wt % of hydrogen (or 53 g/L) which can be catalytically released and converted to electricity using a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell. Although various catalyst ...

2017

Method for producing methanol from carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas in homogeneously catalyzed reactions and in an aqueous medium

Gabor Laurenczy, Katerina Stefania Sordakis

The invention relates to a method for producing methanol from hydrogen and carbon dioxide gas in homogeneously catalyzed reactions, composed of the carbon dioxide hydrogenation reaction to formic acid and the formic acid disproportionation reaction into me ...

2017

Synthesis and characterization of new water-soluble hydrides of Ru-II: A step towards dinitrogen activation?

Gabor Laurenczy

The basic aqueous coordination chemistry of Ru-II has been studied using the catalytically important TPPTS phosphine (TPPTS = trisodium salt of 3,3 ',3 ''-phosphinetriylbenzenesulfonic acid) and small gas molecules (H-2, CO, N-2) as ligands. As a result, n ...

2005

A TiO2/Nb2O5 center dot nH(2)O heterojunction catalyst for conversion of glucose into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in water

Fangmin Huang, Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Zhaofu Fei

A series of water-tolerant Lewis acidic TiO2/Nb2O5 center dot nH(2)O heterojunction catalysts with different Ti : Nb ratios have been prepared and investigated in the conversion of glucose into HMF in water. Under optimized conditions (i.e. 150 degrees C, ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Crystallisation of inorganic salts containing 18-crown-6 from ionic liquids

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Gabor Laurenczy, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan

Reaction of the zwitterionic imidazolium salt [(CH2COOH)(CH2COO)i.m.] with K2CO3 or BaO in the presence of 18-crown-6 affords the salts [(CH2COO)2i.m.][K(18-crown-6)] and [(CH2COO)2i.m.]2[Ba(18-crown-6)]. Recrystn. of these crown complexes from the ionic l ...

Elsevier2010

Chemical Equilibria in Formic Acid/Amine-CO2 Cycles under Isochoric Conditions using a Ruthenium(II) 1,2-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane Catalyst

Gabor Laurenczy, Katerina Stefania Sordakis

The equilibrium position in formic acid/amine–CO2 systems has been examined as a function of pressure and tem- perature under isochoric conditions. The homogeneous ruthe- nium(II)-1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane catalyst was active in both reactions, that ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2014

Intricacies of Cation-Anion Combinations in Imidazolium Salt-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of CO2 Into Epoxides

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Martin Hulla, Dmitry Vasilyev, Florent Menoud

The cycloaddition of CO2 into epoxides catalyzed by imidazolium and related salts continues to attract attention due to the industrial importance of the cyclic carbonate products. The mechanism of the imidazolium-catalyzed transformation has been proposed ...

2018

Chelating NHC Ruthenium(II) Complexes as Robust Homogeneous Hydrogenation Catalysts

Gabor Laurenczy, Antonia Neels

A series of ruthenium(II) N-heterocyclic carbene chelate complexes were prepd. by using bidentate chelating alkene-carbene, thioether-carbene, carboxylate-carbene and bis-carbene ligands. Metalation of 1-R-3-X-imidazolium salts (1-3, R = Me, X = allyl, MeS ...

2009

Investigation of Hydrogenation of Formic Acid to Methanol using H2 or Formic Acid as a Hydrogen Source

Gabor Laurenczy, Katerina Stefania Sordakis

Production of methanol (MeOH) from CO2 is strongly desired as a key chemical feedstock and a fuel. However, the conventional process requires elevated temperature and pressure, and high temperature restricts the productivity of MeOH due to equilibrium limi ...

American Chemical Society2017