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Immobilization and Study of Homogeneous Catalysts in a Continuous Flow Reactor Using Inorganic Particles Coated with Polymer

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We demonstrated that organometallic catalysts can be immobilized in a gas-phase packed bed reactor (PBR) by coating inorganic particles with a non-volatile polymer-catalyst solution. We validated the methodology through a case study on the ethanol coupling reaction (Guerbet reaction) catalyzed by a ruthenium pincer complex and on the hydrogenation of hexene catalyzed by an iridium complex. Our implementation of this technique serves to inspire the adoption of advanced reactor engineering strategies for the study of homogeneous catalysts.

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  1. For batch reactions, the [EtOH] in PEG is 0.87 M. This value was calculated using initial substrate loadings. Under flow in our PBR and CSTR, the [EtOH] is ca. 0.25 M. This value Was determined by simulating the VLE for a PEG/EtOH mixture in CHEMCAD(SRK).

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Major funding for the 500 MHz Bruker CryoProbe was provided by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust (Muscatine, Iowa; Grant #15-4521) to the School of Chemical Sciences NMR Lab.

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Wang, N.M., Dillon, S. & Guironnet, D. Immobilization and Study of Homogeneous Catalysts in a Continuous Flow Reactor Using Inorganic Particles Coated with Polymer. Catal Lett 153, 1150–1158 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-022-04056-6

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