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Abstract
Complex organic molecules are of great importance to research and industrial chemistry and typically synthesized from smaller building blocks by multistep reactions. The ability to perform multiple (distinct) transformations in a single reactor would greatly reduce the number of manipulations required for chemical manufacturing, and hence the development of multifunctional catalysts for such one-pot reactions is highly desirable. Here we report the synthesis of a hierarchically porous framework, in which the macropores are selectively functionalized with a sulfated zirconia solid acid coating, while the mesopores are selectively functionalized with MgO solid base nanoparticles. Active site compartmentalization and substrate channelling protects base-catalysed triacylglyceride transesterification from poisoning by free fatty acid impurities (even at 50 mol%), and promotes the efficient two-step cascade deacetalization-Knoevenagel condensation of dimethyl acetals to cyanoates. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 921-931 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Nature Catalysis |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2020 |
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- 2 Finished
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Shale Rock Characterization using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Johns, M. (Investigator 01), May, E. (Investigator 02) & Seltzer, S. (Investigator 03)
ARC Australian Research Council , Chevron Australia Pty Ltd
17/09/18 → 16/09/22
Project: Research
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The Australian Centre for LNG Futures
May, E. (Investigator 01), Johns, M. (Investigator 02), Pareek, V. (Investigator 03), Tade, M. (Investigator 04), Aman, Z. (Investigator 05), Li, G. (Investigator 06), Shang, J. (Investigator 07) & Rufford, T. (Investigator 08)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/15 → 15/04/21
Project: Research
Prizes
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Nature Catalysis front cover
Robinson, N. (Recipient) & Johns, M. (Recipient), Nov 2020
Prize: Other distinction
Research output
- 96 Citations
- 1 Comment/debate
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Publisher Correction: A spatially orthogonal hierarchically porous acid–base catalyst for cascade and antagonistic reactions (Nature Catalysis, (2020), 3, 11, (921-931), 10.1038/s41929-020-00526-5)
Isaacs, M. A., Parlett, C. M. A., Robinson, N., Durndell, L. J., Manayil, J. C., Beaumont, S. K., Jiang, S., Hondow, N. S., Lamb, A. C., Jampaiah, D., Johns, M. L., Wilson, K. & Lee, A. F., Nov 2020, In: Nature Catalysis. 3, 11, 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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