Hexakis [60]Fullerene Adduct-Mediated Covalent Assembly of Ruthenium Nanoparticles and Their Catalytic Properties

Faqiang Leng; Iann C Gerber; Pierre Lecante; Ahmed Bentaleb; Antonio Muñoz; Beatriz M Illescas; Nazario Martín; Georgian Melinte; Ovidiu Ersen; Hervé Martinez; M Rosa Axet; Philippe Serp

doi:10.1002/chem.201701043

Hexakis [60]Fullerene Adduct-Mediated Covalent Assembly of Ruthenium Nanoparticles and Their Catalytic Properties

Chemistry. 2017 Sep 27;23(54):13379-13386. doi: 10.1002/chem.201701043. Epub 2017 Aug 29.

Authors

Faqiang Leng^{1

2}, Iann C Gerber³, Pierre Lecante⁴, Ahmed Bentaleb⁵, Antonio Muñoz⁶, Beatriz M Illescas⁶, Nazario Martín^{6

7}, Georgian Melinte⁸, Ovidiu Ersen⁸, Hervé Martinez⁹, M Rosa Axet^{1

2}, Philippe Serp^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ CNRS, LCC (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination), Composante ENSIACET, 4 allée Emile Monso, BP 44099, 31030, Toulouse Cedex 4, France.
² Université de Toulouse, UPS, INPT, 31077, Toulouse Cedex 4, France.
³ LPCNO, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INSA, UPS, 135 avenue de Rangueil, 31077, Toulouse, France.
⁴ Centre d'élaboration des matériaux et d'études structurales, UPR CNRS 801, 29 Rue Jeanne-Marvig, BP 4347, 31055, Toulouse, France Toulouse Cedex 4, France.
⁵ Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal-, CNRS University of Bordeaux, 115 avenue Schweitzer, 33600, Pessac, France.
⁶ Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
⁷ IMDEA-Nanoscience, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
⁸ IPCMS, UMR 7504, Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, 23 rue du Loess, BP 43, 67034, Strasbourg Cedex 2, France.
⁹ IPREM CNRS UMR 5254, Helioparc Pau-Pyrénée, 2 Av du Pdt Angot, 64053, Pau Cedex, France.

PMID: 28543998
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701043

Abstract

The C₆₆ (COOH)₁₂ hexa-adduct has been successfully used as a building block to construct carboxylate bridged 3D networks with very homogeneous sub-1.8 nm ruthenium nanoparticles. The obtained nanostructures are active in nitrobenzene selective hydrogenation.

Keywords: C60; fullerenes; hydrogenation; nanomaterials; ruthenium.