Electrostatic Catalysis of a Click Reaction in a Microfluidic Cell

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Electrostatic Catalysis of a Click Reaction in a Microfluidic Cell
المؤلفون: Sevim, Semih, Franco, Carlos, Aragonès, Albert C., Darwish, Nadim, Kim, Donghoon, Picca, Rosaria Anna, Nelson, Bradley J., Pané, Salvador, Díez-Pérez, Ismael, Puigmartí-Luis, Josep
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Chemical Physics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: Electric fields have been highlighted as a smart reagent in nature's enzymatic machinery, as they can directly trigger or accelerate redox and/or non-redox chemical processes with stereo- and regio-specificity. In natural catalysis, controlled mass transport of chemical species in confined spaces is also key in facilitating the transport of reactants into the active reaction site. Despite the opportunities the above offers in developing strategies for a new, clean electrostatic catalysis exploiting oriented electric fields, research in this area has been mostly limited to theoretical and experimental studies at the level of single molecules or small molecular ensembles, where both the control over mass transport and scalability cannot be tested. Here, we quantify the electrostatic catalysis of a prototypical Huisgen cycloaddition in a large-area electrode surface and directly compare its performance to the traditional Cu(I)-catalyzed method of the same reaction. Mass diffusion control is achieved in a custom-built microfluidic cell, which enhances reagent transport towards the electrified reactive interface while avoiding both turbulent flow conditions and poor control of the convective mass transport. This unprecedented electrostatic continuous-flow microfluidic reactor is an example of an electric-field driven platform where clean large-scale electrostatic catalytic processes can be efficiently implemented and regulated.
Comment: Main Manuscript part includes 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table and Supporting Information part includes 20 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09743
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2209.09743
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv