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Isostructural Molecular and Surface Mimics of the Active Sites of the Industrial WO3/SiO2 Metathesis Catalysts
journal contribution
posted on 2015-11-06, 00:00 authored by Victor Mougel, Christophe CopéretIn
classical, ill-defined WO3/SiO2 alkene
metathesis catalysts, isolated, silica-supported tungsten oxo alkylidene
species are suspected to represent the catalytically active species.
Here, we report the synthesis and the characterization of molecular
and supported isostructural mimics of these active sites. The good
activities at room temperature of these well-defined oxo alkylidene
complexes indicate that the lower activity of WO3/SiO2, even after preactivation, is likely due to the difficulty
to generate active alkylidene sites from W oxo species in the classical
system.