Volume 127, Issue 7 pp. 2080-2084
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Inverse Kinetic Solvent Isotope Effect in TiO2 Photocatalytic Dehalogenation of Non-adsorbable Aromatic Halides: A Proton-Induced Pathway

Dr. Wei Chang

Dr. Wei Chang

Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)

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Dr. Chunyan Sun

Dr. Chunyan Sun

Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)

Department of Chemistry, Shaoxing University, Zhejiang Shaoxing 312000 (China)

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Dr. Xibin Pang

Dr. Xibin Pang

Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)

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Dr. Hua Sheng

Dr. Hua Sheng

Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)

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Dr. Yue Li

Dr. Yue Li

Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)

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Prof. Hongwei Ji

Prof. Hongwei Ji

Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)

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Prof. Wenjing Song

Prof. Wenjing Song

Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)

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Prof. Chuncheng Chen

Prof. Chuncheng Chen

Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)

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Prof. Wanhong Ma

Corresponding Author

Prof. Wanhong Ma

Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)

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Prof. Jincai Zhao

Corresponding Author

Prof. Jincai Zhao

Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)

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First published: 21 December 2014
Citations: 11

We thank the National Basic Research Program of China (973 program No. 2013CB632405), the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21137004, 21221002, 21277147 and 21377134), the “Strategic Priority Research Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDA09030200), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences for financial support. We also wish to thank Dr. Yun Shen and Dr. Minyang Zhuang for helpful advice.

Abstract

An efficient redox reaction between organic substrates in solution and photoinduced h+vb/ecb on the surface of photocatalysts requires the substrates or solvent to be adsorbed onto the surface, and is consequentially marked by a normal kinetic solvent isotope effect (KSIE≥1). Reported herein is a universal inverse KSIE (0.6–0.8 at 298 K) for the reductive dehalogenation of aromatic halides which cannot adsorb onto TiO2 in a [D0]methanol/[D4]methanol solution. Combined with in situ ATR-FTIR spectroscopy investigations, a previously unknown pathway for the transformation of these aromatic halides in TiO2 photocatalysis was identified: a proton adduct intermediate, induced by released H+/D+ from solvent oxidation, accompanies a change in hybridization from sp2 to sp3 at a carbon atom of the aromatic halides. The protonation event leads these aromatic halides to adsorb onto the TiO2 surface and an ET reaction to form dehalogenated products follows.

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