Issue 4, 2017

Quantifying the efficiency of CO2 capture by Lewis pairs

Abstract

A microfluidic strategy has been used for the time- and labour-efficient evaluation of the relative efficiency and thermodynamic parameters of CO2 binding by three Lewis acid/base combinations, where efficiency is based on the amount of CO2 taken up per binding unit in solution. Neither tBu3P nor B(C6F5)3 were independently effective at CO2 capture, and the combination of the imidazolin-2-ylidenamino-substituted phosphine (NIiPr)3P and B(C6F5)3 was equally ineffective. Nonetheless, an archetypal frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) comprised of tBu3P and B(C6F5)3 was shown to bind CO2 more efficiently than either the FLP derived from tetramethylpiperidine (TMP) and B(C6F5)3 or the highly basic phosphine (NIiPr)3P. Moreover, the proposed microfluidic platform was used to elucidate the thermodynamic parameters for these reactions.

Graphical abstract: Quantifying the efficiency of CO2 capture by Lewis pairs

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
21 Dec 2016
Accepted
17 Feb 2017
First published
20 Feb 2017
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Chem. Sci., 2017,8, 3270-3275

Quantifying the efficiency of CO2 capture by Lewis pairs

J. J. Chi, T. C. Johnstone, D. Voicu, P. Mehlmann, F. Dielmann, E. Kumacheva and D. W. Stephan, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 3270 DOI: 10.1039/C6SC05607E

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