Mingwei Wen
Chinese Academy of Sciences
5 Papers
110 Citations
Mingwei Wen is an academic researcher from Chinese Academy of Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Catalysis & Chemistry. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications.
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Papers
Computational Mechanistic Study of the Hydrogenation of Carbonate to Methanol Catalyzed by the RuIIPNN Complex
TL;DR: The study indicates that the methanol product could facilitate the hydrogen activation involved in the transformation, implying that transformation could be accelerated by initially adding meethanol.
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Computational Insight into the Mechanism of Selective Imine Formation from Alcohol and Amine Catalyzed by the Ruthenium(II)-PNP Pincer Complex
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used density functional theory computations to investigate the mechanism of the reaction of an amine with a primary alcohol catalyzed by the ruthenium(II)-PNP pincer complex.
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Density Functional Theory Mechanistic Study of the Reduction of CO2 to CH4 Catalyzed by an Ammonium Hydridoborate Ion Pair: CO2 Activation via Formation of a Formic Acid Entity
TL;DR: The computed CO2 activation mechanism agrees with the experimental synthesis of 2 via reacting HCOOH with TMP/B(C6F5)3, and the hydride-transfer mechanism is different from that in the CO2 reduction to methanol, where NHC and [Ni]H catalysts can only mediate the reduction of CO2 to [Si]OCH3 and catBOCH3, respectively.
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Catalytic metal-free intramolecular hydroaminations of non-activated aminoalkenes: A computational exploration
TL;DR: Experimental efforts are called to synthesize cat1-cat3 or similar new molecules on the basis of the design strategy, and the hydroaminations of am2 and am3 have energetics comparable with am1 hydroamination, the am5 hydroamination is energetically less favorable, and is least favorable but could be realizable by elevating the temperature and pressure.
Computational mechanistic study of Ru-catalyzed CO2 reduction by pinacolborane revealing the σ-π coupling mechanism for CO2 decarbonylation.
TL;DR: The study identified the key active catalyst to be the hydride 13 (RuH2(CO)(PCy3)2) and characterized the mechanisms leading to the experimentally observed species, learning a new mechanism called σ-π coupling for CO2 decarbonylation.
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