Novel catalysts for hydrogen production

INOR 443

Melanie C. Denney1, Vincent Pons, vpons@lanl.gov2, Brandon Dietrich, dietrib@u.washington.edu1, Denise Mery, denise.mery@free.fr1, Karen I. Goldberg, goldberg@chem.washington.edu1, and D. Michael Heinekey1. (1) Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, (2) Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS J514, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Ammonia-borane (H3NBH3) is currently under consideration as a hydrogen storage material which would meet the challenging restrictions necessary for use in automobile applications. Transition metal complexes have been employed as homogenous catalysts for alkane dehydrogenation reactions. Since ammonia-borane is isoelectric with alkanes, such complexes may be efficient catalysts for the dehydrogenation of ammonia-borane. Herein, we present our recent work on the dehydrogenation of ammonia-borane with different catalysts.

 

Organometallic: Catalysis
9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, 11 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Room 310, Oral

Division of Inorganic Chemistry

The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006