Solid‐State NMR of Heterogeneous Catalysts

Recent advances in solid‐state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, combined with dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), quantum chemical DFT calculations, and gas‐phase NMR spectroscopy investigating the structure and reactivity of heterogeneous catalysts are reviewed. The investigated catalysts range from classical mononuclear catalysts, like immobilized derivates of Wilkinson's catalysts over binuclear catalysts such as the dirhodium paddlewheel catalyst to catalytic nanoparticles, employing various support materials, such as mesoporous silica gels, coordination polymers, and biomaterials such as cellulose.

Solid-state NMR combined with DNP, DFT calculations, and gas-phase NMR has emerged as an efficient tool to investigate the structure and reactivity of supported heterogeneous catalysts. This review presents some of the latest discoveries in this field showing a number of heterogeneous catalysts ranging from mono- and binuclear catalysts to catalytic nanoparticles and gives a short outlook into future developments.