A stable single-site palladium catalyst for hydrogenations.

Vilé G; Albani D; Nachtegaal M; Chen Z; Dontsova D; Antonietti M; López N; Pérez-Ramírez J

doi:10.1002/anie.201505073

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A stable single-site palladium catalyst for hydrogenations.

Vilé G Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093 Zurich (Switzerland).
Albani D Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093 Zurich (Switzerland).
Nachtegaal M Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen (Switzerland).
Chen Z Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Colloid Chemistry, Research Campus Golm, 14424 Potsdam (Germany).
Dontsova D Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Colloid Chemistry, Research Campus Golm, 14424 Potsdam (Germany).
Antonietti M Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Colloid Chemistry, Research Campus Golm, 14424 Potsdam (Germany).
López N Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona (Spain). nlopez@iciq.es.
Pérez-Ramírez J Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093 Zurich (Switzerland). jpr@chem.ethz.ch.

2015-08-01

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Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). - 2015

Microscopy, Electron, Scanning Transmission

English We report the preparation and hydrogenation performance of a single-site palladium catalyst that was obtained by the anchoring of Pd atoms into the cavities of mesoporous polymeric graphitic carbon nitride. The characterization of the material confirmed the atomic dispersion of the palladium phase throughout the sample. The catalyst was applied for three-phase hydrogenations of alkynes and nitroarenes in a continuous-flow reactor, showing its high activity and product selectivity in comparison with benchmark catalysts based on nanoparticles. Density functional theory calculations provided fundamental insights into the material structure and attributed the high catalyst activity and selectivity to the facile hydrogen activation and hydrocarbon adsorption on atomically dispersed Pd sites.

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