N-doped graphene used as an efficient electron donor of iron catalysts for CO hydrogenation can achieve a high selectivity of around 50% for light olefins, significantly superior to the selectivity of iron catalysts on conventional carbon materials, e.g. carbon black with a selectivity of around 30% at the same reaction conditions.

A novel pentacoordinate mono iron dicarbonyl complex bearing a nitrogen heterocyclic carbene ligand was reported as a model of a [Fe]-hydrogenase active site, which exhibits interesting proton coupled CO binding reactivity, electro-catalytic proton reduction and catalytic transfer hydrogenation reactivity.

The astronomical gas-phase detection of simple species and small organic molecules in cold pre-stellar cores, with abundances as high as ~10-10 nH, contradicts the generally accepted idea that at 10 K, such species should be fully frozen out on grain surfaces. A physical or chemical mechanism that results in a net transfer from solid-state species into the gas-phase offers a possible explanatio...

Abstract In this study, a series of Co-based catalysts with alkali metal carbonate promoters were prepared to investigate the interrelation between promotion effect these carbonates and catalytic performance for aniline hydrogenation cyclohexylamine in vapour phase. The chemical Li 2 CO 3 Na2CO leading decrease activity cobalt hydrogenation. Catalysts K Cs2CO loadings have practically no anilin...

All scientific approaches to the origin of life share a common problem: a chemical path to lipids as main constituents of extant cellular enclosures. Here we show by isotope-controlled experiments that unsaturated C3,5,7,9-monocarboxylic acids form by one-pot reaction of acetylene (C2H2) and carbon monoxide (CO) in contact with nickel sulfide (NiS) in hot aqueous medium. The primary products ar...

A bis-cyclometalated iridium(III) complex with metal-centered chirality catalyzes the enantioselective transfer hydrogenation of ketones with high enantioselectivities at low catalyst loadings down to 0.002 mol%. Importantly, the rate of catalysis and enantioselectivity are markedly improved in the presence of a pyrazole co-ligand. The reaction is proposed to proceed via an iridium-hydride inte...

Isolated Cu2+ ions actively participate in CO2 hydrogenation. The reduced form dispersed Cu sites which adsorb H2 where CuAl2O4 CO2.

The 2-electron reduced form of the polyoxometalate silicotungstic acid (H4[SiW12O4]) is shown to be an effective and selective hydrogenation agent for a range of nitroarenes without the need for any co-catalyst. The ease of generation of the active species and its recyclability suggest that a new approach to this important class of chemical conversions is possible.

The self-assembly of metal–organosilicate shells on silica substrates and their derived CuZn-catalysts for MeOH synthesis from CO 2 hydrogenation.

H-ZSM5, Zn/H-ZSM5, and Co/H-ZSM5 catalyze thiophene desulfurization with high H2S selectivity using propane as the exclusive hydrogen source. Desulfurization rates and selectivities were much higher than at the H2 concentrations present during propane reactions. Zn+2 and Co+2 cations at exchange sites increased desulfurization rates. On H-ZSM5, desulfurization rates and selectivities with propa...