Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2,5-dihydroxymethylfuran (DHMF) or other species, such as 2,5-dimethylfuran, on solid metal electrodes in neutral media is addressed, both in the absence and in the presence of glucose. The reaction is studied by combining voltammetry with on-line product analysis by using HPLC, which provides both qualitative and quantitative i...

Keywords: Model catalysis Nickel Palladium Platinum d-band Ethylene de-/hydrogenation a b s t r a c t Ethylene hydrogenation catalyzed at 300 K by 1–1.5 nm nanoparticles of Ni, Pd and Pt supported on MgO (1 0 0) with a narrow size-distribution, as well as the deactivation under reaction conditions at 400 K, was investigated with pulsed molecular beam experiments. Ni nanoparticles deactivate rea...

Optically active six-membered rings such as cyclohexanes and piperidines play an important role as biologically active building blocks and key intermediates in organic chemistry. Catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds is one of themost straightforward routes for the formation of these saturated or partially saturated molecules. Recently, tremendous progress ...

K-promoted Fe–Co bimetallic catalysts fabricated by a straightforward sol–gel approach exhibited outstanding catalytic performance for one step selective hydrogenation of CO 2 into high value-added liquid hydrocarbons with C 10 –C 20 linear α-olefins.

The central governing factors that influence the efficiency of photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting reaction are photon absorption, effective charge-carrier separation, and surface electrochemistry. Attempts to improve one of the three factors may debilitate other factors and we explore such issues in hydrogenated TiO2, wherein a significant increase in optical absorption has not resulted...

In article number 2001231, Pérez-Ramírez and co-workers devise a method using microfabricated model catalysts custom-designed reactor to decouple the contribution of metal-oxide interfaces in Cu-ZnO for methanol synthesis via CO CO2 hydrogenation under process-relevant conditions.

the hydrogenation characterizations of the hydrogen storage alloy mmni4.22co0.48mn0.15al0.15 (mm= mischmetal), and the effect of hydrogenation/dehydrogenation (h/d) cycling on its structural and morphological properties are investigated. the results indicate that after several h/d cycles the alloy was pulverized into fine particles, but it kept its hexagonal cacu5-type structure. the pressure-c...

The goal of this study was to optimize the activation behaviour of hydrogen storage alloy TiFe. We found that the addition of a small amount of Zr in TiFe alloy greatly reduces the hydrogenation activation time. Two different procedural synthesis methods were applied: co-melt, where the TiFe was melted and afterward re-melted with the addition of Zr, and single-melt, where Ti, Fe and Zr were me...

The particle sizes and metal support interactions play a pivotal role in Fischer Tropsch synthesis. Herein, promoter-embedded Co/TiO2 mesoporous nanocomposites with high surface area were synthesized through templated assisted solvothermal method comprising highly dispersed spherical shaped Co nanoparticles on titania of less than 10 nm. Moreover, synthesis aqueous media, rather wax-slurry, is ...