The carbothermal synthesis of monometallic and bimetallic molybdenum carbide copper supported on high surface area graphite, has been studied at 600 700 °C characterised. catalysts were tested for CO2 hydrogenation to CH3OH.

In Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS), a variety of hydrocarbons with different chain lengths are formed. The selectivities depend on the catalyst and reaction conditions. Co-feeding olefins allows changing selectivity even outside rules Anderson-Schulz-Flory distribution. this work, ethene, propene, 1-butene were co-fed to Co-Mn-catalyzed FTS increase olefin in C3- C8-fraction. An CO rate oxygena...

Power to formic acid via CO2 hydrogenation or electrochemical reduction has great potential enable a complete cycle with power for the storage and utilization of low-carbon electricity at scale multi-gigatonnes per year.

A system for transfer hydrogenation of alkenes, composed of a ruthenium metathesis catalyst and HCOOH, is presented. This operationally simple system can be formed directly after a metathesis reaction to effect hydrogenation of the metathesis product in a single-pot. These hydrogenation conditions are applicable to a wide range of alkenes and offer remarkable selectivity.

Asymmetric hydrogenation is one of the most important enantioselective reactions. Although the hydrogenation, transfer hydrogenation, and hydrosilylation of various substrates in the presence of metal catalysts have been described, the asymmetric reduction of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds still represents a great challenge. This situation is particularly true for the enantioselective hy...

Hydrogenation of unsaturated organosulfur compounds is an essential process through which these species are converted into cleaner and more useful compounds. Hydrogen bronze materials have been demonstrated to be efficient catalysts in hydrogenation of simple unsaturated compounds. Herein, we performed density functional theory calculations to investigate hydrogenation of thiophene on hydrogen ...

An efficient palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of fluorinated aromatic pyrazol-5-ols has been developed via capture of the active tautomers. A wide variety of 2,5-disubstituted and 2,4,5-trisubstituted pyrazolidinones have been synthesized with up to 96% and 95% ee, respectively. The hydrogenation pathway includes Brønsted acid promoted tautomerization of pyrazol-5-ols and Pd-catalyz...

Mg2NiH4 is a promising hydrogen storage material with fast de hydrogenation kinetics. Its hydrogen desorption enthalpy, however, is too large for practical applications. In this paper we study the effects of transition metal doping by first-principles density functional theory calculations. We show that the hydrogen desorption enthalpy can be reduced by 0.1 eV/H2 if one in eight Ni atoms is rep...

Cu–Ga catalysts are potential candidates for activating the selective and stable hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol dimethyl ether. This work explores structure–function relationship in specific Cu–Ga/CeO 2 –ZrO with different Ga loadings. Combining experiments density functional theory calculations, we find most well-balanced interphase (structure) promote mechanistic pathways reactio...

In-situ liquid-phase hydrogenation of m-chloronitrobenzene (m-CNB) based on aqueous-phase reforming (APR) of ethanol and catalytic hydrogenation was carried out over Fe-modified Pt/carbon nanotubes (CNTs) catalysts. The effects of Pt loading over CNTs and Fe modification on the catalytic performance of Pt/CNTs catalysts were studied. In-tube loading of Pt particles, compared with out-tube loadi...