Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Pt1 enhanced C-H activation synergistic with Ptn catalysis for glycerol cascade oxidation to glyceric acid

  • Zhe An,
  • Zilong Zhang,
  • Zeyu Huang,
  • Hongbo Han,
  • Binbin Song,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Qi Ping,
  • Yanru Zhu,
  • Hongyan Song,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Lirong Zheng,
  • Jing He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33038-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The selective oxidation of glycerol to glyceric acid is an important value-added cascade catalytic process. Here the authors report a cascade synergistic catalysis strategy by atomic and low-coordinated cluster Pt on well-defined Cu-CuZrOx to simultaneously achieve high activity and selectivity.