Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Tuning the selectivity of catalytic nitriles hydrogenation by structure regulation in atomically dispersed Pd catalysts

  • Zhibo Liu,
  • Fei Huang,
  • Mi Peng,
  • Yunlei Chen,
  • Xiangbin Cai,
  • Linlin Wang,
  • Zenan Hu,
  • Xiaodong Wen,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Dequan Xiao,
  • Hong Jiang,
  • Hongbin Sun,
  • Hongyang Liu,
  • Ding Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26542-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The selective hydrogenation of nitriles to prepare corresponding amines is highly desired in chemistry industry. Here, the authors selectively obtained secondary amines and primary amines over two types of atomically dispersed Pd catalysts supported on the nanodiamond-graphene hybrid support.