Nature Communications (May 2022)

Breaking scaling relationships in alkynol semi-hydrogenation by manipulating interstitial atoms in Pd with d-electron gain

  • Yang Yang,
  • Xiaojuan Zhu,
  • Lili Wang,
  • Junyu Lang,
  • Guohua Yao,
  • Tian Qin,
  • Zhouhong Ren,
  • Liwei Chen,
  • Xi Liu,
  • Wei Li,
  • Ying Wan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30540-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Circumventing the linear scaling relationship in the semi-hydrogenation is challenging. Here the authors report a method for breaking the scaling relationships using ordered mesoporous carbon-supported Pd nanocatalysts with d-electron gain by p-block atoms occupying interstitial sites in the lattice as a greener alternative to Lindlar catalysts for the selective hydrogenation of alkynols.