Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Atomic-level insights in optimizing reaction paths for hydroformylation reaction over Rh/CoO single-atom catalyst

  • Liangbing Wang,
  • Wenbo Zhang,
  • Shenpeng Wang,
  • Zehua Gao,
  • Zhiheng Luo,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Rui Zeng,
  • Aowen Li,
  • Hongliang Li,
  • Menglin Wang,
  • Xusheng Zheng,
  • Junfa Zhu,
  • Wenhua Zhang,
  • Chao Ma,
  • Rui Si,
  • Jie Zeng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14036
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Despite the advantages of using heterogeneous catalysts, most successful rhodium hydrogenations are carried out with homogeneous catalysts. Here the authors report a supported single atom rhodium catalyst providing high activities and selectivities for propene hydroformylation.