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Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Nanotube Confined Co–N x Sites for Selective Hydrogenation of Biomass‐Derived Compounds
Author(s) -
Gong Wanbing,
Lin Yue,
Chen Chun,
AlMamun Mohammad,
Lu HaiSheng,
Wang Guozhong,
Zhang Haimin,
Zhao Huijun
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201808341
Subject(s) - catalysis , biomass (ecology) , selectivity , materials science , carbon nanotube , carbon fibers , aldehyde , nanoparticle , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , inorganic chemistry , chemistry , composite number , oceanography , composite material , engineering , geology
Biomass is the most abundant renewable resource on earth and developing high‐performance nonprecious selective hydrogenation (SH) catalysts will enable the use of biomass to replace rapidly diminishing fossil resources. This work utilizes ZIF‐67‐derived nitrogen‐doped carbon nanotubes to confine Co nanoparticles (NPs) with Co–N x active sites as a high‐performance SH catalyst. The confined Co NPs with Co–N x exhibit excellent catalytic activity, selectivity, and stability toward a wide range of biomass‐derived compounds. Such active sites can selectively hydrogenate aldehyde, ketone, carboxyl, and nitro groups of biomass‐derived compounds into value‐added fine chemicals with 100% selectivity. The reported approach could be adopted to create other forms of catalytically active sites from other nonprecious metals.