Quasi Pd1Ni single-atom surface alloy catalyst enables hydrogenation of nitriles to secondary amines

While nitrile hydrogenation may provide an appealing means to obtain secondary amines, poor selectivity plagues heterogeneous catalysts. Here, authors report single-atom palladium on nickel catalysts to afford high yields of secondary amines from a broad range of parent nitriles.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hengwei Wang, Qiquan Luo, Wei Liu, Yue Lin, Qiaoqiao Guan, Xusheng Zheng, Haibin Pan, Junfa Zhu, Zhihu Sun, Shiqiang Wei, Jinlong Yang, Junling Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12993-x