Manipulating interstitial carbon atoms in the nickel octahedral site for highly efficient hydrogenation of alkyne

Design and synthesis of non-noble metal catalysts is crucial for highly-efficient hydrogenation. Here, the interstitial sites in nickel are manipulated with zinc and filled by dissociated carbon atoms, which drastically improve the selectivity/stability in acetylene hydrogenation reaction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yiming Niu, Xing Huang, Yongzhao Wang, Ming Xu, Junnan Chen, Shuliang Xu, Marc-Georg Willinger, Wei Zhang, Min Wei, Bingsen Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17188-3