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Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, UMR 5253 CNRS/UM2/ENSCM/UM1, ENSCM, 8 rue de l'Ecole Normale, 34296 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organo Metallici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 1378-1384
DOI:
10.1039/C2DT31690K
Received
26 Jul 2012,
Accepted
27 Sep 2012
First published online
03 Oct 2012
Well-dispersed Pd nanoparticles have been synthesized inside the mesoporosity of a silica monolith featuring hierarchical porosity of homogeneous interconnected macropores (4 microns) and mesopores (11 nm). These monoliths have been implemented as microreactors for selective hydrogenation reactions. Conversion and selectivity can be tuned by adjusting the flow rates of hydrogen and substrates. In the selective hydrogenation of cyclooctadiene, a conversion of 95% and a selectivity of 90% in the monohydrogenated product, constant over a period of 70 h, have been reached. These figures correspond to a productivity of 4.2 mmol s−1 g−1MonoSil (or 0.32 mol s−1 g−1Pd). In the stereoselective hydrogenation of 3-hexyn-1-ol a constant conversion of 85% was observed, with however moderate selectivity into the cis isomer, over a test period of 7 h. These results open the route to the synthesis of important chemicals and intermediates via safe and green processes.
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