Alkali metals on nanoporous carbon: new solid-base catalysts

Abstract

Caesium entrapped in nanoporous carbon is not pyrophoric, is thermally stable towards desorption up to 773 K, but retains its ability to produce hydrogen from water, and is a strong basic catalyst, providing a greater than 9:1 ratio of the less stable cis-but-2-ene over the trans isomer in the isomerization of but-1-ene at 273 K.