Cooperative catalysis for the direct hydrodeoxygenation of vegetable oils into diesel-range alkanes over Pd/NbOPO4

Qineng Xia; Xiaojing Zhuang; Molly Meng-Jung Li; Yung-Kang Peng; Guoliang Liu; Tai-Sing Wu; Yun-Liang Soo; Xue-Qing Gong; Yanqin Wang; Shik Chi Edman Tsang

doi:10.1039/C5CC10419J

Cooperative catalysis for the direct hydrodeoxygenation of vegetable oils into diesel-range alkanes over Pd/NbOPO₄†

Qineng Xia,^ab Xiaojing Zhuang,^b Molly Meng-Jung Li,^a Yung-Kang Peng,^a Guoliang Liu,^a Tai-Sing Wu,^c Yun-Liang Soo,^c Xue-Qing Gong,^b Yanqin Wang^b and Shik Chi Edman Tsang*^a

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^a Wolfson Catalysis Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
E-mail: edman.tsang@chem.ox.ac.uk

^b Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis, East China University of Science of Technology, Shanghai, P. R. China

^c Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

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Near quantitative carbon yields of diesel-range alkanes were achieved from the hydrodeoxygenation of triglycerides over Pd/NbOPO₄ under mild conditions with no catalyst deactivation: catalyst characterization and theoretical calculations suggest that the high hydrodeoxygenation activity originated from the synergistic effect of Pd and strong Lewis acidity on the unique structure of NbOPO₄.

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Cooperative catalysis for the direct hydrodeoxygenation of vegetable oils into diesel-range alkanes over Pd/NbOPO₄†

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