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Efficient Imine Formation by Oxidative Coupling at Low Temperature Catalyzed by High‐Surface‐Area Mesoporous CeO2 with Exceptional Redox Property

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Nitrogen-doped ordered mesoporous carbon supported ruthenium metallic nanoparticles: Opportunity for efficient hydrogenolysis of biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-dimethylfuran by catalytic transfer hydrogenation

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Recent Advances in Catalytic Hydrogenation of Furfural over Non-noble Metal Catalysts

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Performant Au hydrogenation catalyst cooperated with Cu-doped Al2O3 for selective conversion of furfural to furfuryl alcohol at ambient pressure

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Tuning the Metal–Support Interaction and Enhancing the Stability of Titania-Supported Cobalt Fischer–Tropsch Catalysts via Carbon Nitride Coating

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Regulating the Interaction within Pd-Cu Dual Metal Sites for Selective Hydrogenation of Furfural Using Ambient H2 Pressure

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Highly efficient Cu-based catalysts for selective hydrogenation of furfural: A key role of copper carbide

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Improving catalytic performance and reusability of flower-like Co-B-P amorphous alloy nanobelts for the selective hydrogenation of furfural in water

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Insight into the Property Modification of Zr‐Incorporated Alumina Binary Mixed Oxides by XRD, TEM, XPS, TPD and IR

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Efficient hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol by magnetically recoverable RuCo bimetallic catalyst

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Effective Control of Particle Size and Electron Density of Pd/C and Sn-Pd/C Nanocatalysts for Vanillin Production via Base-Free Oxidation

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Magnetically Reusable Carbon Nanotube Coated Co‐based Catalysts towards Highly Efficient Transfer Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes

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Tailoring the Reactive Oxygen Species in Mesoporous NiO for Selectivity-Controlled Aerobic Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural on a Loaded Pt Catalyst

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Preparation of Highly Dispersed Nb2O5 Supported Cobalt-Based Catalysts for the Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis

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Layered carbon encapsulated CuOx nanopaticles for selective hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol

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Efficient activation of H2 on copper species immobilized by MCM-41 for selective hydrogenation of furfural at ambient pressure

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Oxygenated groups enriched polyolefin-Zr(IV) complexes catalyzing low-temperature transfer hydrogenation of biomass-derived furfural with 2-propanol

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In Situ Hybridizing Cu3(BTC)2 and Titania to Attain a High‐Performance Copper Catalyst: Dual‐Functional Role of Metal‐Support Interaction on the Activity and Selectivity

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Direct conversion of fructose to levulinic acid in water medium catalyzed by a reusable perfluorosulfonic acid Aquivion® resin

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Hydroformylation of olefins catalyzed by single-atom Co(II) sites in zirconium phosphate

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Unique capability of NdPO4 to activate hydrogen for efficient hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol over Nd-Co-P composites

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Low-Temperature Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation of Biomass-Derived Furfural over Irreversibly Adsorbed and Highly Dispersed Zr(IV) Species

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