Selective hydrogenolysis of carbon-oxygen bonds with formic acid over a Au-Pt alloy catalyst

Liang Wang; Jian Zhang; Guoxiong Wang; Wei Zhang; Chengtao Wang; Chaoqun Bian; Feng-Shou Xiao

doi:10.1039/c6cc09599b

Selective hydrogenolysis of carbon-oxygen bonds with formic acid over a Au-Pt alloy catalyst

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Feb 28;53(18):2681-2684. doi: 10.1039/c6cc09599b.

Authors

Liang Wang¹, Jian Zhang¹, Guoxiong Wang¹, Wei Zhang², Chengtao Wang¹, Chaoqun Bian¹, Feng-Shou Xiao³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China. liangwang@zju.edu.cn fsxiao@zju.edu.cn.
² Department of Materials Science and Key Laboratory of Mobile Materials MOE, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China. weizhang@jlu.edu.cn.
³ Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China. liangwang@zju.edu.cn fsxiao@zju.edu.cn and Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.

PMID: 28197561
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc09599b

Abstract

We reported selective hydrogenolysis of carbon-oxygen species over a CeO₂-supported Au-Pt alloy catalyst (Au-Pt/CeO₂) using biomass-derived formic acid as the hydrogen source. The success of this reaction is reasonably attributed to the high efficiency of Au-Pt/CeO₂ in the tandem steps of formic acid dehydrogenation and carbon-oxygen species hydrodeoxygenation.