A nonmetal catalyst for molecular hydrogen activation with comparable catalytic hydrogenation capability to noble metal catalyst

Baojun Li; Zheng Xu

doi:10.1021/ja9061097

A nonmetal catalyst for molecular hydrogen activation with comparable catalytic hydrogenation capability to noble metal catalyst

J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Nov 18;131(45):16380-2. doi: 10.1021/ja9061097.

Authors

Baojun Li¹, Zheng Xu

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry and Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructure, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China.

PMID: 19845383
DOI: 10.1021/ja9061097

Abstract

Fullerene can activate molecular hydrogen and is a novel nonmetal hydrogenation catalyst. The hydrogenation of aromatic nitro compounds to amino aromatics is achieved on this catalyst with high conversion and selectivity under 1 atmospheric pressure of H(2) and light irradiation at room temperature or under conditions of 120-160 degrees C and 4-5 MPa H(2) pressure without light irradiation, which is comparable to the case with a noble metal catalyst.