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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 46, Issue 19, Pages 6358-6365Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7dt00628d
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [51502297, 51372248, 51432009]
- Instrument Developing Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [yz201421]
- CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program
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We report a fast and simple method for the synthesis of Ni-based metal-organic-frameworks (Ni-MOFs). Due to the existence of nickel ions and an organic ligand, the MOFs are employed as a sacrificial template for the facile preparation of carbon-embedded Ni (Ni/C) catalysts by a direct thermal decomposition method. The obtained Ni/C catalysts exhibit excellent catalytic activity for selectively transforming furfural (FAL) to tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFOL) due to the Ni nanoparticles (NPs) embedded uniformly in the ligand-derived carbon. The exemplified results illustrate that the catalytic performance of the Ni/C catalyst is greatly affected by the calcination conditions (temperature and time), composition of the Ni-MOF precursor and the catalysis conditions. The conversion of FAL and selectivity of THFOL both reached 100% under the conditions of 120 degrees C, 1 MPa H-2 pressure and 120 min of hydrogenation over the Ni/C-500 catalyst, derived from the pyrolysis of Ni-MOFs (Ni : BTC mole ratio of 1.0) at 500 degrees C for 120 min, which exhibits an average nanoparticle size of similar to 14 nm and uniform dispersion, and the highest BET surface area (similar to 92 m(2) g(-1)) among all investigated Ni/C catalysts. This facilely prepared heterogeneous catalyst would be very promising for the replacement of noble metal catalysts for the efficient catalytic conversion of biomass-derived feedstocks into value-added chemicals.
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