Highly chemoselective hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde over Ag-In/SBA-15 fabricated by a modified two solvents strategy

In the challenging crotonaldehyde hydrogenation to crotyl alcohol, an Ag-In/SBA-15 catalyst fabricated by a modified two solvents'' strategy shows an unprecedentedly high yield of 86% at a selectivity of 87%, which exceeds the best results on Pt-, Au- and other Ag-based heterogeneous catalysts reported so far.