Rational design of highly dispersed ultra-small Ru nanoparticles on MgO–Al2O3 for efficient and selective aromatic hydrogenation

Yongjun Wang, Cheng Han, Xiaohan Wu, Minglin Xiang, Tao Liu, Xiaoshan Zhang, Bing Wang, Yingde Wang · 2025

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Yongjun Wang and seven co-authors wrote a study in 2025 on the use of a catalyst to add hydrogen to ring compounds with care. Filling the rings with hydrogen makes feed stocks for plastics and drugs, but poor catalysts also snap links to oxygen and spoil the choice of end good. A better held ruthenium catalyst was the aim.

By a finer make, the team made ultra-small ruthenium bits spread in an even way on a base of magnesium and aluminium oxides. The new catalyst turned phenols to ring-full alcohols fast, and it hit the ring more than it broke links. Ring esters and ethers were changed in a clean way to their full forms too. The team says the build fits non-stop work on goods of high worth.

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CREATORYongjun Wang, Cheng Han, Xiaohan Wu, Minglin Xiang, Tao Liu, Xiaoshan Zhang, Bing Wang, Yingde Wang
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE40 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12700224

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