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Ultrasmall and Stable Pd and Pt Nanoparticles Within Zeolite HY Through Impregnated Method with Enhanced Semihydrogenation Selectivity

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In this study, with zeolite HY as support, ultrasmall Pd and Pt nanoparticles were successfully immobilized into zeolite HY crystals through an optimized impregnation approach. The success of this new approach mainly relied on the selecting appropriate metal precursor to make Pd and Pt element exists with the cation forms, which can facilitate their diffusion into inner channels of zeolite HY through electrostatic attraction and capillary force. Integration of confinement effect of zeolite HY, taking zeolite HY (Si/Al = 3) encapsulation of ultrasmall Pd NPs (Pd@HY-3) as an instance, Pd@HY-3 catalyst exhibited enhanced catalytic selectivity in semihydrogenation of alkynes, in comparison with Pd/HY, Pd/C, Pd/Al2O3 and lindlar catalysts. This improved catalytic selectivity can be attributed to the constrained upright adsorption conformation of reactant alkyne and corresponding product alkene on encapsulated Pd surface to make alkyne adsorption on Pd surface with larger adsorption energy than that of alkene, thus achieving the high catalytic selectivity.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21706204) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (No.119004-2). All calculations were performed with the Material Studios (MS) 2016, a software developed by Biovio company.

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    Mengyue Wang, Xuan Liu, Yiming Zhou, Tianhao Li, Haozhe Kang & Qiang Chen

  2. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai campus, Zhuhai, 519082, China

    Qiang Chen

  3. State Key Laboratory of Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering, Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, Sinopec, Beijing, 100083, China

    Kui Ren, Yunfei Bi & Enhui Xing

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Wang, M., Liu, X., Ren, K. et al. Ultrasmall and Stable Pd and Pt Nanoparticles Within Zeolite HY Through Impregnated Method with Enhanced Semihydrogenation Selectivity. Catal Lett 151, 2684–2695 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-020-03523-2

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