Publications by authors named "Zelun Zhao"
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- The study addresses the challenges in using oxide-metal composite catalysts for transforming biomass or plastic waste into valuable chemicals, highlighting issues like multiple reducible bonds and low activity.
- Researchers found that the inverse catalyst 4CeO/Ni improves transformation rates by up to 36.5 times compared to traditional catalysts, specifically for lignocellulose derivatives and polyether.
- In-depth experiments show that the unique electronic interactions between cerium and nickel in the catalyst enable better C-O bond adsorption and hydrogen generation, facilitating more efficient chemical transformations.
Catalyst deactivation caused by the aggregation of active metal species in the reaction process poses great challenges for practical applications of supported metal catalysts in solid-liquid catalysis. Herein, we develop a hypercrosslinked polymer integrated with N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) as bifunctional support to stabilize palladium in heterogeneous C-C bond formations. This polymer supported palladium catalyst exhibits excellent stability in the one-pot fluorocarbonylation of indoles to four kinds of valuable indole-derived carbonyl compounds in cascade or sequential manner, as well as the representative Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMagnesium chloride efficiently catalyzed the hydrolysis of Mg-based hydride prepared by hydriding combustion synthesis. Hydrogen yield of 1635 mL g(-1) was obtained (MgH(2)), i.e.
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