Palladium‐Based Nanostructures with Highly Porous Features and Perpendicular Pore Channels as Enhanced Organic Catalysts

• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201208901
• Publication Date: 2013-01-30T10:26:42Z
• Authors: Xiaoqing Huang; Yongjia Li; Yu Chen; Enbo Zhou; Yuxi Xu; Hailong Zhou; Xiangfeng Duan; Yu Huang
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

Channeling a good catalyst: Highly porous palladium nanostructures (pPdNs) with perpendicular pore channels (see picture) were prepared under mild conditions. The combination of high surface area and rich edge/corner atoms gives pPdNs better catalytic performance than known Pd catalysts for the hydrogenation nitrobenzene styrene Suzuki coupling reaction.