Mg(2+)-assisted low temperature reduction of alloyed AuPd/C: an efficient catalyst for hydrogen generation from formic acid at room temperature

Shuang Wu; Fan Yang; Hao Wang; Rui Chen; Pingchuan Sun; Tiehong Chen

doi:10.1039/c5cc02604k

Mg(2+)-assisted low temperature reduction of alloyed AuPd/C: an efficient catalyst for hydrogen generation from formic acid at room temperature

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Jul 11;51(54):10887-90. doi: 10.1039/c5cc02604k.

Authors

Shuang Wu¹, Fan Yang, Hao Wang, Rui Chen, Pingchuan Sun, Tiehong Chen

Affiliation

¹ College of Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of New Catalytic Materials Science, Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China. [email protected].

PMID: 26055694
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc02604k

Abstract

The Mg(2+)-assisted low temperature reduction approach was applied for the preparation of an alloyed AuPd/C nanocatalyst, which exhibited high activity in hydrogen generation from formic acid. At room temperature the initial turnover frequency (TOF) could reach as high as 1120 h(-1).