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Acetylene hydrochlorination using Au / Carbon: a journey towards single site catalysis

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posted on 2017-10-12, 13:31 authored by Grazia Malta, Simon J. Freakley, Simon KondratSimon Kondrat, Graham J. Hutchings
The replacement of mercuric chloride in the production of vinyl chloride monomer, a precursor to PVC, would greatly reduce the environmental impact of this large scale industrial process. The validation of single Au cations supported on carbon as the best catalyst for this reaction at an industrial scale has resulted from nearly 35 years of research. In this feature article we review the development of this catalyst system and address the limitations of a range of characterisation techniques used previously which may induce damage to the fresh catalyst. Following our latest findings using X-ray absorption spectroscopy, we show that under operating conditions the catalyst is atomically dispersed and can be classed as a single site catalyst, we give a perspective on future directions in single atom catalysis.

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  • Science

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  • Chemistry

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Chem. Commun.

Citation

MALTA, G. ... et al., 2017. Acetylene hydrochlorination using Au / Carbon: a journey towards single site catalysis. Chemical Communications, 53(86), pp.11733-11746.

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© Royal Society of Chemistry

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2017-09-15

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2017

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This article was published in the journal, Chemical Communications [© Royal Society of Chemistry] and the definitive version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC05986H

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1359-7345

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1364-548X

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  • en

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