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Download fileAcetylene 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. HutchingsThe 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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