Accelerated Identification of the Preferred Precious Metal Powder Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenation of Multi-functional Substrates

摘要

A heuristic method (so called "profiling analysis") was developed. The method is based on a large library of precious metal powder catalysts with different metal loading, metal dispersion, degree of reduction and functionalities of support materials and a data base comprising activity data from hydrogenation of mono-functional substrates. The data base allows the fast identification of potential catalysts for hydrogenation of multifunctional substrates from the library. In the presentation the usage of the profiling method is demonstrated for identification of a highly selective catalyst for hydroxyl-olefin hydrogenation to the hydroxy-alkane.