Wang Jialu, Jin Meng, Sun Yiyang, Zhang Haimin
Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, CAS Centre for Excellence in Nanoscience, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China.
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Jun 9;58(47):6721-6724. doi: 10.1039/d2cc01527g.
The electrocatalytic selective hydrogenation of biomass-derived molecules is an important approach for synthesizing value-added chemicals. Herein, we synthesized carbon-supported platinum-modified molybdenum oxide nanoparticles (Pt-MoO/C) to efficiently catalyze cinnamaldehyde (CAL) to cinnamyl alcohol. DFT results unveiled that the modified Pt regulated the surface electronic structure, favourable for the vertical adsorption of CAL.
