Granulated Carbon Nanotubes as the Catalyst Support for Pt for the Hydrogenation of Nitrobenzene

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doi:10.1071/CH09162

Granulated Carbon Nanotubes as the Catalyst Support for Pt for the Hydrogenation of Nitrobenzene

Shao Jin ^A ^B, Weizhong Qian ^A ^C, Yi Liu ^A, Fei Wei ^A, Dezeng Wang ^A, Jinchang Zhang ^B

^A Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
^B Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China.
^C Corresponding author. Email: qianwz@tsinghua.edu.cn





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Australian Journal of Chemistry 63(1) 131–134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH09162
Submitted: 17 March 2009 Accepted: 17 August 2009 Published online: 8 January 2010

Abstract

Granulated Pt/carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were found to have a much better catalytic activity in the liquid phase hydrogenation of nitrobenzene than Pt/activated carbon (AC). The granulated CNTs had much larger pores than the AC particles, which gave a faster mass transfer rate of H₂ that helped produce aniline with high selectivity.