Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 824-841.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(14)60120-0

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Carbon mediated catalysis:A review on oxidative dehydrogenation

De Chena, Anders Holmena, Zhijun Suib, Xinggui Zhoub   

  1. a Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491Trondheim, Norway;
    b State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
  • Received:2014-04-11 Revised:2014-04-28 Online:2014-05-30 Published:2014-06-03

Abstract:

Carbon mediated catalysis has gained an increasing attention in both areas of nanocatalysis and nanomaterials. The progress in carbon nanomaterials provides many new opportunities to manipulate the types and properties of active sites of catalysts through manipulating structures, functionalities and properties of carbon surfaces. The present review focuses on progresses in carbon mediated oxidative dehydrogenation reactions of ethylbenzene, propane, and butane. The state-of-the- art of the developments of carbon mediated catalysis is discussed in terms of fundamental studies on adsorption of oxygen and hydrocarbons, reaction mechanism as well as effects of carbon nanomaterial structures and surface functional groups on the catalytic performance. We highlight the importance and challenges in tuning of the electron density of carbon and oxygen on carbon surfaces for improving selectivity in oxidative dehydrogenation reactions.

Key words: Oxidative dehydrogenation, Carbon mediated catalysis, Carbon nanomaterial, Ethylbenzene