Effect of pretreatment of graphite oxide on activity of platinum supported catalysts in liquid-phase hydrogenation

Abstract

The effect of the reduction procedure of graphite oxide (GO) on activity of platinum supported catalysts in liquid-phase hydrogenation of nitrobenzene and dec-1-ene was studied. The following methods were applied to prepare the catalysts: simultaneous reduction of graphite oxide and H₂PtCl₆; deposition of platinum on graphite oxide which was preliminary subjected to reduction with sodium tetrahydroborate or hydrazine hydrate, or to thermal reduction at 1000 and 1050 °С. It was shown that at equal Pt particles size of ca. 2 nm the catalyst supported on thermally reduced graphite oxide is more active in the model reactions than the catalysts supported on chemically reduced graphite oxide. The catalyst prepared by simultaneous reduction was the least active.