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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Partial Reduction and Selective Transfer of Hydrogen Chloride on Catalytic Gold Nanoparticles

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https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201700282
Abstract

HCl in solution accepts electron density from Au NPs and partially reduces at room temperature, as occurs with other simple diatomic molecules, such as O2 and H2 . The activation can be run catalytically in the presence of alkynes to give exclusively E-vinyl chlorides, after the regio- and stereoselective transfer of HCl. Based also on this method, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) can be produced in a milder and greener way than current industrial processes.

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