Abstract
A heterogeneous Pd catalyst, biologically-mineralized palladium nanoparticles (bio-Pd), was synthesized using sulfidogenic bacteria which reduced soluble Pd(II) to catalytically-active Pd-nanoparticles (NPs). Heat treatment (processing) of bio-Pd (5 or 20 wt% on the cells) made by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans evolved supported Pd-catalyst comprising Pd-NPs held on large spherical hollow structures. The rate of hydrogenation of 2-butyne-1,4-diol was ~5-fold slower than for a commercial catalyst (~twice that of native bio-Pd), but with high selectivity to the alkene, fulfilling a key industrial criterion. In the Heck reaction, while bio-Pd showed a comparable reaction rate in ethyl cinnamate synthesis to that achieved by commercial Pd/C, heat-treated bio-Pd had negligible activity. D. desulfuricans bio-Pd was replaced by bio-Pd made using a consortium of waste acidophilic sulfidogenic bacteria (CAS) supplied from an unrelated primary remediation process. This gave comparable activity to commercial 5 wt% Pd/C in ethyl cinnamate synthesis, signposting an economic, scalable route to catalyst manufacture.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 121059 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Applied Catalysis B: Environmental |
Volume | 306 |
Early online date | 4 Jan 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 5 Jun 2022 |
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Funder
This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council , UK (Grant no. BB/C516128/1 ), a Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council, UK Pathfinder Award and Natural Environment Research Council , UK (Grant No NE/L014076/1 ) to LEM. The authors wish to thank Dr J. Gomez-Bolivar for useful discussions. They also declare no conflicts of interest.Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords
- Efficient hydrogenation
- Green chemistry
- Heck synthesis
- Palladium nanoparticle catalyst
- Waste upvalorization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Catalysis
- General Environmental Science
- Process Chemistry and Technology