title: Hydrogen from formic acid through its selective disproportionation over sodium germanate--a non-transition-metal catalysis system.
abstract: A robust catalyst for the selective dehydrogenation of formic acid to liberate hydrogen gas has been designed computationally, and also successfully demonstrated experimentally. This is the first such catalyst not based on transition metals, and it exhibits very encouraging performance. It represents an important step towards the use of renewable formic acid as a hydrogen-storage and transport vector in fuel and energy applications.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 (Australia); CSIRO Energy Transformed Cluster on Biofuels and Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 (Australia); ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology (Australia). ruth.amos@sydney.edu.au.
authors.forename: Ruth I J
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Amos
authors.forename: Falk
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Heinroth
authors.forename: Bun
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Sisi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Brian S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Haynes
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Easton
authors.forename: Anthony F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Masters
authors.forename: Leo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Radom
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maschmeyer
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D005561:Formates / Q000737:chemistry*; D005857:Germanium / Q000737:chemistry*; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000737:chemistry*; D006865:Hydrogenation; D008958:Models, Molecular
chemical_list: D005561:Formates; D005857:Germanium; C030544:formic acid; D006859:Hydrogen
keywords: dehydrogenation; formic acid; hydrogen