title: Oxygen surface groups of activated carbon steer the chemoselective hydrogenation of substituted nitroarenes over nickel nanoparticles.
abstract: Oxygen surface groups of activated carbon, produced by nitric acid treatment, are not only able to prevent Ni particles from sintering but are also able to preferentially interact with the nitro group of substituted nitroarenes. The resulting Ni/ACOXcatalyst is highly active and chemoselective for hydrogenation of nitroarenes to produce functionalized anilines and oximes.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. aqwang@dicp.ac.cn taozhang@dicp.ac.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Yujing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. aqwang@dicp.ac.cn taozhang@dicp.ac.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Haisheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. aqwang@dicp.ac.cn taozhang@dicp.ac.cn and School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China.
authors.forename: Guangzhao
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. aqwang@dicp.ac.cn taozhang@dicp.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Leilei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. aqwang@dicp.ac.cn taozhang@dicp.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Aiqin
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4552-0360
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. aqwang@dicp.ac.cn taozhang@dicp.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhang