For the first time parahydrogen-induced polarization (PHIP) was observed in the gas phase heterogeneous hydrogenation of alkynes catalyzed by Pd(0) nanoparticles embedded in a supported ionic liquid phase. Igor Koptyug and colleagues from the International Tomography Center in Russia believe that these results could be useful for the MRI studies of the catalytic reactors operated under a continuous flow mode.
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