In this NJC Hot Article, Richard Compton and co-workers at the University of Oxford highlight novel electro-synthetic applications of ionic liquids.
The team has decorated carbon nanotubes with Palladium nanoparticles and used the composite material for the efficient electrochemical deprotection of common functional groups in ionic liquids (IL), thus demonstrating that Pd nanoparticles can be used for clean, efficient, safe electro- chemical hydrogenolysis in IL media.
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Palladium nanoparticle-modified carbon nanotubes for electrochemical hydrogenolysis in ionic liquids
Yao Meng, Leigh Aldous, Ben S. Pilgrim, Timothy J. Donohoe and Richard G. Compton
New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1NJ20070D, Paper
