Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 13(51), p. 2577-2580
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc09139f
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Surfactant-free Pd nanoparticles, immobilized to metal-organic framework (MIL-101), have been used for the first time as a highly active and durable catalyst in water for biomass refining (hydrodeoxygenation of vanillin, a typical compound of lignin) with metal nanoparticle size- and location-dependent catalytic activity and selectivity.