25 weight% ZrO2/SBA-15 catalyst exhibits good activity in the catalytic transfer hydrogenation of levulinic acid under vapour phase conditions at atmospheric pressure.

Aiming at developing an efficient catalyst for selective dehydrogenation of benzyl alcohol into benzaldehyde in the absence of O 2 and H 2 acceptor, a series of Cu/MgO catalysts with Cu loading of 1, 3, 5, and 7% have been prepared, of which the 5% Cu/MgO catalyst in the gas phase exhibited a remarkable performance with 98% conversion and 97% selectivity and in support of the performance, the catalysts have been characterized by different techniques like BET surface area analysis, XRD, TEM, CO 2 -TPD, N 2 O pulse chemisorption, XPS and TPR.

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An efficient route for the transformation of levulinic acid without an external hydrogen source in a continuous process over supported Ni catalysts.