Abstract:Phenylacetylene as an impurity in styrene is poisonous to catalysts for styrene polymerization in the production of polystyrene plastics. The selective hydrogenation of phenylacetylene to styrene is an industrially promising route to overcome this challenge yet lacks cost‐effective catalysts to prevent the overhydrogenation of styrene to ethylbenzene. In this work, we report an efficient and robust copper‐decorated Rh/TiO2 catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of phenylacetylene to styrene. By optimizing th… Show more
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