“…In previouss tudies, most of the supported metal catalysts, such as supported Pt, Pd, Ru,R h, Fe, and Ni catalysts, suffer from high selectivity to decarbonylation or decarboxylation products rather than hydrodeoxygenation products even under H 2 . [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Few catalysts,i ncluding Niloaded Hb zeolite, [16] Pt-Re/ZSM-5, [17] Pt/Nb 2 O 5 , [18] Pd/Nb 2 O 5 / SiO 2 , [19] tungsten-or molybdenum-based catalysts, [20][21][22][23] Ni-Mo/ Al 2 O 3 , [24] and hydrodesulfurization catalysts [25] (sulfided NiMo oxides), catalyze the selective hydrodeoxygenation of fatty acids under pressurized H 2 .H owever,m ost of these systems have some drawbacks such as decarbonylation and cracking as side reactions and the necessity of high catalyst loading or,i n other words, low turnover numbers (TONs). In our previous study, [18] we reported that Pt/Nb 2 O 5 showed a6 0times higher TON for hydrodeoxygenation of af atty acid than Ni-loaded Hb zeolite [16] and tungsten-or molybdenum-based catalysts.…”