“…The scission of C-Cl (Aramendía et al, 1999a;Coq et al, 1986Coq et al, , 1995Díaz et al, 2008;Kim et al, 2008;Zinovyev et al, 2004;Zinovyev et al, 2005) and C-Br (Aramendía et al, 1999b;Fakhfakh et al, 2001;Liu et al, 2006;Wang et al, 2007;Yang et al, 2008) bonds has now been promoted using Fe (Fakhfakh et al, 2001;Kim et al, 2008), Ni Zinovyev et al, 2005), Pt (Díaz et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2007) and Pd (Aramendia et al, 1999a, b;Coq et al, 1986Coq et al, , 1995Yang et al, 2008;Zinovyev et al, 2004) catalysts, where the latter has been demonstrated to be the most efficient in terms of specific rate and resistance to deactivation (Centi, 2001;Urbano and Marinas, 2001). It is established that catalytic HDH is influenced by the chemistry of the catalyst support (Coq et al, 1995;Wang et al, 2007;Yuan and Keane, 2003a), metal dispersion (Aramendía et al, 1999b;Coq et al, 1986;Gó mezSainero et al, 2002) and use of additives (Evdokimova et al, 2004;Liu et al, 2006).…”