Calcium
carbide is a key intermediate in the chemical
industry,
such as cyanamide industry (>2 Mton year–1 for
CaCN2), and in the manufacture of vinyl chloride (∼13
Mton
year–1). The environment-friendly utilization of
reactive CaC2 is of great interest. Herein, by ball milling
CaC2 and equimolar metal chlorides, porous carbon-supported
transition-metal oxides were obtained without calcination treatment.
This mechanochemical synthesis route was based on the CaC2 replacement reaction and the Cl–-triggered free-radical
reaction. Different metal oxides including Mn3O4/C, Fe3O4/C, NiO
x
/C, Cu2O/C, ZnO/C, ZrO2/C, Nb2O5/C, CeO2/C, HfO2/C, and WO3/C showed high surface areas up to 232 m2g–1. Moreover, the as-made metal oxides displayed good performance in
heterogeneous catalysis. NiO
x
/C promoted
selective nitrobenzene hydrogenation with high conversion and selectivity
(>99% Conv., >99% Select.), while CuMnCeO
x
/C achieved 90% CO conversion at 120 °C in CO oxidation.