Chapter 14: Nickel-based Catalysts
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Published:16 Nov 2015
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Special Collection: 2015 ebook collection , ECCC Environmental eBooks 1968-2022 , 2011-2015 physical chemistry subject collectionSeries: Green Chemistry
Z. Wang, in Sustainable Catalysis: With Non-endangered Metals, Part 1, ed. M. North and M. North, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015, ch. 14, pp. 407-468.
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Nickel is less expensive than palladium and platinum. However, nickel-based catalysts can catalyse a wide variety of reactions and hence are being used as complements or alternatives to palladium-based catalysts in some reactions. Nickel-based catalysts also exhibit distinctive catalytic properties such as catalysing activation of unreactive C–O bonds. In this review recent progress of Ni-catalysed activation and transformation of unreactive chemical bonds including C–X (X=halide), C–O, C–N, C–CN and C–H bonds is presented. A mechanistic discussion is also included where possible.
