Selective Hydrodeoxygenation of Biomass‐Derived Oxygenates to Unsaturated Hydrocarbons using Molybdenum Carbide Catalysts

Which cleavage do you prefer? With a combination of density functional theory (DFT) calculations, surface science studies, and reactor evaluations, Mo2C is identified as a highly selective HDO catalyst to selectively convert biomass-derived oxygenates to unsaturated hydrocarbons through selective CO bond scissions without CC bond cleavage. This provides high-value HDO products for utilization as feedstocks for chemicals and fuels; this also reduces the overall consumption of H2.