Chemistry Letters, Vol.30, No.9, 936-937, 2001
Hydrodechlorination of trichloromethane to higher hydrocarbons over Pd/SiO2 catalyst
Pd/SiO2 catalyzed C-C bond formation selectively to give C-2-C-7 hydrocarbons in the hydrodechlorination of CHCl3. The produced hydrocarbons followed well the Schultz-Flory distribution, indicating that the hydrocarbons were formed via polymerization of surface C-1 species such as methylene group.