{"id":939070,"date":"2026-10-19T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939070\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:54:11","slug":"rhodium-embedded-in-a-zeolite-framework-catalyzes-hydroformylation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939070\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhodium embedded in a zeolite framework catalyzes hydroformylation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many commercial products, including plasticizers and detergents, rely on aldehyde building blocks. Hydroformylation<\/a> constructs aldehydes from alkenes and synthesis gas\u2014a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The industrial process currently uses rhodium-based catalysts that are expensive, involve toxic phosphine-containing ligands, and occur in the same phase as the reactants, which complicates catalyst recovery.<\/p>\n

Aiming to get around those challenges, scientists have advanced an alternative, heterogenous catalyst: Rh2O3 clusters embedded within the channels of an MFI zeolite<\/a>\u2014a crystalline, porous material. The product selectivity achieved with this technique is highly competitive with current industry standards, and the nontoxic catalyst is recyclable (Nature 2026, DOI: 10.1038\/s41586-026-11136-9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Many commercial products, including plasticizers and detergents, rely on aldehyde building blocks. Hydroformylation constructs aldehydes from alkenes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[321853,49,48,88373,264002,68597,10193,321852,5460,321851,321846,56,999,321850,33696,321849,321847,321844,321845,61,321848],"class_list":["post-939070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-aldehyde","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-catalysis","tag-catalyst","tag-chemical","tag-chemistry","tag-detergent","tag-green","tag-heterogeneous","tag-hydroformylation","tag-industry","tag-materials","tag-nontoxic","tag-physical","tag-recyclable","tag-rhodium","tag-surface-chemistry","tag-synthesis","tag-technology","tag-zeolite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}