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Precious Metal Powder Catalysts

BASF offers a comprehensive line of Pd/Pd/Rh/Ru powder catalysts for production of specialty products and intermediates. These catalysts are recommended for a broad range of reactions commonly catalyzed by precious metal on carbon catalysts. Examples are: 

Selective Hydrogenation, Reductive alkylation, 

Hydrogenolysis, Dehalogenation,  Reductive amination,

Isomerization, Coupling reactions,  Dehydrogenation,

 Decomposition, Deprotection reactions, etc.

 

Precious Metal Powder Catalysts

Building on our core competencies in precious metals and catalysis, BASF offers a robust portfolio of PGM (Platinum Group Metals) chemical catalysts for use in a variety of industrial catalysis applications. Our innovative PGM catalysts are manufactured at our ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities located at Mangalore, India, Seneca, South Carolina, USA, and Rome, Italy.

 

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BASF offers a comprehensive line of Pd/Pd/Rh/Ru on carbon powder catalysts, which can be supplied in water-free form or water- wet form . The carbon selected as support can be from wood, peat, coconut or other origin, and has undergone several treatments for optimized catalyst performance. The platinum metal can either be in the reduced or the unreduced state. The location of the metal crystallite on the carbon support is well controlled leading to either an edge, mixed or uniform distribution inside the pores of the carbon.

Palladium on carbon powder Catalysts

  • 1.0-20.0 wt% Pd loading
  • Supplied in water-wet form but if required can also be provided in water-free form
  • Applicable for hydrogenation, deprotection reactions, dehydrogenation reactions, coupling reactions, etc.
  • Excellent available metal crystallites which deliver high activity and good filterability.

Platinum on carbon powder catalysts

  • 1.0-10.0 wt% Pt loading 
  • Supplied in water-wet form or water-free form. sulfide platinum catalysts are also available.
  • Applicable for hydrogenation, nitro-group reduction, reductive alkylation/amination, dehydrogenation, etc.
  • Excellent available metal crystallites which deliver high activity and good filterability.

Rhodium on carbon powder catalysts

  • 1.0 up to 5.0 wt% Rh loading
  • Supplied in water-wet form but if required can also be provided in water-free form
  • Highly active at low temperature and pressure in the hydrogenation of aromatic ring systems or nitrile groups. Typically hydrogenolyzable functional groups are well retained.
  • Excellent available metal crystallites which deliver high activity and good filterability.

Ruthenium on carbon powder catalysts

  • 1.0 up to 5.0 wt% Ru loading.
  • Supplied in water-wet form but if required can also be provided in water-free form.
  • Highly active in the hydrogenation of aromatic rings without the hydrogenolysis of any amino or hydroxy groups present at the ring. In addition, efficient carbonyl reduction to alcohol is achieved without hydrogenolysis of the formed C-O bond.
  • Excellent available metal crystallites which deliver high activity and good filterability.

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BASF NanoSelect LF 100 and LF 200 catalysts are specifically designed to be a lead-free replacement for Lindlar catalysts. The catalysts can be used in any typical application where Lindlar catalysts are used, like alkyne to cis-alkene hydrogenation, or conjugated enyne to conjugated diene.

  • The first lead-free alternatives for the famous Lindlar catalyst. 
  • The activity is significantly higher compared to Lindlar catalysts allowing the metal loading into the reactor to be reduced by 90% while maintaining similar activity and selectivity as Lindlar catalysts. 
  • The catalysts deliver significant cost-savings due to a tenfold lower requirement of palladium. 
BASF NanoSelect Pt catalysts are specifically designed for aromatic nitro group reductions. They can be applied specifically in reactions where e.g. dehalogenation should not take place.
  • Excellent activity in nitro group reduction, preventing dehalogenation from taking place and at the same time no hydroxylamine is build up in the process. 
  • As the metal crystallite size has been optimized for this specific reaction, the metal loading into the reactor can significantly be decreased.
  •  Typically 25 to 40% less platinum can be used while maintaining similar activity as commonly used sulfided or vanadium-promoted platinum on carbon catalysts.

The BASF LowMetal-HighActivity catalysts deliver high productivity using  less precious metals. The very high accessibility of the catalytic metal center allows decreasing the amount of PM used by up to 40%. This technology has been proven to work for palladium and platinum catalysts.

  • Specifically designed to be used in replacement of common 5 or 10% containing Pd and Pt on carbon catalysts while delivering significant cost-savings due to less precious metal being required in the process.
  • Produced while making the metal even more accessible compared to the standard available palladium and platinum on carbon powder catalysts. This delivers highly active catalysts which require up to 40% less precious metal. 
  • Reducing the metal content allows significant cost reduction on precious metal required.

BASF High Leaching Resistant (HLR) were produced with novel deposition technology which results in significant higher metal support binding. As a result, the metal is stronger bound to the carrier and less prone to leaching off the catalyst. 

  • Platinum or rhodium based catalysts which show significant higher metal leaching behavior.
  • Similar activity to standard platinum and rhodium catalysts.
  • The lower metal loss due to leaching processes delivers significant cost-savings.