Table 1 Results of sequential hydrogenation of various nitroarenes over the Ru/Pd/MCMOS cascade catalyst and the physically mixed catalysta.

From: Dual metal nanoparticles within multicompartmentalized mesoporous organosilicas for efficient sequential hydrogenation

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  1. Reaction conditions: nitroarenes (0.25 mmol), solid catalyst (Ru 0.77 mol%, Pd 1.01 mol%), ethanol (2.0 mL), H2 (2.0 MPa), 80 °C.
  2. aNumbers in brackets refer to the results obtained over the physically mixed catalyst.
  3. bDetermined by GC and GC–MS.