A Study of the Toluene Hydrogenation Reaction in the Presence of Polymer/Nickel-Based Nanocatalysts

The hydrogenation of aromatic compounds is widely utilized in modern industrial catalytic processes, which form the basis of motor fuel refining technologies.Researchers have determined that catalysts containing metals such as Ni, Co, Rh, and Ru ensure the selective progression of hydrogenation processes.Several Ni-containing synthetic polymer-based complex compounds have been synthesized.The identification of the obtained complexes was performed using various physicochemical analysis methods (XRD, SEM, EDS).Additionally, the catalytic properties of these complexes were studied in the hydrogenation of toluene.The catalytic properties of the synthetic polymer-based Ni-containing complex based on poly-N-vinylpyrrolidone (PVP) were investigated under mild conditions, with varying molar ratios of reagents.