Platinum metals (Pt, Pd, Ir, etc.) are broadly adopted as the catalysts for hydrogenation reactions due to their high catalytic efficiency. It is desirable to substitute them for low-cost base metal catalysts, which are, unfortunately, not as efficient as platinum metals. In this ACS PRF funded project, we synthesized binary intermetallic compounds between Fe/Co/Ni and Mo/W and tested their catalytic performance in the hydrogenation reaction of 1-octene into n-octane. The rationale behind is “like electronic structure, like catalysis”. Pt features abundant d-states around the Fermi level and there is no spin polarization. So our expectation is to make binary compounds which also exhibit these features and thus are potentially efficient hydrogenation catalysts. The promising candidate compounds can be further optimized via 3<sup>rd</sup>-element doping to adjust the Fermi level.

(Fe/Co/Ni)-(Mo/W) binary base metal intermetallic compounds and their catalysis in the hydrogenation of 1-octene

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