| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第6-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第11-26页 |
| CHAPTER 1 Review of Literature | 第26-52页 |
| 1.1 Brief Introduction to the Literature Review | 第26-28页 |
| 1.2 Hydrogenation Reactions | 第28-33页 |
| 1.2.1 Hydrogenation of Aromatic Nitro Compounds | 第29-32页 |
| 1.2.2 Hydrogenation of Dioctyl Phthalate (DOP) | 第32页 |
| 1.2.3 Hydrogenation of Phthalic Acid | 第32-33页 |
| 1.3 C-C Coupling reactions | 第33-38页 |
| 1.3.1 Heck reaction | 第33-36页 |
| 1.3.2 Suzuki reaction | 第36-38页 |
| 1.4 Mono and Bimetallic Metal Nanoparticles as Catalysts | 第38-41页 |
| 1.5 Chemical Synthesis of Mono and Bimetallic Metal Nanoparticles | 第41-42页 |
| 1.6 BTP and its potentials on synthesis of nanoparticles | 第42-43页 |
| 1.7 Supported Heterogeneous Catalysis | 第43-49页 |
| 1.7.1 Silica-Supported Heterogeneous Catalysts | 第44-45页 |
| 1.7.2 Graphene as a Support for Heterogeneous Catalysts | 第45-49页 |
| 1.8 Recyclability | 第49-50页 |
| 1.9 Research Focus&Content of the Research | 第50-52页 |
| 1.9.1 Research Focus | 第50-51页 |
| 1.9.2 Content of Research | 第51-52页 |
| CHAPTER 2 Materials and Experimental Methods | 第52-60页 |
| 2.1 Materials & Equipment Lists | 第52-54页 |
| 2.2 Equipment and Techniques for Characterization and Analysis | 第54-56页 |
| 2.2.1 XRD (X-ray Powder Diffraction) | 第54页 |
| 2.2.2 TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy) | 第54页 |
| 2.2.3 BET (Brunauer-Emmett-Teller analysis) | 第54页 |
| 2.2.4 XPS (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) | 第54-55页 |
| 2.2.5 FTIR(Fourier Transform InfraRed spectroscopy) | 第55页 |
| 2.2.6 NMR(Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy) | 第55页 |
| 2.2.7 AAS (Atomic Adsorption Spectrophotometer) | 第55页 |
| 2.2.8 GC Analysis of substrates, products and by-products | 第55-56页 |
| 2.3 Catalytic Tests | 第56-58页 |
| 2.3.1 Hydrogenation Reactions | 第56-57页 |
| 2.3.2 C-C Cross Coupling Reactions | 第57-58页 |
| 2.4 Removal of Mass Transfer Effect | 第58-60页 |
| CHAPTER 3 Preparation and Characterization of Catalysts | 第60-78页 |
| 3.1 Synthesis of Catalysts | 第60-66页 |
| 3.1.1 PdNi bimetallic catalysts using Sol-Gel process | 第60-62页 |
| 3.1.2 PdNi bimetallic catalysts on rGO | 第62-64页 |
| 3.1.3 Synthesis of Pd nanoparticles supported on silica dioxide using gaseousreductants | 第64-65页 |
| 3.1.4 Synthesis of Pd-Silicon catalysts | 第65-66页 |
| 3.2 Characterization of as-prepared catalysts | 第66-78页 |
| 3.2.1 Characterization of mono and bimetallic Pd catalysts on sol-gel silica catalysts | 第67-72页 |
| 3.2.2 Characterization of rGO | 第72-76页 |
| 3.2.3 Investigation of morphology of Pd-f/SiO_2 and Pd/Si | 第76-78页 |
| CHAPTER 4 Heck and Suzuki C-C Cross Coupling Reactions | 第78-87页 |
| 4.1 Introduction | 第78页 |
| 4.2 Heck reaction with PdNi on Sol Gel Silica | 第78-83页 |
| 4.3 Suzuki reaction with PdNi on rGO | 第83-85页 |
| 4.4 Recyclability of PdNi-BTP/SiO_2 and PdNi-BTP/rGO | 第85-86页 |
| 4.5 Summary | 第86-87页 |
| CHAPTER 5 Hydrogenation of Nitro and Phthalate Compounds | 第87-103页 |
| 5.1 Introduction | 第87页 |
| 5.2 Catalytic performance of BTP ligand assisted PdNi bimetallic catalysts | 第87-98页 |
| 5.2.1 Hydrogenation of nitro-compounds by supported PdNi mono and bimetallicnanoparticle catalysts | 第88-91页 |
| 5.2.2 Evaluation of PdNi-BTP/SiO_2 on Weisz-Prater criterion | 第91-92页 |
| 5.2.3 Recyclability of PdNi bimetallic catalysts | 第92-96页 |
| 5.2.4 Hydrogenation of nitro-compounds by supported PdNi mono and bimetallicnanoparticles on SiO_2 catalysts | 第96-97页 |
| 5.2.5 Hydrogenation of DOP to DEHHP | 第97-98页 |
| 5.3 Catalytic performance of Pd-x/SiO_2 (x=e,m,f,h) and Pd/Si | 第98-101页 |
| 5.3.1 Hydrogenation of nitrobenzene with Pd-X/SiO_2 (x=e,m,f,h) | 第98-99页 |
| 5.3.2 Hydrogenation of DOP with Pd-Si | 第99-101页 |
| 5.4 Summary | 第101-103页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion and Perspectives | 第103-108页 |
| 6.1 Conclusion | 第103-104页 |
| 6.2 Future Perspectives | 第104-108页 |
| APPENDIX | 第108-112页 |
| REFERENCES | 第112-144页 |
| BIOGRAPHY | 第144-145页 |
