Barium ruthenate: A high-yield, easy-to-handle perovskite catalyst for the oxidation of sulfides
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-barium-ruthenate-high-yield-easy-to-handle-perovskite.html
Reporting their findings in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, the researchers state that BaRuO3 has three advantages over conventional catalysts.
Firstly, it exhibits high performance even at 313 K, a temperature much lower than the 373 to 423 K range reported in previous systems including other ruthenium- and manganese-based catalysts. Secondly, its high rate of oxygen transfer indicates that it has many potential uses; for example, it is applicable to the oxidative desulfurization of dibenzothiophene, which can produce a 99 percent yield of pure sulfone. Thirdly, the new catalyst is recyclable—the present study showed that BaRuO3 could be reused at least three times without loss of performance.