High-throughput experimentation techniques for the preparation and testing of supported precious metal catalysts in liquid-phase hydrogenation

Miniaturisation and parallelisation are fundamental strategies to enable the productivity improvements achievable by high-throughput experimentation (HTE). This paper reports how the approach has been used to allow robotic preparation of supported precious metal catalysts and parallel techniques for subsequent reaction testing. It will be shown how HTE can shorten catalyst development times through increased productivity, as well as enabling a greater diversity space to be explored than would otherwise occur.