Highly dispersed nickel anchored on a N-doped carbon molecular sieve derived from metal– organic frameworks for efficient hydrodeoxygenation in the aqueous phase

ZIF-8 was employed as a template to synthesize HD-Ni/N-CMScontaining highly dispersed Ni at the atomic level anchored on aN-doped carbon molecular sieve for vanillin hydrodeoxygenation.The ZIF-8 structure was inherited and Ni–N bonds were formed bythe coordination of Ni with N-rich defects, therefore it exhibited ahigh turnover frequency (1047.1 h 1 ) and good stability.