“…Considering the selective hydrogenation of AP to PHE in liquid-phase hydrogenation, various pressures, temperatures, and types of solvents have been employed over supported noble metal and non-noble metal catalysts [5]. Noble metal catalysts that have been used are Pt [6][7][8][9][10], Ag [11], Pd [10,12,13], Rh [12,14], Ru [15] and non-noble metals such as Cu [2,4,5], Ni [5,16], Co [1,3,5], Zr [17], Fe [8,18], Cr [18]. Pt-supported catalysts are used in the hydrogenation of AP because of high catalytic activity but Pt-supported catalysts can catalyze hydrogenation of carbonyl (C=O) and phenyl groups of the AP molecule to produce comparable products of PHE and CHMK respectively.…”