“…However, recently transition metal nitrides and carbides (especially molybdenum and tungsten carbides and nitrides) have attracted increasing attention of researchers due to their promising potential as catalysts for use in commercial hydroprocessing and other reactions. For example, in addition to HDN and HDS [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], their activity has been extensively studied in other processes, i.e., hydrogenolysis, isomerization, aromatization, hydrogenation/dehydrogenation [24][25][26][27][28][29], hydrodechlorination [30,31], water gas shift (WGS) and steam reforming [32][33][34][35], hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of bio-oils [36][37][38][39][40][41], methanation reaction and hydrogen production [42,43], as well as ring-opening [44].…”