US 7,488,698 B2
Microencapsulated metal catalyst
Shu Kobayashi, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Saitama (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 30, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/979,032.
Application 11/979032 is a division of application No. 10/469916, granted, now 7,307,193, previously published as PCT/JP02/01298, filed on Feb. 15, 2002.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-059742 (JP), filed on Mar. 05, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2008/0076662 A1, Mar. 27, 2008
Int. Cl. B01J 31/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 502—159  [502/162; 502/173] 3 Claims
 
1. A microencapsulated metal catalyst, which comprises a metal catalyst containing palladium encapsulated in a polymer that has side chains containing an aromatic substituent, wherein the metal catalyst is a triphenylphosphine metal catalyst represented by the following general formula (I):
M(PPh3)  (I)
wherein M represents palladium.