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ionic liquid. The enhanced activity and selectivity are attributed to (i) the formation of ionic liquid cages/membranes around the NPs akin to catalytically active membranes that tune the diffusion affinity of reactants, reactive intermediates, and products for catalytically active sites and (ii) the steric hindrance provided by the Pd-P bonds.
Qadir et al. (Wed,) studied this question.