1 Non-mercury catalytic acetylene hydrochlorination over bimetallic Au-Co(III)/SAC catalysts for vinyl chloride monomer production Haiyang Zhang, a Bin Dai, * b Xugen Wang, a,b Wei Li, a You Han, a Junjie Gu a and Jinli Zhang* a,b a School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, People’s Republic of China b School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University/Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bintuan, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832003, People’s Republic of China *Email: dbinly@126.com, zhangjinli@tju.edu.cn Supplementary Information Table of contents: Fig. S1. Isothermal adsorption-desorption curves of fresh samples. Fig. S2. H 2 -TPR profiles of the fresh monometallic and bimetallic Au-based catalysts. Fig. S3. XRD patterns of carrier SAC, the fresh (a) and used (b) Au and bimetallic Au-based catalysts. Fig. S4. Catalyst experimental setup. Fig. S5. GC-MS spectrum of the products. Fig. S6. Gas chromatogram spectrum of the products. Table S1. Wight loss of fresh and used Au/SAC catalysts under different temperature Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Green Chemistry This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2013