OF45 Switching Catalytic Selectivity of Supported Molecular Rhodium Species by Controlling the Structure of the Active Sites at an Atomic Level

Wednesday, June 8, 2011: 4:00 PM
Ambassador Ballroom 3 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Pedro Serna and Bruce C. Gates, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA
We study the behavior of zeolite-supported rhodium catalysts with nearly uniform active sites that lends to precise control of the catalytic performance by tuning of the surface structures. To our knowledge, this is the first example of control of a supported catalyst at the molecular level to regulate catalyst selectivity.

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