OF05 Selectivity Control Using Self-Assembled Monolayers on Pd Catalysts

Monday, June 6, 2011: 11:00 AM
Ambassador Ballroom 3 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Carolyn A. Schoenbaum1, Stephen T. Marshall1, Daniel K. Schwartz1 and J. William Medlin2, (1)Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, (2)Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Our group has investigated a new approach to altering product selectivity that uses self-assembled monolayers to influence the near-surface environment on supported cataltysts.  This technique was employed to enhance the selectivity to the desired product during epoxybutene hydrogenation from 15% to 90% using catalysts modified with alkanethiol monolayers.

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