P-Tu-48 The (Non) Formation of Methanol by Direct Hydrogenation of Formate on Copper Catalysts

Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Ontario Exhibit Hall (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Charles A. Mims1, Charles H.F. Peden2, Yong Yang3, Donghai Mei2, Charles T. Campbell4, Y. Zhao5 and Jun Li5, (1)Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Institute for Interfacial Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (3)Department of Chemistry and Institute for Interfacial Catalysis, University of Washington and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (4)Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, (5)Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Water-derived adsorbed species are shown to be critical for methanol production under reaction conditions over copper catalysts - a fact not included in prior microkinetic models.  New mechanistic simulations provide a likely alternative that both precludes the direct hydrogenation of adsorbed formate, and accounts for the observed effects of water.

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