OA71 CO Activation and C-C Bond Formation in Synthesis Gas Conversion

Friday, June 10, 2011: 8:40 AM
Cabot Ballroom (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Brett Loveless, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Corneliu Buda, Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Matthew Neurock, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and Enrique Iglesia, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
This study unites theory and experiment to determine the elementary chemical processes by which monomers form and grow hydrocarbon chains during Fischer-Tropsch synthesis on metal cluster surfaces at the relevant conditions of CO saturation.

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