O-W-Fre-12 Structure Sensitivity in Oxidative Coupling of Methane over MgO

Wednesday, June 5, 2013: 2:50 PM
French (Galt House Hotel)
Pierre Schwach, Neil G. Hamilton, Robert Schlögl and Annette Trunschke, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany.
We studied a series of MgO catalysts prepared by different methods. The initial activity of MgO depends on catalyst synthesis. IR spectroscopy provides quantitative correlation between the abundance of defects on the surface and the C2 formation rate. Based on these findings, a model for methyl radical formation is proposed.

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