O-M-Fre-3 Lewis Acid Chemistry on Single-site, Heterogeneous Metal Catalysts: Propane/Propene Dehydrogenation on Zn

Monday, June 3, 2013: 10:40 AM
French (Galt House Hotel)
Neil M. Schweitzer1, Bo Hu2, Ujjal Das1, Hacksung Kim3, Jeffrey P. Greeley1, Larry A. Curtiss1, Peter C. Stair1,3, Jeffrey T. Miller1 and Adam S. Hock1,2, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, USA, (2)Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, (3)Northwestern University, USA.
We report a zinc catalyst for propene hydrogenation and propane dehydrogenation.  This highly selective catalyst operates through a Lewis Acid mechanism rather than a metal-centered redox pathway. Furthermore, it is long-lived, demonstrating catalytic activity for > 12 hours and near 100% selectivity for propane dehydrogenation to propene at 550 °C.

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