O-Th-301-13 Ethylene Carbonylation By Zeolite-Supported Molybdenum Carbonyls

Thursday, June 18, 2015: 2:30 PM
301-303 (Lawrence Convention Center)
Chieh-Chao Yang1, Beata A. Kilos2, David G. Barton2, Eric Weitz1 and Justin M. Notestein1, (1)Northwestern University, USA, (2)The Dow Chemical Company, USA.
This work reports on an effective heterogeneous catalytic system for ethylene carbonylation using zeolite-supported Mo-complexes. High selectivity and catalytic turnover for propionic acid is obtained over HY-zeolite supported molybdenum carbonyls.

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