O-Tu-301-13 Single-Site Catalysts: The Role of Ligands in Iridium Complexes Supported on Dealuminated Zeolite HY

Tuesday, June 16, 2015: 4:00 PM
301-303 (Lawrence Convention Center)
Bruce C. Gates1, Claudia Martinez-Macias2, Pinghong Xu2, Jing Lu2, Cong-Yan Chen3 and Nigel Browning4, (1)University of California, Davis, USA, (2)University of California Davis, USA, (3)Chevron Energy Technology Company, USA, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA.
We report nearly uniform HY zeolite-supported iridium complexes incorporating various ligands in addition to the support, including H, ethylene, ethyl, and CO; the catalytic properties for ethylene hydrogenation were tuned by the choice of ligand, as in molecular homogeneous catalysis.

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