O-M-A-15 Effect of Reaction Medium and Pretreatment on the Performance of Pt/C and Pd/C in the Hydrogenation of Phenols

Monday, June 15, 2015: 4:40 PM
Ballroom A (Lawrence Convention Center)
Friederike C. Jentoft1, Zhimin Liu1, Sanwu Wang2 and Ibrahim Abou Hamad2, (1)University of Oklahoma, USA, (2)The University of Tulsa, USA.
The hydrogenation of phenol and cyclohexanone on Pt/C and Pd/C in aqueous phase was investigated. Kinetics and DFT calculations show phenol hydrogenation to be structure-sensitive, in contrast to cyclohexanone hydrogenation; and rate variations induced by alcohol addition or catalyst pretreatment can be explained by poisoning, competitive adsorption, and restructuring effects.

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