Low Contents of Zn on Cu/SiO Modify the Surface and the Mechanism of CO Hydrogenation to Methanol

DAVIEL GOMEZ; COLLINS, SEBASTIÁN E.; ROMEL JIMÉNEZ; ALEJANDRO KARELOVIC

Congreso; NAM28: The 28th North American Catalysis Society Meeting; 2023

The ultra-low Zn content addition increases the TOF of methanol by more thanan order of magnitude and forms heterogeneous surface sites with strongaffinity for CO. On catalysts with a higher Zn content, the surface ishomogeneous, stabilizes the formates and reduces the Eof methanol.