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Christian Reece, M. Luneau, R. Madix
ACS Catalysis, 2019
ACS Catalysis, 2019
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Reece, C., Luneau, M., & Madix, R. (2019). Dissecting the Performance of Nanoporous Gold Catalysts for Oxygen-Assisted Coupling of Methanol with Fundamental Mechanistic and Kinetic Information. ACS Catalysis.
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Reece, Christian, M. Luneau, and R. Madix. “Dissecting the Performance of Nanoporous Gold Catalysts for Oxygen-Assisted Coupling of Methanol with Fundamental Mechanistic and Kinetic Information.” ACS Catalysis (2019).
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Reece, Christian, et al. “Dissecting the Performance of Nanoporous Gold Catalysts for Oxygen-Assisted Coupling of Methanol with Fundamental Mechanistic and Kinetic Information.” ACS Catalysis, 2019.
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@article{christian2019a,
title = {Dissecting the Performance of Nanoporous Gold Catalysts for Oxygen-Assisted Coupling of Methanol with Fundamental Mechanistic and Kinetic Information},
year = {2019},
journal = {ACS Catalysis},
author = {Reece, Christian and Luneau, M. and Madix, R.}
}
Abstract
The utility of the surface reactivity observed for model systems under ultrahigh vacuum for predicting the performance of catalytic materials under ambient flow conditions is a highly debated topic in heterogeneous catalysis. Herein we show that vast differences in selectivity observed for methanol self-coupling across wide ranges of temperature and reactant pressure can be accurately predicted utilizing the kinetics and mechanism obtained from model studies on gold single crystals in ultrahigh vacuum regressed to fit transient pulse responses over nanoporous gold (Ag0.03Au0.97) at low pressures. Specifically, microkinetic modeling of the complex sequence of elementary steps governing this reaction predicts the dramatic effect of reactant partial pressure on the product distribution and leads to conclusion that the gas phase partial pressures of both reactants and the reaction temperature determine the changes in selectivity to methyl formate formation. Moreover, thorough analysis of the reaction network ...
