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Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications

2021

Methanol

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Methanol Carbonylation To Acetaldehyde On Au Particles Supported By Single-Layer Mos2 Grown On Silica, Kortney Almeida, Katerina Chagoya, Alan Felix, Tao Jiang, Duy Le, Takat B. Rawal, Prescott E. Evans, Michelle Wurch, Koichi Yamaguchi, Peter A. Dowben, Ludwig Bartels, Talat S. Rahman, Richard G. Blair Jan 2021

Methanol Carbonylation To Acetaldehyde On Au Particles Supported By Single-Layer Mos2 Grown On Silica, Kortney Almeida, Katerina Chagoya, Alan Felix, Tao Jiang, Duy Le, Takat B. Rawal, Prescott E. Evans, Michelle Wurch, Koichi Yamaguchi, Peter A. Dowben, Ludwig Bartels, Talat S. Rahman, Richard G. Blair

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications

Homogenous single-layer MoS2 films coated with sub-single layer amounts of gold are found to isolate the reaction of methanol with carbon monoxide, the fundamental step toward higher alcohols, from an array of possible surface reactions. Active surfaces were prepared from homogenous single-layer MoS2 films coated with sub-single layer amounts of gold. These gold atoms formed clusters on the MoS2 surface. A gas mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and methanol (CH3OH) was partially converted to acetaldehyde (CH3CHO) under mild process conditions (308 kPa and 393 K). This carbonylation of methanol to a C2 species …