Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Optimizing reaction paths for methanol synthesis from CO2 hydrogenation via metal-ligand cooperativity

  • Yizhen Chen,
  • Hongliang Li,
  • Wanghui Zhao,
  • Wenbo Zhang,
  • Jiawei Li,
  • Wei Li,
  • Xusheng Zheng,
  • Wensheng Yan,
  • Wenhua Zhang,
  • Junfa Zhu,
  • Rui Si,
  • Jie Zeng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09918-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Controlling the reaction path is instrumental for developing efficient catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation. Here, the authors report that the ensemble of Pt single atoms coordinated with oxygen atoms in MIL-101 induces distinct reaction path to improve selective hydrogenation of CO2 into methanol relative to nanocrystal counterparts.