Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Silica accelerates the selective hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol on cobalt catalysts

  • Lingxiang Wang,
  • Erjia Guan,
  • Yeqing Wang,
  • Liang Wang,
  • Zhongmiao Gong,
  • Yi Cui,
  • Xiangju Meng,
  • Bruce C. Gates,
  • Feng-Shou Xiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14817-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The hydrogenation of CO2 into valuable chemicals is greatly demanded, but suffers from complex product distribution. Here, the authors reported that, as a support and ligand, silica boosts cobalt catalysts to selectively hydrogenate CO2 into the desired methanol product.