Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Rate and selectivity hysteresis during the carbon monoxide hydrogenation over promoted Co/MnOx catalysts

  • Yizhi Xiang,
  • Libor Kovarik,
  • Norbert Kruse

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11836-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The question for the structure-reactivity relationship of cobalt-based catalysts for the carbon monoxide hydrogenation is as old as the reaction itself. Here the authors show kinetic hysteresis for a potassium-promoted cobalt-manganese oxide catalyst to be driven by the Co-Co2C phase transition.