A study of the catalytically active copper species in the synthesis of methanol on Cu–ZnO by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 24,p. 1405-1407
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39820001405
Abstract
X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopic studies on reduced Cu–ZnO catalysts have revealed that Cu1+ is present in low Cu content catalysts together with two distinct type of Cu metal species, one of which is preferentially reoxidized to Cu1+ on exposure to air at room temperature and is proposed as the catalytically active species together with Cu1+ for the synthesis of methanol CO and H2.Keywords
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