CO2 Hydrogenation on Cu/Al2O3: Role of Metal/Support Interface in Driving Activity and Selectivity of a Bifunctional Catalyst
Our work on the selective hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol on Cu/Al2O3 prepared by Surface Organometallic Chemistry has been recently published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
This work shows that Cu/Al2O3 prepared via Surface Organometallic Chemistry shows exceptionally high activity towards CO2 hydrogenation when compared to the Cu/SiO2, yielding Methanol, dimethyl ether and CO as products. A Combination of advanced operando spectroscopy and DFT calculation shows that the reaction pathway involves formate intermediates and that the increase of rate originates from the metal‐oxide interface
Read the publication on the external pageAngewante Chemie website.