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Selectivity, activity and metal-support interactions of Group VIII bimetallic catalysts. Progress report, 15 August 1984-15 October 1985

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6348692
In this report, we outline progress during the last year on our program to investigate bimetallic interaction in the systems Rh-Pt and Ru-Cu. In both cases, we are primarily interested in the effect of support on the nature and degree of interaction. For Rh-Pt, the interacting support is TiO/sub 2/ and the reaction used to probe the interaction is CO hydrogenation. As we had previously deduced from the investigation of hydrogenolysis, the relative activity of the Rh-Pt/TiO/sub 2/ series for CO hydrogenation is consistent with there being Rh enrichment on the small bimetallic clusters. For the Ru-Cu bimetallic system the support of interest is SiO/sub 2/. The degree of interaction between the metals depends on the kind of SiO/sub 2/ used. Hydrogen chemisorption, cyclohexane hydrogenolysis and dehydrogenation were used as the catalytic probes of support effects on metal-metal interaction. As a part of our continuing investigation of support influence on bimetallic interaction, the metal-oxide interaction of Rh/TiO/sub 2/ and Rh/V/sub 2/O/sub 3/ have been compared. While the gross features of and effects on this interaction are the same, the mechanism is apparently different. 23 refs., 1 tab.
Research Organization:
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (USA). Dept. of Chemical Engineering
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-81ER10829
OSTI ID:
6348692
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/10829-6; ON: DE86003857
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English