First-Principles Study of C2 Oxygenates Synthesis Directly from Syngas over CoCu Bimetallic Catalysts

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• 作者：Xin-Chao Xu ; Junjie Su ; Pengfei Tian ; Donglong Fu ; Weiwei Dai ; Wei Mao ; Wei-Kang Yuan ; Jing Xu ; Yi-Fan Han
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：January 8, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：119
• 期：1
• 页码：216-227
• 全文大小：583K
• ISSN：1932-7455

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Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were used to study C₂ oxygenate from syngas over bimetallic Co/Cu catalysts. The thermodynamics and kinetics for all possible elementary steps involved in the formation of C₂ oxygenate from syngas have been investigated on both pure and Cu-doped Co(0001) surfaces. By comparing the results on two surfaces, the role of copper in improving the selectivity toward C₂ oxygenates has been identified as two aspects: (1) controlling the Co ensemble size and blocking the active sites for C鈥揙 bond cleavage, which results in inhibition of CH_x coupling to hydrocarbons; (2) providing undissociated CO/HCO as well as reducing the barriers for HCO insertion toward the formation of oxygenate precursors. With the combination of the mechanistic study and the charge analysis on the bimetallic surface, we conclude that the nature of the copper promotion is mainly a geometric effect rather than an electronic effect.