Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhao G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5253635 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhao Guofeng G Yang Fan F Chen Zongjia Z Liu Qingfei Q Ji Yongjun Y Zhang Yi Y Niu Zhiqiang Z Mao Junjie J Bao Xinhe X Hu Peijun P Li Yadong Y
Nature communications 20170118
A main obstacle in the rational development of heterogeneous catalysts is the difficulty in identifying active sites. Here we show metal/oxide interfacial sites are highly active for the oxidation of benzyl alcohol and other industrially important primary alcohols on a range of metals and oxides combinations. Scanning tunnelling microscopy together with density functional theory calculations on FeO/Pt(111) reveals that benzyl alcohol enriches preferentially at the oxygen-terminated FeO/Pt(111) i ...[more]