Cover Feature: CO Hydrogenation to Methanol over Cu/MgO Catalysts and Their Synthesis from Amorphous Magnesian Georgeite Precursors (ChemCatChem 17/2022)

Cu‐Co/ZnAl2O4 Catalysts for CO Conversion to Higher Alcohols Synthesized from Co‐Precipitated Hydrotalcite Precursors

“…These results already established the composition dependency of selectivity on a ternary catalyst component such as chromium. Addition of zinc is known to have an enormous effect on methanol synthesis on copper‐based catalysts being able to tune the reactant selectivity between carbon monoxide and dioxide 18, but the presence of zinc in Cu‐Co tri‐metallic catalysts for HAS is not studied to an extent comparable to methanol synthesis. So far it is well understood that ZnO acts as a steric promoter preventing sintering and suppresses methane formation due to intermediate stabilization in CuCoZnAl containing catalysts.…”