Fischer-Tropsch cobalt catalyst deselectivation was studied using accelerated aging treatments dedicated to the carburization phenomenon. Cobalt carbide successfully obtained by CO treatments, with limited simultaneously carbon deposition nor sintering. Particle sizes were found influence sensitivity carburization, likely because of a possible core–shell mechanism. An important loss both activi...

The iron-based catalyst was prepared by a microemulsion method. The composition of the final nanosized iron catalyst, in terms of the atomic ratio, contains 100Fe/4Cu/2K. The experimental techniques of XRD, BET, TEM, and TPR were used to study the phase, structure, and morphology of the catalyst. Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) reaction test was performed in a fixed bed reactor under pressure o...

Hydroxycarbene complexes have been proposed as intermediates in industrial processes such as the Fischer-Tropsch process and hydroformylation. As part of the overall synthesis of an aryltethered version of a chromium hydroxycarbene complex we have examined three synthetic routes toward the brominated biphenyl chromium tricarbonyl compound (η-2’-bromobiphenyl)Cr(CO)3, which is an immediate precu...