Catalytic conversion of carbon monoxide

In the early 1920s Badische Arulin- und Soda-Fabrik aimounced the specific catalytic conversion of carbon monoxide and hydrogen at 20—30 MPa (200—300 atm) and 300—400°C to methanol (12,13), a process subsequendy widely industrialized. At the same time Fischer and Tropsch aimounced the Synth in e process (14,15), in which an iron catalyst effects the reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen to produce a mixture of alcohols, aldehydes (qv), ketones (qv), and fatty acids at atmospheric pressure. 

Twenty-Five Years of Synthesis of Gasoline by Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen Helmut Pichler... 

Pichler, H. 1952. Twenty-five years of synthesis of gasoline by catalytic conversion of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Adv. Catal. 4 271-341. 

D. Patents of Pier and Winkler (7) (1923) for controlled catalytic conversion of carbon monoxide and hydrogen to methanol exclusively (ZnO-Cr2Os catalyst). 

Catalytic properties of Y zeolite containing iron species were studied in a separate series of combined catalytic and in-situ Mdssbauer measurements [3]. Even at 720 K the extra-framework iron species could not be reduced with hydrogen to the metallic state. Nevertheless, in presence of hydrogen a significant catalytic conversion of carbon monoxide was observed at 670 K. It could be evidenced that x-iron carbide directly formed from Fe(ll) ions under the experimental conditions of this catalytic reactions was the catalytically active component. 

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