Selectivity switching resulting in the formation of benzene by surface carbonates on ceria in catalytic gas-phase oxidation of benzyl alcohol

Affiliations

• ¹ Key Lab of Applied Chemistry of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China and School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637459, Singapore.
• ² Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Centre for Computational Chemistry and Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, People's Republic of China.
• ³ Key Lab of Applied Chemistry of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China.
• ⁴ School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637459, Singapore.