Lars C. Grabow<\/strong>, Depart\u00adment of Chem\u00adi\u00adcal and Bio\u00admol\u00ade\u00adc\u00adu\u00adlar Engi\u00adneer\u00ading, Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Hous\u00adton, Hous\u00adton, TX 77204\u20134004, USA<\/em> <\/p>\n Abstract<\/strong> \u2014 \u201cWhat hap\u00adpens when you add water?\u201d is pos\u00adsi\u00adbly the most fre\u00adquent\u00adly asked ques\u00adtion after pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtions in het\u00adero\u00adge\u00adneous catal\u00ady\u00adsis. In this talk, I will demon\u00adstrate that this ques\u00adtion is indeed para\u00admount and that the pres\u00adence of even minute amounts of water can dras\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly change reac\u00adtion rates and prod\u00aduct selec\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adties. Exam\u00adples include water-medi\u00adat\u00aded pro\u00adton hop\u00adping across a met\u00adal-oxide sur\u00adface, oxi\u00adda\u00adtion of car\u00adbon monox\u00adide at the gold\/titania inter\u00adface, and hydrodeoxy\u00adgena\u00adtion of phe\u00adno\u00adlic com\u00adpounds over tita\u00adnia sup\u00adport\u00aded ruthe\u00adni\u00adum cat\u00ada\u00adlysts. Togeth\u00ader, these exam\u00adples demon\u00adstrate that water can act as co-cat\u00ada\u00adlyst in a vari\u00adety of cat\u00adalyt\u00adic reac\u00adtions and by vary\u00ading the amount of water it may be pos\u00adsi\u00adble to tune reac\u00adtion rates and prod\u00aduct selec\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2018 Spring Sym\u00adpo\u00adsium Lars C. Grabow, Depart\u00adment of Chem\u00adi\u00adcal and Bio\u00admol\u00ade\u00adc\u00adu\u00adlar Engi\u00adneer\u00ading, Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Hous\u00adton, Hous\u00adton, TX 77204\u20134004, USA Abstract \u2014 \u201cWhat hap\u00adpens when you add water?\u201d is pos\u00adsi\u00adbly the most fre\u00adquent\u00adly asked ques\u00adtion after pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtions in het\u00adero\u00adge\u00adneous catal\u00ady\u00adsis. In this talk, I will demon\u00adstrate that this ques\u00adtion is indeed para\u00admount and that the pres\u00adence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstracts","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalysisclubphilly.org\/awe9a91v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalysisclubphilly.org\/awe9a91v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalysisclubphilly.org\/awe9a91v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalysisclubphilly.org\/awe9a91v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalysisclubphilly.org\/awe9a91v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catalysisclubphilly.org\/awe9a91v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/catalysisclubphilly.org\/awe9a91v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalysisclubphilly.org\/awe9a91v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalysisclubphilly.org\/awe9a91v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalysisclubphilly.org\/awe9a91v\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}