Explore: Cobalt Catalysts

metal, i.e., iron vs cobalt. While group 1 alkali metals (e.g., potassium), help iron catalysts, they poison cobalt catalysts. Catalysts are supported on

rhodium-based catalysts are usually used for the hydroformylation of propene. The rhodium catalysts are significantly more expensive than cobalt catalysts. In the

polyester resin systems. Cobalt-based catalysts are used in reactions involving carbon monoxide. Cobalt is also a catalyst in the Fischer–Tropsch process

material are water oxidation catalysts. The tetrahydrate Co3(PO4)2•4H2O precipitates as a solid upon mixing aqueous solutions of cobalt(II) and phosphate salts

future development. Catalysts for artificial photosynthesis are expected to effect turn over numbers in the millions. Catalysts often corrode in water

polymers: Cobalt acetate is a precursor to various oil drying agents, catalysts that allow paints and varnishes to harden. Anhydrous cobalt acetate is

from optically active propylene oxide, but at a high cost. A salen cobalt catalyst was reported in 2005 to provide isotactic polymerization of the prochiral

hydrometallurgical purification of cobalt from its ores. It is an inorganic pigment, and a precursor to catalysts. Cobalt(II) carbonate also occurs as the

is produced by the oxidation of cyclohexane in air, typically using cobalt catalysts: C6H12 + O2 → (CH2)5CO + H2O This process forms cyclohexanol as a by-product

the parent member of a family of hydroformylation catalysts. Each molecule consists of two cobalt atoms bound to eight carbon monoxide ligands, although