“…The addition of metal ions, such as Mn, Ti, Zr, Nb, and Fe, promotes the production of oxygenates, including alcohols and aldehydes, in CO hydrogenation on the modified Rh, Ir, and Pd catalysts. , EXAFS, Mössbauer, XPS, and FT-IR studies of such bimetallic catalysts suggest that the promotion is associated with CO activation on surface bimetallic sites of the catalyst and that this promotion enhances the migratory CO insertion into several intermediate adspecies such as methyl and carbene . The intrazeolitic bimetallic clusters are unique, bringing nanostructural alloys with encasing on a nearly molecular scale.…”