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Tracer studies with C labeled ethene show that for synthesis over a doubly promoted iron catalyst at 7 atm and ca. 60% CO conversion, higher carbon number products are formed from ethene initiation. About 10% of the added ethene (ethene/CO ∼ 0.02) is incorporated into C +5 products and that ca. 85% of the ethene that is incorporated does so by initiating chain growth.
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Tau, L.M., Dabbagh, H.A., Chawla, B. et al. Fischer-Tropsch synthesis with an iron catalyst: Incorporation of ethene into higher carbon number alkanes. Catal Lett 7, 141–149 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00764497
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