1 State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, China. panxl@dicp.ac.cn xhbao@dicp.ac.cn.
A composite catalyst combining the partially reducible ZnCrOx with zeolite ZSM-5 enables direct conversion of syngas to aromatics, with a selectivity to aromatics reaching 73.9% at a single pass CO conversion of 16.0%.