The paper investigated the influence of distrib
ution of palladium-gold on kinetic parameters, activity, selectivity, surface a
ppearance of active components, and temperatureprogrammed reduction (TPR) of vinyl acetate synthesis catalyst. Experiment on different catalysts showed that egg-shell type catalyst with surface distribution has better surface dispersion,lo
w activation energy for main reaction and higher activation energy for side reac
tion. As the result, it has higher activity and selectivity than egg-white type
and homogeneous catalysts. TPR results showed that catalyst with heterogeneous distribution has two peaks while that with homogeneous distribution has only one peak.