Journal
ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 10, Issue 24, Pages 15142-15148Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c03896
Keywords
structure-activity relation; active site; surface restructure; in situ characterization; radical
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- National Key R&D Program of MOST [2017YFB0602205]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21525313, 91745202, 91945301, 21703227, 21872128]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Changjiang Scholars Program of Ministry of Education of China
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Li-MgO is a typical catalyst for the oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reaction, one of the most challenging reactions in heterogeneous catalysis. Here, we report that the Li additive restructures MgO to enhance the surface density of the fourfold-coordinated Mg2+ site (Mg-4c(2+)) of MgO{110} facets, eventually leading to Li-MgO catalysts exclusively exposing the Mg-4c(2+) site. Such Li-MgO catalysts were observed to efficiently catalyze the OCM reaction by activating methane into a methyl radical intermediate with minimized further dissociations and consequent combustion reactions. These results demonstrate the presence of efficient single-site catalysis involving Mg-4c(2+) of MgO{110} facets in Li-MgO catalysts with high Li contents for the OCM reaction, which might provide some insights in developing industrially viable OCM catalysts.
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