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ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages 5213-5224Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c00248
Keywords
heterogeneous catalysis; reaction mechanism; active species; in situ characterization; DFT calculations
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This study investigates the reactivity of OH and hydride species in oxide-catalyzed hydrogenation reactions. Experimental and theoretical results show that surface oxygen vacancies and hydride species on ceria surfaces enhance the semihydrogenation of C2H2 to C2H4, but also lead to decreased selectivity and stability.
Reactivity of OH and hydride species in oxide catalyzed hydrogenation reactions has attracted great interest. Herein, we report a combined in situ spectroscopic characterization and density functional theory (DFT) calculation study of ceriacatalyzed acetylene semihydrogenation reaction. The ceria surface is fully hydroxylated during the adopted reaction condition. C2H2 adsorbs molecularly on the stoichiometric CeO2 surface and hydrogenates with OH groups selectively to produce C2H4. Semihydrogenation of C2H2 to C2H4 with either OH groups or hydride species on ceria surfaces with surface oxygen vacancies proceeds more facilely than on a stoichiometric CeO2 surface, but C2H4 adsorbs more strongly and further hydrogenates to C2H6 more facilely; moreover, dissociative adsorption of C2H2 to C2H species occurs, which facilely hydrogenates with the hydride species eventually to form C2H6 and react with each other to produce oligomers, decreasing the catalytic selectivity and stability, respectively. These results demonstrate that the ceria catalyst with a stoichiometric surface is extremely selective in catalyzing C2H2 semihydrogenation reaction to C2H4, whereas surface oxygen vacancies or hydride species on ceria are harmful to the catalytic performance.
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