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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages 1301-1306Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00173
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [CHE-1660433]
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A high-flux molecular beam setup has been used to characterize the kinetics of the steady-state catalytic hydrogenation of unsaturated aldehydes, specifically of crotonaldehyde, promoted by platinum surfaces under single-collision conditions. Surprisingly, in addition to the hydrogenation of the individual single bonds, to yield the saturated aldehyde and the unsaturated alcohol, the formation of the saturated alcohol, the product of the hydrogenation of both C=C and C=O bonds, was detected as well. This indicates that the dual hydrogenation reaction is a primary pathway and not the result of secondary hydrogenation of the other products as commonly assumed. Moreover, an increase in the partial pressure of the reactant was found to shift the reaction selectivity from the saturated alcohol to the saturated aldehyde without significantly affecting the selectivity toward the production of the unsaturated alcohol. We explain these observations by proposing a mechanism involving the parallel formation of several monohydrogenated intermediates on the surface.
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