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JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
Volume 198, Issue 1, Pages 122-127Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/jcat.2000.3105
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palladium clusters; magnesium oxide films; selectivity; acetylene polymerization; size effects; size-selected clusters; model catalysts
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The polymerization of acetylene was studied by thermal programmed reaction on nanoassembled model catalysts fabricated by soft landing of size-selected palladium Pd, (1 less than or equal to n less than or equal to 30) clusters on well-characterized MgO(100) thin films. In a single-pass heating cycle experiment, benzene, butadiene, and butene were catalyzed with different selectivities as a function of cluster size: palladium atoms selectively produce benzene, and the highest selectivity for butadiene is observed for Pd-6, whereas Pd-20 reveals the highest selectivity for butene. These results provide an atom-by-atom observation of the selectivity of small palladium model catalysts, and extend toward small cluster sizes the study of Ormerod and Lambert on real palladium catalysts, where a structure sensitivity for the cyclotrimerization was observed. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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