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ACS CATALYSIS
卷 7, 期 6, 页码 4152-4162出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b00520
关键词
subnanometer cluster catalysts; Pt atom catalysis; single atom catalysis; hydrogenation; size effects
资金
- King Abdullah University of Saudi-Arabia [KSA-C0069/UKC0020]
- DFG [HE3454/23-1]
The use of physicochemical preparation techniques of metal clusters in the ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) allows for high control of cluster nuclearity and size distribution for fundamental studies in catalysis. Surprisingly, the potential of these systems as catalysts for organic chemistry transformations in solution has not been explored. To this end, single Pt atoms and Pt clusters with two narrow size distributions were prepared in the UHV and applied for the hydrogenation of p-chloronitrobenzene to p-chloroaniline in ethanol. Following the observation of very high catalytic turnovers (approaching the million molecules of p-nitroaniline formed per Pt cluster) and of size-dependent activity, this work addresses fundamental questions with respect to the suitability of these systems as heterogeneous catalysts for the conversion of solution-phase reagents. For this purpose, we employ scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterization before and after reaction to assess the stability of the clusters on the support and the question of heterogeneity versus homogeneity in the catalytic process.
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