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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 122, 期 43, 页码 10610-10614出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja0004985
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The Fischer-Tropsch and higher oxygenate syntheses by hydrogenation of CO were two of the most intensively studied catalytic reactions of the last century, yet a complete understanding of their underlying mechanisms remains elusive. Promotion of the reactions by alkali metal coadsorption is often regarded as being due to enhanced CQ dissociation, but a recent experimentally determined surface structure for Co-{1010}/(K + CO) indicates that more subtle processes may also be involved. This highly unusual structure, having no analogue in three-dimensional chemistry, is now reproduced using first-principles density functional theory. Our analysis of mixed-orbital bonding states demonstrates not only the importance of synergic processes in promoting CO dissociation, but also the existence of a remarkably strong alkali-induced polarization of the C-O bond itself. This polarized bond would be highly reactive in the presence of H-2. The implications for heterogeneous catalysis in general are profound, since the importance of promoter-induced molecular polarization has hitherto been largely ignored.
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