Time scale and elementary steps of CO-induced disintegration of surface rhodium clusters
Time scale and elementary steps of CO-induced disintegration of surface rhodium clusters
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10.1002/anie.200352318
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发表时间:
2003-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Iwasawa, Y
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作者:
Suzuki, A;Inada, Y;Iwasawa, Y
4795 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 4795–4799 DOI: 10.1002/anie. 200352318 2003 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim metal sites in supported metal cluster/nanoparticle catalysts, such as the time scale of formation and disintegration of the active structure induced by reaction gases and the sequence of bond rearrangements involved in the dynamic event on the surfaces. The in situ time-resolved structural characterization of surface metal clusters and nanoparticles by energydispersive X-ray absorption fine structure (DXAFS) is essential to document their dynamic property on an atomic basis, which has been a long-term challenge to be addressed. We have succeeded in observing the CO-induced disintegration process of Rh clusters on an Al2O3 surface by DXAFS every 100 ms. Previous static studies on the similar surface phenomenon have been performed by IR,[1–3] XAFS,[4, 5] and STM,[5, 6] which revealed the structural modification of highly dispersed Rh nanoparticles/Al2O3 catalysts that leads to the formation of isolated Rh (CO) 2 species by CO adsorption. The DXAFS technique has been developed and improved to provide in situ structural information on dispersed catalytic materials at a time resolution of 1 s—several 10 s.[7–25] Herein, we report novel issues found by the time-resolved DXAFS characterization of the structural disintegrity of Rh clusters on an Al2O3 surface, namely, the time scale and sequence of dynamic bond rearrangements in the clusters and at the interface.