The Role of Bridge-Bonded Adsorbed Formate in the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Formic Acid on Platinum
The Role of Bridge-Bonded Adsorbed Formate in the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Formic Acid on Platinum
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201004782
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Gutierrez, Claudio
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作者:
Osawa, Masatoshi;Komatsu, Kei-ichi;Gutierrez, Claudio
The oxidation of formic acid (HCOOH) on platinum electrodes has been extensively investigated as a model electrocatalytic reaction.[1–4] It is generally accepted that HCOOH is oxidized to CO2 through a dual-pathway mechanism: one pathway (the main pathway) involves a fast reaction via a reactive intermediate and the second pathway includes a step in which a poisoning species is formed. This species, which is oxidized to CO2 at high potentials, has been identified as adsorbed CO, which is formed by dehydration of HCOOH. Adsorbed hydroxycarbonyl (COOHads) has long been assumed to be the reactive intermediate in the main pathway,[1–4] but the spectroscopic detection of this species has not been reported to date.By using surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy in the attenuated total reflection mode (ATRSEIRAS),[5] Miki et al.[6] observed that formate is adsorbed in a bridge-bonded configuration on Pt electrodes during HCOOH oxidation. On the basis of systematic time-resolved ATR-SEIRAS analysis of the oxidation dynamics, SamjeskØ et al.[7–9] suggested that adsorbed formate (HCOOads) is a reactive intermediate in the main pathway and its decomposition to CO2 is the rate-determining step (rds). The adsorbed formate is in equilibrium with HCOOH in the bulk solution and the reaction pathway (formate pathway) can be represented by Equation (1)[8–10]