Influence of carbon deposition on the hydrogen distribution in Pd nanoparticles and their reactivity in olefin hydrogenation.
Influence of carbon deposition on the hydrogen distribution in Pd nanoparticles and their reactivity in olefin hydrogenation.
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10.1002/anie.200801923
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2008-11
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M. Wilde;K. Fukutani;Wiebke Ludwig;Björn Brandt;Janina Fischer;S. Schauermann;H. Freund
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M. Wilde;K. Fukutani;Wiebke Ludwig;Björn Brandt;Janina Fischer;S. Schauermann;H. Freund
The accumulation of carbonaceous deposits resulting from the early decomposition of the reactants is recognized to considerably affect the activity and the selectivity in hydrocarbon conversions promoted by transition metals.[1] The underlying microscopic mechanisms of carbon-induced changes in reactivity have recently been addressed using the surface science approach for the selective hydrogenation of alkynes [2] and the isomerization and hydrogenation of alkenes.[3] In particular, we have shown that sustained activity toward hydrogenation of the olefinic double bond can be achieved only in the presence of co-adsorbed strongly dehydrogenated carbonaceous deposits.[3] However, the exact role that these carbon species play in the promotion of the persistent hydrogenation activity remained unknown. Generally, promotion of olefin hydrogenation appears to be closely connected to the adsorption state of hydrogen atoms on the metal catalyst. The traditional opinion that only surface hydrogen species are involved in the hydrogenation process [1] was questioned for the first time by Ceyer et al.[4] More recent studies on supported nanoparticles [5, 6] revealed the crucial role of weakly bound volume-absorbed hydrogen species in alkene hydrogenation. Specifically, high hydrogenation activity under low-pressure conditions was observed on Pd clusters but not on single crystals; this was attributed to the unique ability of the small particles to store large amounts of hydrogen atoms in a confined volume. Still, the involvement of the volume-absorbed hydrogen atoms in the olefin hydrogenation remained a controversial issue, mainly because of the experimental difficulty in detecting the hydrogen species present under the isothermal reaction conditions.Recently, we overcame this limitation by applying 1H-(15N, ag) 12C nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) for hydrogen depth profiling to separately monitor the surface-adsorbed and volume-absorbed hydrogen species in Pd nanoparticles supported on a model oxide film. We reported the first direct observation of substantial hydrogen absorption in the volume of metal clusters under low pressure conditions.[7] In the present study, we combine NRA hydrogen depth profiling of Pd nanoparticles with transient molecular beam reactivity measurements to answer two closely related questions: 1) What is the role of the different hydrogen species in the hydrogenation of the olefinic double bond, and 2) how do the carbonaceous deposits affect the hydrogen distribution in the Pd nanoparticles to promote the sustained catalytic activity? As a result, we obtained the first direct experimental evidence that the presence of H absorbed in the Pd particle volume is required for olefin hydrogenation. We further show that even a submonolayer coverage of carbon significantly affects the H depth distribution in the Pd particles. We attribute the sustained hydrogenation activity, promoted by carbonaceous deposits, to the facilitation of H diffusion into the particle volume under the reaction conditions, which results in the enhanced ability of the Pd clusters to replenish the volume-absorbed H atoms required for hydrogenation. Our experimental approach is illustrated in Figure 1. We employed well-defined Pd model catalysts prepared in situ under ultra-high-vacuum conditions on model thin oxide films.[8] The catalytic activity of the Pd clusters in the reaction of cis-2-butene with D2 was probed by molecular beams (MB) under isothermal conditions (Figure1a). Under identical conditions, complementary high-resolution hydrogen depth profiling by grazing ion incidence NRA was performed, which distinguishes surface-adsorbed H from H …