Catalytic reactions studied by angle-resolved product desorption
Catalytic reactions studied by angle-resolved product desorption
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通过角分辨产物解吸研究催化反应
DOI:
10.1039/9781849732772-00139
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发表时间:
2010
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通讯作者:
Kosuke Shobatake
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作者:
Tatsuo Matsushima;Kosuke Shobatake
The main goal of catalysis chemistry has been to identify and design active reaction sites since the proposal of an active center theory by Taylor in 1925.1 This concept is still valid even on well-defined single crystal surfaces. The activity of sites is not always homogeneous, not even on defect-free surfaces, and only limited sites are active to key processes, for example, a rate-limiting step. 2 Only limited adsorbed species can participate in the reaction pathway. Thus, active sites and intermediates must be directly identified through the reaction itself, in addition to surveying their static features by means of suitable surface spectroscopy. Although many chemical-kinetic simulations3 and spectroscopic surface-species assignments have been used, 4 no suitable methods have been established for the direct identification of reaction sites because of the lack of information of nascent surface products before energy dissipation. Recently, angle-resolved product desorption analysis has been recognized as one of the direct approaches to sites for product formation or to active intermediates emitting fragments. 5, 6 This method is based on product analysis before energy dissipation and in angle-resolved ways. On the other hand, the former kinetics and spectroscopy analyze products and intermediates either without cautions toward their energy or after energy dissipation. This difference is essential for a direct approach to sites or intermediates as frequently seen in gas-phase reaction studies, in which products are analyzed before energy dissipation. 7 In surface reactions, the well-known rapid energy transfer from nascent products to metal surfaces has brought about a situation in which reactions are primarily studied from the viewpoint of chemical kinetics. In fact, this energy transfer is completed on the order of picoseconds on metal surfaces, by which time species observed by surface spectroscopy have already been thermalised to the surface temperature. 8 In addition, the surface residence time of trapped species is long, on the order of nanoseconds, even in physical adsorption at around 400 K. Nascent products once trapped on metal surfaces are completely thermalised to the surface temperature before desorption. Generally speaking, it remains difficult to examine the transition state (TS) conformation in a surface reaction from an experimental viewpoint. The density functional theory (DFT) with a generalized gradient approximation (GGA) has yielded many proposals for TS configurations, for example; however, no experimental verification has been provided. 9, 10 At present, there is no method for determining the energy distributions of nascent products on metal surfaces. Thus, only limited surface reactions, which emit product molecules with hyperthermal energy, have been examined for the direct aCatalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, North 21 West 10, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan bInternational Planning & Cooperation Headquarter, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya,