Operando chemistry of catalyst surfaces during catalysis

J Dou, Z Sun, AA Opalade, N Wang, W Fu… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemistry of a catalyst surface during catalysis is crucial for a fundamental understanding of
mechanism of a catalytic reaction performed on the catalyst in the gas or liquid phase. Due …

Sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of interfaces

F Vidal, A Tadjeddine - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews aspects of nonlinear optical spectroscopy of interfaces. The emphasis is
put on second-order nonlinear optical techniques, such as sum-frequency generation (SFG) …

Lewis acid sites in MOFs supports promoting the catalytic activity and selectivity for CO esterification to dimethyl carbonate

YP Xu, ZQ Wang, HZ Tan, KQ **g, ZN Xu… - Catalysis Science & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
CO esterification to dimethyl carbonate (DMC) is an attractive route, although the catalyst is
the main problem restricting the industrialization of this route. Supported palladium catalysts …

Controlling surface crowding on a Pd catalyst with thiolate self-assembled monolayers

CA Schoenbaum, DK Schwartz, JW Medlin - Journal of catalysis, 2013 - Elsevier
The relationship between surface crowding and catalytic activity was investigated using
thiolate self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on Pd/Al2O3 catalysts. The surface density of …

Catalyst site selection via control over noncovalent interactions in self-assembled monolayers

G Kumar, CH Lien, MJ Janik, JW Medlin - Acs Catalysis, 2016 - ACS Publications
One strategy for controlling selectivity in surface-catalyzed reactions is to precisely control
the types of surface sites available for reaction. Here, we show that such control can be …

(Pd–CuCl 2)/γ-Al 2 O 3: a high-performance catalyst for carbonylation of methyl nitrite to dimethyl carbonate

DM Lv, ZN Xu, SY Peng, ZQ Wang, QS Chen… - Catalysis Science & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
(Pd–CuCl2)/γ-Al2O3 catalyst with excellent activity and selectivity has been successfully
developed for vapor-phase carbonylation of methyl nitrite to dimethyl carbonate (DMC). It …

Low pressure RAIRS studies of model catalytic systems

EL Wilson, WA Brown - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2010 - ACS Publications
In this review we examine the use of reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) as
a tool for studying model catalyst surfaces. Model catalysts allow us to study the structural …

Hydrothermal aging-induced changes in washcoats of commercial three-way catalysts

A Fathali, L Olsson, F Ekström, M Laurell… - Topics in Catalysis, 2013 - Springer
In order to quantify hydrothermal aging effects on the mono-and bi-metallic Pd and Rh
supported on cerium-zirconium promoted alumina commercial three-way catalysts (TWCs) …

On the complexation kinetics for metallization of organic layers: palladium onto a pyridine-terminated araliphatic thiol film

MI Muglali, J Liu, A Bashir, D Borissov, M Xu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Palladium nanoparticles have been deposited electrochemically onto self-assembled
monolayers (SAMs) of 4-(4-(4-pyridyl) phenyl) phenylmethanethiol. A pronounced …

Hydrogen adsorption sites studied by carbon monoxide adsorption to explain the hydrogenation activity of benzene on Pd and Pt catalysts

CS Chen, JH Lin, HW Chen - Applied Catalysis A: General, 2006 - Elsevier
FT-IR of CO has been employed to study the relations between hydrogen adsorption and
benzene hydrogenation on Pd/SiO2 and Pt/SiO2 catalysts. Three IR bands of CO stretching …