Impact of pH on Aqueous-Phase Phenol Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Pt and Rh

Singh, Nirala; Lee, Mal-Soon; Akhade, Sneha A.; Cheng, Guanhua; Camaioni, Donald M.; Gutiérrez, Oliver Y.; Glezakou, Vassiliki-Alexandra; Rousseau, Roger; Lercher, Johannes A.; Campbell, Charles T.

doi:10.1021/acscatal.8b04039

Title: Impact of pH on Aqueous-Phase Phenol Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Pt and Rh

Journal Article · Wed Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2018 · ACS Catalysis

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b04039· OSTI ID:1507529

Singh, Nirala ^[1]; Lee, Mal-Soon ^[2];

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^[2]; Lercher, Johannes A. ^[4];

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Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105-1700, United States; Institute for Integrated Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
Institute for Integrated Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
Institute for Integrated Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States; Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105-1700, United States

In aqueous phase, the rates of hydrogenation of aromatic substrates such as phenol on Pt/C and Rh/C are influenced by varying activity of hydronium ions. Decreasing the pH from 8 to 1 increases the rate of hydrogenation of phenol on Pt at 20 bar H2 by 15-fold. This increase is attributed to weakening of the hydrogen binding energy (HBE) on the metal surface with decreasing pH. A weaker HBE at lower pH is also predicted by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, providing atomistic insight into the impact of electrolyte ion distribution and interfacial solvent reorganization on HBE. The lower HBE results in a decrease in the activation energy for addition of adsorbed H from the metal to the adsorbed organic (with a Brønsted-Evans-Polanyi slope of ~1). The kinetic model derived accounts also for the lack of pH dependence at low hydrogen coverages (at 1 bar H2 on Pt or up to 70 bar H2 on Rh), when the weakening of the HBE decreases the hydrogen coverage. The research described in this paper is part of the Chemical Transformation Initiative at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), conducted under the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at PNNL, a multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy. N.S. acknowledges the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Fellowship. C.T.C. acknowledges the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences Division Grant No. DE-FG02-96ER14630 for support of this work.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1507529

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-138664

Journal Information:: ACS Catalysis, Vol. 9, Issue 2; ISSN 2155-5435

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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