Reagent-Triggered Isomerization of Fluxional Cluster Catalyst via Dynamic Coupling
Abstract
Metallic cluster catalysts have many thermodynamically accessible isomers with diverse active sites and low reaction barriers, and lately a strong hypothesis emerged that the many catalyst states collectively drive the catalysis. Furthermore, it remained a hypothesis that catalyst isomerization is actually kinetically feasible under the current reaction conditions. Using high-temperature dynamics simulations and sampling, a range of orientations, and vibrational energy distributions, we probe how thermal effects and molecular events affect cluster catalyst dynamics. We show that even such a delicate affair as the dissociation or scattering of a methane molecule on the heavy and thus slow Pt13 cluster triggers substantial isomerization of the catalyst, far beyond thermal at 700 K. A kinetic coupling between the methane activity and cluster catalyst dynamics is observed. In return, the thermal dynamics of the cluster affects the methane reaction and scattering probabilities. Hence, molecular events at the surfaces of fluxional cluster catalysts should facilitate the population of an ensemble of catalyst states under the current reaction conditions, with implications for available active sites, reaction mechanisms, and apparent rates.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); California NanoSystems Inst., Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1755397
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019152; AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1948-7185
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Hydrocarbons; Platinum; Catalysts; Cluster chemistry; Computational chemistry
Citation Formats
Guo, Han, Sautet, Philippe, and Alexandrova, Anastassia N. Reagent-Triggered Isomerization of Fluxional Cluster Catalyst via Dynamic Coupling. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00548.
Guo, Han, Sautet, Philippe, & Alexandrova, Anastassia N. Reagent-Triggered Isomerization of Fluxional Cluster Catalyst via Dynamic Coupling. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00548
Guo, Han, Sautet, Philippe, and Alexandrova, Anastassia N. Mon .
"Reagent-Triggered Isomerization of Fluxional Cluster Catalyst via Dynamic Coupling". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00548. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1755397.
@article{osti_1755397,
title = {Reagent-Triggered Isomerization of Fluxional Cluster Catalyst via Dynamic Coupling},
author = {Guo, Han and Sautet, Philippe and Alexandrova, Anastassia N.},
abstractNote = {Metallic cluster catalysts have many thermodynamically accessible isomers with diverse active sites and low reaction barriers, and lately a strong hypothesis emerged that the many catalyst states collectively drive the catalysis. Furthermore, it remained a hypothesis that catalyst isomerization is actually kinetically feasible under the current reaction conditions. Using high-temperature dynamics simulations and sampling, a range of orientations, and vibrational energy distributions, we probe how thermal effects and molecular events affect cluster catalyst dynamics. We show that even such a delicate affair as the dissociation or scattering of a methane molecule on the heavy and thus slow Pt13 cluster triggers substantial isomerization of the catalyst, far beyond thermal at 700 K. A kinetic coupling between the methane activity and cluster catalyst dynamics is observed. In return, the thermal dynamics of the cluster affects the methane reaction and scattering probabilities. Hence, molecular events at the surfaces of fluxional cluster catalysts should facilitate the population of an ensemble of catalyst states under the current reaction conditions, with implications for available active sites, reaction mechanisms, and apparent rates.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00548},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters},
number = 8,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
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