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Title: Characterizing substrate–surface interactions on alumina-supported metal catalysts by dynamic nuclear polarization-enhanced double-resonance NMR spectroscopy [Characterizing substrate-surface interactions on alumina supported metal catalysts by DNP-enhanced double-resonance NMR spectroscopy]

Abstract

The characterization of nanometer-scale interactions between carbon-containing substrates and alumina surfaces is of paramount importance to industrial and academic catalysis applications, but it is also very challenging. Here, we demonstrate that dynamic nuclear polarization surface-enhanced NMR spectroscopy (DNP SENS) allows the unambiguous description of the coordination geometries and conformations of the substrates at the alumina surface through high-resolution measurements of 13C–27Al distances. We apply this new technique to elucidate the molecular-level geometry of 13C-enriched methionine and natural abundance poly(vinyl alcohol) adsorbed on γ-Al2O3-supported Pd catalysts, and we support these results with element-specific X-ray absorption near-edge measurements. Furthermore, this work clearly demonstrates a surprising bimodal coordination of methionine at the Pd–Al2O3 interface.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1]; ORCiD logo [4];  [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [5];  [3];  [6]; ORCiD logo [6]
  1. Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
  2. Queen's Univ. Kingston, ON (Canada)
  3. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  4. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME (United States)
  5. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  6. Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1347397
Report Number(s):
IS-J-9224
Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7863
Grant/Contract Number:  
DGE-1256259; EEC-0813570
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 139; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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Perras, Frederic A., Padmos, J. Daniel, Johnson, Robert L., Wang, Lin -Lin, Schwartz, Thomas J., Kobayashi, Takeshi, Horton, J. Hugh, Dumesic, James A., Shanks, Brent H., Johnson, Duane D., and Pruski, Marek. Characterizing substrate–surface interactions on alumina-supported metal catalysts by dynamic nuclear polarization-enhanced double-resonance NMR spectroscopy [Characterizing substrate-surface interactions on alumina supported metal catalysts by DNP-enhanced double-resonance NMR spectroscopy]. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1021/jacs.6b11408.
Perras, Frederic A., Padmos, J. Daniel, Johnson, Robert L., Wang, Lin -Lin, Schwartz, Thomas J., Kobayashi, Takeshi, Horton, J. Hugh, Dumesic, James A., Shanks, Brent H., Johnson, Duane D., & Pruski, Marek. Characterizing substrate–surface interactions on alumina-supported metal catalysts by dynamic nuclear polarization-enhanced double-resonance NMR spectroscopy [Characterizing substrate-surface interactions on alumina supported metal catalysts by DNP-enhanced double-resonance NMR spectroscopy]. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b11408
Perras, Frederic A., Padmos, J. Daniel, Johnson, Robert L., Wang, Lin -Lin, Schwartz, Thomas J., Kobayashi, Takeshi, Horton, J. Hugh, Dumesic, James A., Shanks, Brent H., Johnson, Duane D., and Pruski, Marek. Mon . "Characterizing substrate–surface interactions on alumina-supported metal catalysts by dynamic nuclear polarization-enhanced double-resonance NMR spectroscopy [Characterizing substrate-surface interactions on alumina supported metal catalysts by DNP-enhanced double-resonance NMR spectroscopy]". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b11408. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1347397.
@article{osti_1347397,
title = {Characterizing substrate–surface interactions on alumina-supported metal catalysts by dynamic nuclear polarization-enhanced double-resonance NMR spectroscopy [Characterizing substrate-surface interactions on alumina supported metal catalysts by DNP-enhanced double-resonance NMR spectroscopy]},
author = {Perras, Frederic A. and Padmos, J. Daniel and Johnson, Robert L. and Wang, Lin -Lin and Schwartz, Thomas J. and Kobayashi, Takeshi and Horton, J. Hugh and Dumesic, James A. and Shanks, Brent H. and Johnson, Duane D. and Pruski, Marek},
abstractNote = {The characterization of nanometer-scale interactions between carbon-containing substrates and alumina surfaces is of paramount importance to industrial and academic catalysis applications, but it is also very challenging. Here, we demonstrate that dynamic nuclear polarization surface-enhanced NMR spectroscopy (DNP SENS) allows the unambiguous description of the coordination geometries and conformations of the substrates at the alumina surface through high-resolution measurements of 13C–27Al distances. We apply this new technique to elucidate the molecular-level geometry of 13C-enriched methionine and natural abundance poly(vinyl alcohol) adsorbed on γ-Al2O3-supported Pd catalysts, and we support these results with element-specific X-ray absorption near-edge measurements. Furthermore, this work clearly demonstrates a surprising bimodal coordination of methionine at the Pd–Al2O3 interface.},
doi = {10.1021/jacs.6b11408},
journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
number = 7,
volume = 139,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 23 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Mon Jan 23 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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