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Title: Chloroform Hydrodechlorination on Palladium Surfaces: A Comparative DFT Study on Pd(111), Pd(100), and Pd(211)

Abstract

Palladium has been shown to be an effective catalyst for chloroform hydrodechlorination, which serves as a promising treatment method for industrial chloroform waste. To investigate the structure sensitivity of this chemistry on Pd surfaces, we performed a density functional theory (DFT, GGA-PW91) study of the chloroform hydrodechlorination reaction on three distinct facets: Pd(111), Pd(100), and Pd(211). Based on the DFT results, the binding strengths of most surface intermediates generally increase in the following order: Pd(111) < Pd(100) < Pd(211). On all three Pd facets, methane is formed as the preferred reaction product through a pathway in which CHCl3* is fully dechlorinated to CH* first, and then hydrogenated to CH4. We constructed potential energy diagrams (PED) and compared the reaction energetics for chloroform hydrodechlorination on the three Pd facets. We propose that the competition between the desorption of chloroform and its initial dechlorination to form CHCl2* likely determines the hydrodechlorination activity of the catalyst. On Pd(111), the desorption of chloroform is energetically favored over its dechlorination while the dechlorination barriers are lower than the desorption barriers on Pd(100) and Pd(211). On the other hand, Pd(100) and Pd(211) bind atomic chlorine stronger and also catalyze the formation of atomic carbon effectively; bothmore » are potential site-blocking species. Our results suggest that the more open facets and step edge sites of a Pd nanoparticle may carry higher intrinsic activity towards chloroform hydrodechlorination than the close-packed facets, yet these under-coordinated sites are more prone to catalyst poisoning.« less

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  1. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
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Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
Contributing Org.:
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
OSTI Identifier:
1616958
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-05ER15731; AC02‐06CH11357; AC02‐05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Topics in Catalysis
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 63; Journal ID: ISSN 1022-5528
Publisher:
Springer
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Chloroform; Hydrodechlorination; Density functional theory; Palladium; Structure sensitivity

Citation Formats

Xu, Lang, Bhandari, Saurabh, Chen, Jiming, Glasgow, Jonathan, and Mavrikakis, Manos. Chloroform Hydrodechlorination on Palladium Surfaces: A Comparative DFT Study on Pd(111), Pd(100), and Pd(211). United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1007/s11244-019-01218-6.
Xu, Lang, Bhandari, Saurabh, Chen, Jiming, Glasgow, Jonathan, & Mavrikakis, Manos. Chloroform Hydrodechlorination on Palladium Surfaces: A Comparative DFT Study on Pd(111), Pd(100), and Pd(211). United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-019-01218-6
Xu, Lang, Bhandari, Saurabh, Chen, Jiming, Glasgow, Jonathan, and Mavrikakis, Manos. Mon . "Chloroform Hydrodechlorination on Palladium Surfaces: A Comparative DFT Study on Pd(111), Pd(100), and Pd(211)". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-019-01218-6. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1616958.
@article{osti_1616958,
title = {Chloroform Hydrodechlorination on Palladium Surfaces: A Comparative DFT Study on Pd(111), Pd(100), and Pd(211)},
author = {Xu, Lang and Bhandari, Saurabh and Chen, Jiming and Glasgow, Jonathan and Mavrikakis, Manos},
abstractNote = {Palladium has been shown to be an effective catalyst for chloroform hydrodechlorination, which serves as a promising treatment method for industrial chloroform waste. To investigate the structure sensitivity of this chemistry on Pd surfaces, we performed a density functional theory (DFT, GGA-PW91) study of the chloroform hydrodechlorination reaction on three distinct facets: Pd(111), Pd(100), and Pd(211). Based on the DFT results, the binding strengths of most surface intermediates generally increase in the following order: Pd(111) < Pd(100) < Pd(211). On all three Pd facets, methane is formed as the preferred reaction product through a pathway in which CHCl3* is fully dechlorinated to CH* first, and then hydrogenated to CH4. We constructed potential energy diagrams (PED) and compared the reaction energetics for chloroform hydrodechlorination on the three Pd facets. We propose that the competition between the desorption of chloroform and its initial dechlorination to form CHCl2* likely determines the hydrodechlorination activity of the catalyst. On Pd(111), the desorption of chloroform is energetically favored over its dechlorination while the dechlorination barriers are lower than the desorption barriers on Pd(100) and Pd(211). On the other hand, Pd(100) and Pd(211) bind atomic chlorine stronger and also catalyze the formation of atomic carbon effectively; both are potential site-blocking species. Our results suggest that the more open facets and step edge sites of a Pd nanoparticle may carry higher intrinsic activity towards chloroform hydrodechlorination than the close-packed facets, yet these under-coordinated sites are more prone to catalyst poisoning.},
doi = {10.1007/s11244-019-01218-6},
journal = {Topics in Catalysis},
number = ,
volume = 63,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Mon Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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