Characterization of Pt-Ru/C catalysts by X-ray absorption spectroscopy and temperature-programmed surface reaction

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) was employed to characterize carbon black supported Pt-Ru catalysts, which are commercially available to be utilized as the anode of polymeric-electrolyte-membrane fuel cells. Both Pt and Ru were found partially oxidized in the as-received form. Upon exposure to hydrogen at room temperature, the catalysts were completely reduced to the metallic state. The bimetallic nanoparticles on the Pt-Ru/C catalysts possess an inner core enriched in Pt, which is surrounded by a Ru-rich outer shell. Such a core–shell structure retained even at an elevated reduction temperature of 623 K. Temperature-programmed surface reaction (TPSR) was carried out to explore the reactivity of adsorbed CO toward hydrogen on various catalysts. Both the peak temperature of the TPSR profile and the amount of methane generated during the course of TPSR were sensitive to the surface composition of Pt–Ru nanoparticles. In combination of XAS and TPSR results, a slight difference in the nanostructure between two Pt-Ru/C catalysts was manifested.     

Kinetic characterization of the reduction of silica supported cobalt catalysts

Abstact  The reduction process of silica supported cobalt catalyst was studied by thermal analysis technique. The reduction of the catalyst proceeds in two steps:

Kinetic coupling and selectivity pattern in consecutive heterogeneous catalytic reactions

The kinetic coupling in the case of complex coupled catalytic reactions leads to substantial changes in selectivity. The consecutive catalytic reaction mechanism of type A^(+B)C^(+B)D is considered and it is demonstrated that the selectivity pattern is determined by the pressure of B.     

Kinetic investigations on the photopolymerization of di- and tetrafunctional methacrylic monomers in polymeric matrices. ESR and calorimetric studies. II. Postpolymerization reactions

The reaction kinetics in the dark of photopolymerized mono- and dimethacrylates in a polymeric binder has been studied. Electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR) provided useful information regarding the nature of the radicals involved in postpolymerization reactions. Computer simulations were performed to study the decay of the propagating radicals by considering normal bimolecular termination and transfer reactions of the radicals to the binder. Differences were found in the termination reactions for mono- and difunctional monomers when they were photopolymerized in a solid medium. Absolute kinetic constants for H-transfer reaction with the binder, relative kinetic rate constants for radical–radical coupling, and average lifetimes for the radicals have been calculated. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 36: 2785–2791, 1998     

Kinetic study of surface reactions of O2 and H2 on polycrystalline copper

Adsorption and transformation of O₂, H₂, water and methanol on polycrystalline copper in the 300–400 K range have been studied by surface potential variations. In particular, O₂ reacts with H(a) to form OH(a) with a first order kinetic law, whereas OH(a) reacts with H₂ to form water which desorbs and restores H(a) with an Elovich kinetic law.     

烷基化催化剂表面酸性及催化性能的动力学研究

在确定关联升温速率、脱附峰温和脱附峰覆盖率的程序升温脱附动力学模型的基础上，通过TPD实验和模型参数估值，建立了表征催化剂酸密度、酸强度及强度分布情况的方法。研究表明，随着活化温度的提高，固体酸催化剂表面酸中心强度分布先变宽后趋于均匀，350?℃活化催化剂的强度分布最宽；催化剂表面酸强度和酸密度随活化温度提高均呈先增大后降低、分别在350 ℃和250 ℃活化温度达到极大值的变化规律。催化剂酸性与催化性能关联的结果表明，随着活化温度的提高，烷基化反应速率常数与总脱附量的变化趋势相同，而催化剂失活速率常数与脱附活化能变化趋势相同；催化剂活性稳定性随其酸强度的增大而变差，催化剂活性与催化剂酸量和酸强度有关。     

A unified theory for the kinetic analysis of solid state reactions under any thermal pathway

The Ozawa concept of generalized time has been used for developing master plots for the different kinetic models describing solid state reactions. These plots can be indistinctly used for analysing isothermal or non-isothermal experimental data. It is demonstrated that it is not possible to discriminate the kinetic model from a single non-isothermal curve without a previous knowledge of the activation energy. However, it has been shown that the ln [(da/dt)/f(a)] data taken from a set of DTG curves obtained at different heating rates lie on a single straight line when represented as a function of 1/T only if the kinetic model really obeyed by the reaction is considered. Moreover, the true values of E and A are obtained from the slope and the intercept of this straight line. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

钯纳米颗粒负载在聚苯胺材料上制得催化Suzuki-Miyaura偶联反应的高效催化剂

在最近的几十年里,金属钯催化的Suzuki-Miyaura偶联反应已经得到了越来越多的关注,被广泛应用于药物、天然产物以及新材料的合成.与此同时均相催化剂发展迅速,高效的配体和大量的设计被用于Suzuki-Miyaura偶联反应中,但是钯催化剂的配体通常很昂贵和难以合成,因此钯催化剂系统的回收是非常有价值的,不仅是经济上的原因,同时也避免了产品的污染,所以发展非均相催化剂是必要的.近年来,研究学者们致力于设计非均相的钯催化剂,如将钯纳米颗粒负载到金属有机骨架、介孔分子筛以及活性炭等多种材料上得到的非均相钯催化剂并应用于Suzuki-Miyaura偶联反应中.我们主要介绍了钯纳米颗粒被负载在含磷配体的交联的聚苯胺材料上制得负载的钯催化剂,首先通过钯催化的三(4-碘苯基)胺与金刚烷基膦的C–P偶联,再由钯催化三(4-碘苯基)胺与对苯二胺的C–N偶联,进而得到钯纳米颗粒负载在含金刚烷基膦的聚苯胺材料上的催化剂Pd@PAN-Ad-0.5(钯含量为0.58 wt%),同时我们对催化剂进行了一些表征,如TEM,SEM,XRD,EDX,XPS,FT-IR,ICP等.通过TEM分析,我们发现钯纳米颗粒在聚合物表面分布均匀,并且金属钯的平均粒径为2–3 nm;EDX检测显示催化剂含有C,N,P,Pd,I元素,说明钯负载到含金刚烷基膦的聚苯胺材料上的催化剂Pd@PAN-Ad-0.5已经形成,并被用于Suzuki-Miyaura偶联反应.我们对反应体系中的各种影响因素进行了优化,包括溶剂、碱、反应时间、催化剂加入量以及不同的催化剂的优化,最终确定了最佳反应条件;对于带有不同取代基(如腈基、甲氧基、醛基、酮基以及硝基)的氯代芳烃和溴代芳烃与苯硼酸的Suzuki-Miyaura反应,以较少的催化剂使用量(0.075 mol%Pd)就能获得较高的相应的联苯产物收率.此外,催化剂Pd@PAN-Ad-0.5在偶联反应中具有较高的反应活性的同时,还具有较好的回收使用能力(至少能够回收使用5次),循环使用4次以后还具有较高的催化活性.为了探索催化剂Pd@PAN-Ad-0.5在工业上的应用,由于4'-氯-2-硝基-1,1'-联苯是合成啶酰菌胺药物的重要中间体,因此我们使用催化剂Pd@PAN-Ad-0.5催化2-硝基氯苯与4-氯苯硼酸的偶联反应,目标产物4'-氯-2-硝基-1,1'-联苯的收率高达96%.我们相信这类催化剂应用于实验室或工业上合成联苯化学品具有较大的潜力.     

Fractal analysis of polyethylene catalysts surface morphologies based on wavelet transform modulus maxima method

Surface morphologies of supported polyethylene (PE) catalysts are investigated by an approach combining fractal with wavelet. The multiscale edge (detail) pictures of catalyst surface are extracted by wavelet transform modulus maxima (WTMM) method. And, the distribution of edge points on the edge image at every scale is studied with fractal and multifractal method. Furthermore, the singularity intensity distribution of edge points in the PE catalyst is analyzed by multifractal spectrum based on WTMM. The results reveal that the fractal dimension values and multifractal spectrums of edge images at small scales have a good relation with the activity and surface morphology of PE catalyst. Meanwhile the catalyst exhibiting the higher activity shows the wider singular strength span of multifractal spectrum based on WTMM, as well as the more edge points with the higher singular intensity. The research on catalyst surface morphology with hybrid fractal and wavelet method exerts the superiorities of wavelet and fractal theories and offers a thought for studying solid surfaces morphologies. Supported by the Chinese Petroleum & Chemical Corporation Development Department (Grant No. x504024)     

Applications of thermal analysis in some solid-state reactions

TG-DTG-DTA has been used to characterize various isomers of CoCl₂·2(CH₃C₆H₄NH₂). Thermal analysis is further used to analyse the binary mixtures of these isomers. DTA recorded after different elapsed times follows the progress of reaction between cobalt chloride and benzocaine where progressively small endotherms are associated with starting materials. The application of thermal analysis to following the solid-solid reactions between metal acetates and 8-hydroxyquinoline was highlighted. The stoichiometry of such reactions was confirmed from the decrease in intensity of an endotherm as one increases the stoichiometry.Thanks are due to Drs. Keshav Chander, K. Kaur, Rajinder Singh and G. S. Chopra for helpful discussions and experimental work.     

Kinetic determinations of reactants utilizing uncatalyzed reactions

Kinetic-based determinations of reactants utilizing uncatalyzed chemical reactions do not match the polularity of catalytic methods for the determination of catalysts (particularly transition metal ions) or reactants (e.g., in enzymatic reactions) and this reflects on the scarcity of reviews on the topic. In some cases, however, advances in instrumentation and data manipulation provide competitive alternatives to nonkinetic-based methods for single as well as multispecies determinations. Such advances are reviewed here and applications illustrated.     

连串反应速差动力学分析中的数据处理方法的研究

连串反应速差动力学分析中的数据处理方法的研究吴新国，蔡汝秀，林智信，程介克（武汉大学化学系，武汉，４３００７２）关键词连串反应，速差动力学分析，比例方程法，肾上腺素，去甲肾上腺素动力学分析在分析化学中的作用和重要性已广为人知［１］，速差动力学分析是其...     

Kinetic analysis of complex decomposition reactions using evolved gas analysis

For complex decomposition reactions, traditional methods, such as TG and DSC cannot fully resolve all of the steps in the reaction. Evolved gas analysis (EGA) offers another tool to provide more information about the decomposition mechanism. The decomposition of sodium bicarbonate was studied by TG, DSC and EGA using a simultaneous thermal analysis unit coupled to a FTIR. The decomposition of sodium bicarbonate involves two reaction products H₂O and CO₂, which are not evident from either TG or DSC measurements alone. A comparison of the reaction kinetics from TG, DTG and EGA data were compared.     

Kinetic equation for reversible heterogeneous catalytic reactions

It is demonstrated that when operating far from equilibrium, despite the non-linearity of a complex reaction system, the overall rate of a heterogeneous catalytic reaction is expressed by a classical equation, where the equilibrium constant is determined by the ratio of constants of the forward and reverse reaction, which do not include the lateral interactions in the adsorbed layer.     

Dynamic thermal analysis of solid-state reactions

There are many reactions of interest in which one or more of the reactants belong to some solid phases. Modern thermoanalytical instruments can conveniently provide reaction kinetic data of high precision and accuracy, from which the underlying activation energyE may be derived in principle. Unfortunately, no best method yet exists for the derivation when the data have been collected with a programmed linear increase in sample temperature, unlike the case of isothermal measurements, which however suffer from experimental limitations [1]. Here we propose a method for extractingE from non-isothermal data, that promises general validity.     

Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis of components of pyridine temperature-programmed desorption spectra from surface of copper-supported catalysts

The method of pyridine temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) was applied for the measurement of acid properties of in situ reduced copper catalysts on silicate support. A thermal-conductivity detector (TCD) was used for the detection of TPD spectra of pyridine. The combination of flame-ionization detector and thermal conductivity detector shows that the region of TPD spectrum with the peak maxima T_MAX1 = 350 °C is a superposition of the TCD response on spectra of desorbed pyridine, water and carbon dioxide, desorbing simultaneously from the catalyst surface. The method for the elimination of H₂O and CO₂ on the layer of NaOH was tested and the pure TPD spectrum of pyridine was obtained. The exact determination of pyridine concentration allows to estimate the amount of weak and medium acid centers of the catalyst. The gas chromatography with the mass spectroscopy (GC–MS) analyses was used for the interpretation of high temperature region of the pyridine TPD spectra (T_MAX2 = 620 °C). It was found that pyridine bonded on the strong acid centers is decomposed to N₂ and CO under very high temperature. The available chromatographic method for the separation of components present in pyridine TPD spectrum in the high-temperature region was suggested. The method for the quantification of strong acidity of copper-supported catalyst was found.     

Study of the temperature-programmed oxidative degradation of hydrocarbons over Ce-based catalysts by evolved gas analysis

The catalytic behaviour of ceria, zirconia and ceria–zirconia mixed oxides in the temperature-programmed degradation of toluene and n-hexane was analysed by means of evolved gas analysis (mass spectrometry). Pure cerium oxide resulted the most active catalyst in the oxidation of both compounds. This fact revealed the crucial role of the surface oxygen species in the decomposition of this type of hydrocarbons. The low affinity of CeO₂ for H₂O and CO₂, the major oxidation products, may be also responsible for the observed highly active catalytic behaviour.     

Analysis of thermal decomposition behaviors with consecutive reactions by TG

Thermal decomposition behaviors of a fluororubber are observed with linear heating mode at constant rate, controlled rate mode and isothermal mode of TG/DTA, and, with isothermal mode of TG/mass-spectrometer. The results suggest that this material decomposes with, at least, three consecutive reactions. From the results of TG/DTA and TGMS in isothermal mode, it is considered that the first reaction is the first-order reaction, the second reaction is chain reaction and the last reaction is vaporization of residue. Supposing these three consecutive reactions, the decomposition behaviors of the rubber is simulated. The observed curves of fraction of mass loss, , against time, t, are well reproduced by the simulation. The relationship between d/dt and is reproduced also, though the differences between observed and the calculated values of d/dt are slightly larger than noise level of d/dt.     

Palladium-imidazole derivatives as highly active catalysts for Heck reactions

N-Substituted 2-(2-bromophenyl)benzimidazole derivatives have been synthesized and used in palladium catalyzed Heck reactions to give coupled products in good yields.     

Enantioselective carbon–carbon bond forming reactions using fluorous chiral catalysts

Fluorous chiral BINOLs and BINAP were prepared and used as the ligands for an asymmetric addition of Et₂Zn to aromatic aldehydes and an asymmetric Heck reaction, respectively. The enantioselectivities were similar in homogeneous system to those of the original non-fluorous reactions. Consecutive reactions were examined by utilizing fluorous–organic biphase and fluorous solid phase extraction techniques. Enantioselectivities in consecutive reactions were close to that attained in the non-fluorous system. The solid phase extraction method also enabled us to perform a simultaneous screening procedure.