Strongly cluster size dependent reaction behavior of CO with O2 on free silver cluster anions |
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Authors: | Socaciu Liana D Hagen Jan Le Roux Jerome Popolan Denisia Bernhardt Thorsten M Woste Ludger Vajda Stefan |
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Affiliation: | Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Freie Universitat Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Reactions of free silver anions Agn- (n = 1 - 13) with O2, CO, and their mixtures are investigated in a temperature controlled radio frequency ion trap setup. Cluster anions Agn- (n = 1 - 11) readily react with molecular oxygen to yield AgnOm- (m = 2, 4, or 6) oxide products. In contrast, no reaction of the silver cluster anions with carbon monoxide is detected. However, if silver cluster anions are exposed to the mixture of O2 and CO, new reaction products and a pronounced, discontinuous size dependence in the reaction behavior is observed. In particular, coadsorption complexes Agn(CO)O2- are detected for cluster sizes with n = 4 and 6 and, the most striking observation, in the case of the larger odd atom number clusters Ag7-, Ag9-, and Ag11-, the oxide product concentration decreases while a reappearance of the bare metal cluster signal is observed. This leads to the conclusion that carbon monoxide reacts with the activated oxygen on these silver clusters and indicates the prevalence of a catalytic reaction cycle. |
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