Published July 1987
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Summary Abstract: The hydrogenolysis of alkanes over single-crystalline surfaces of iridium: The influence of surface structure on the catalytic selectivity
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- Engstrom, J. R.
- Goodman, D. W.
- Weinberg, W. H.
Abstract
We have investigated the hydrogenolysis of various short-chain alkanes on the Ir(111) and Ir(110)-(1×2) surfaces. A striking correlation has been discovered between the selectivity for ethane production from the hydrogenolysis of n-butane over Ir catalysts and the concentration of low-coordination-number metal surface atoms. This result is best interpreted as a manifestation of the occurrence of a particular adsorbed reaction intermediate on the Ir(11O)-(1×2) surface, namely, a metallacyc1e pentane. The formation of this intermediate is sterically forbidden on the Ir(111) surface.
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© 1987 American Vacuum Society. Received 13 October 1986; accepted 28 January 1987. This work was performed at Sandia National Laboratories and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC04-76DP00789. We acknowledge the partial support of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Science.Attached Files
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