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Temperature-programmedreaction spectroscopy

A variety of TD spectroscopyrelated to concepts about surface reactions

R. Schlögl, FHI, Berlin

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Overview

• Prologue: Model concepts• The research target of TPRS

– Method– Answers– Challenges and limitations

• The proptotype application: Ni (110)– Reactant modification, formic acid decomposition,

pre-treatment• A more challenging application Ag (110)

– A complex adsorbate– The role of adsorbed and sub-surface oxygen– Methanol oxidation

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Prologue

Properties and status of models in catalysis

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Qualitative models “concepts”

• In complex processes reaction mechanisms from chemical rules and predictions of “intermediates”:

• Synthesis or calculations of structural and thermodynamic properties of such intermediates:

• Problem of kinetic spectators or side reactions as no on-line verification possible

• Approximation of reaction experiments by TPRS and often with reactive models (alkyl-iodide instead of alkane)

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The molecular phenomenology

Enantioselective hydrogenation

Ligand design to finetune electronic and geometric

structure by distorting metal d-states and by

shielding access to them

Reaction mechanism from structure-analysis

of molecular intermediates: No TPRS

required

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The heterogeneous analogy

Crystallography produced a structure susceptible to selected theoretical treatment

Microstructural analysis shows that this surface is almost non-existent yet can be found:Essential or curisosity?

Grasselli et al

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Models: Necessity

• Most catalytic reaction are too complex to be understood on “real systems”

• Multi-scale issues, structural dynamics and transport dynamics inhibit disentangling of reaction network

• In-situ analysis of real systems should define models; no a priori guess for demanding systems

• Models are required to verify qualitative conceptual suggestions; they must be functional

• Models for adsorption are usually not functional enough (except for CO oxidation)

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Model properties

• Models are structurally and chemically well-defined

• Models allow in-situ analytics (including TPRS)• Models are slow in their function allowing to

isolate individual reaction steps• Models should not need structure-distorting

activation steps (sputtering) such that their definition is lost

• Models perform the desired reaction, no proxys

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Models of catalyst surfaces

Somorjai 1994

Somorjai 1981

Trypsin, an enzyme

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Model types• No model for any complete catalyst function (muti scale)• Models on atomic scale; single crystal approach and multi-

scale theory• Only limited function as mesoscopic effects “surrounding”,

molecular-molecular interaction are missing• For these dimensions no models so far (beginning in

enzymes and their genetic design)• Nanostructured model approaches in heterogeneous

catalysis under development• In homogeneous catalysis models for (bio) reactions are

available; no clear understanding of their function due to process complexity

• For macrokinetic domain textural models and computational models exist

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Research status

• The single crystal model approach is conceptually correct and indispensable for quantitative kinetic understanding

• Its functionality is too low as no mesoscopic variability (steps); no generic approach

• Clusters on well-ordered oxides and oxide films offer potential; challenge of structural definition under operation

• So far not sufficient control over structure for non-metallic systems

• Bulk-surface interaction (sub-surface) and defect structuring (nano-engineering) still not under control and only poorly understood

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Research concept of TPRS

What are the issues adressed?What are the conditions and

limitations?

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The dynamic catalyst

• dynamical behavior arises from coupling of the catalyst material properties with those of the reaction environment

• the working catalyst is a unity between the material and its reaction environment; isolation of any part inhibits the correct function

• a catalyst takes part in its reaction but is regenerated in cyclic operation: no net change of the metastable catalytic material: in-situ observation mandatory

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The Concept of TPRS

• Material science of cataylsts contributes little to the identification of the mode of operation (mechanism) and thus to structure-function correlation

• Transient kinetic experiments are used to gain insight into the reaction processes

• High pressure experiments (flow experiments) although also counted to TPRS are fundamentally different from low-pressure experiments due to the re-adsorption issue and thus very hard to anaylse quantitatively

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The Concept of TPRS

• TPRS is the analogue to structural in-situ methods to gain insight into the function of a catalyst system

• Two main conditions must be provided:– The catalyst must be in its right material form despite very low

conversion in the TPRS experiments (relevance of a pristine surface)

– The process must be reversible or at least temperature-insensitive to the ramp employed for observation (never fully correct but sometimes a valid approximation)

• The reaction of study must be pressure-insensitive (very rarely the case!) if a prediction to real world is attempted (often not done in original literature)

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complexity

system descriptor (p,T,[])

„practical“ catalyst

-reactive-

single crystal

well-defined (static)

complex modelsystems (dynamical)

choice? pragmatic

In-situ analysis

Functional definition

Structural definition

Model strategy: TPRS is the bridgeing method

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TPRS: an invasive method

MeOH oxidation over 1 ML VxOy on TiO2 (110)

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Isotopic exchange: additonal infoMeOH oxidation over VxOy TiO2 (110)

Acid-base active OD groups formed from abstraction of methyl deuterium:easy exchange with the acidic OH group of MeOHbut the inverse reaction does not occur with the methyl hydrogens (much less reactive, not acid-base active)Note the possible dependence on reaction conditions

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The Concept of TPRS

• Low-pressure TPRS with reactive molecules• Two modes:

– multiple pulses: TAP– Co-adsorption and flash TDS: TPRS– Sub-mode: high-pressure reaction and TPRS with the educts

(products) remaining at the surface after quench• TPRS: observation of products and fragments of a

surface reaction as function of temperature: main information: co-incidence of products

• Each peak in TPRS can be analyzed with all techniques known in TDS (many dimensions of quantitative information in principle accessible but rarely ever done).

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Instrumentation and methodical limitscontinuous flow TPD reactor, operating underatmospheric pressure Kanervo et al

Typical TPD setup for single crystals or foils W. Ranke

Typical TPD setup for powders W. Ranke

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Useful conditions for TPRS

• Model systems are required to exclude problems of surface heterogeneitey with respect to– Energetics (site types and distributions)– Transport (pores, diffusion)

• Real samples require careful parameter choice (thermal resistance, film diffusion) and transport modelling: maybe impossible with demanding reactions

• They cannot be used without concomittant model systems (at the appropriate pressures for material dynamics)

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Useful conditions for TPRS

• The all-overriding issue is to avoid consecutive reactions by re-adsorption and thermal cracking: optimization of conditions is essential!!

• Use simple systems first and increase gradually the complexity of both reactant and surface

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Answers from TPRS

• Possible reaction channels• Kinetic parameters of all products (only for

reversible processes)• Structure-sensitivity• Influence of pre-treatments (sub-surface

species, compound formation) on reaction channels

• Mode of operation for consecutive processes

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Instrumentation and methodical limitsTypical TPD setup for single crystals or foils W. Ranke

TPD in catalysis J. Hagen

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Main challenges

• The method is very sensitive to the phenomenon of “kinetic gap”– Heating rate dependence of “desorption energy” (as in

TDS)– Different surface diffusion processes for different products– Different strength of interaction of products from the same

reaction with the surface • The co-incidence is lost • If this is folded with distribution of site properties

(inhomogeneous surfaces) and superposition with transport: no more useful info

• Surface remanents! (TPRS with oxygen “TPO”)

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Main challenges

• Key problem: The temperature is varied during the observation and exceeds the reaction temperature for complete observation (desorption): irreversible modifications.– Cracking of products– Sub-surface compound formation– Opening of alternative reaction channels due to progressive

desorption and change of spatial arrangements of adsorbates(example of acrolein on silver)

• Fast heating rates employed to be sensitive:– increase for complex molecules the kinetic gap – increase thermal burden on sensitive molecules (no real product

as consequence of unintended post synthetic analytical follow-up reaction): no problem in CO oxidation and decomposition reactions

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A real-world problem (B. Steinhauer)

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Pellets

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0 0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1pressure quotient p/p0

Volu

me

[cm

³/g]

Bi-modal pore size distribution:Micropores as effective diffusion limiters

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0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200t [min]

T [°

C]

TDS

neueProbeReaktion

TDSReduktion

TDS Reduction Reaction TDS

TDS

newsample

Reduction TDS

Reaction

β = 1K/s

cooling down

Temperature profile of a total experiment

cooling down

The real world adsorption cycle

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0,0E+00

1,6E-09

3,2E-09

4,8E-09

6,4E-09

8,0E-09

50 100 150 200 250T [°C]

MS

Sign

al [A

]

218284456

pR: 266mbar700mbar

0.0E+00

2.0E-09

4.0E-09

6.0E-09

8.0E-09

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MS

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%]

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800mbar

Is selectivity only a quantitative (kinetic) effect or are there differences in the reactivity of active sites? (site blocking by polymer products)

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The classic example:Ni (110) in formic acid decomposition

A consistent piece of surface science elucidating principles of

heterogeneous reactions

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Ni (110) a model case (Madix 1979, Acc Chem. Res.)

Structures of clean (a, e) and carbide (b-d) or graphite (f-h) precovered surfaces

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CO TDS with varying heating rates:

First order reaction, high Ea (37kcal/mol)

High peexp. factor of 1015 said to be due to high mobility of the desorbing transition state

How well compareabsolute T and heating rates?Think about heat transfer!

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Formic acid decomposition over clean Ni: the desorption of CO is controlled by its adsorbate bonding and not by ist appearance energy

CO TDS

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Formic acid decomposition over carbided Ni: the desorption of CO is controlled by its appearance energy: note the change of position of the hydrogen-deuterium peaks

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Anhydride Formate

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• TPRS has shown the structure-sensitivity of the formic acid decomposition in probing the surface state of Ni: structural dynamics found already in 1979

• An acid anhydride as complex surface species was postulated and identified by its decomposition products

• Perfect use of isotope labelling for mechanism discrimination

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Oxygen pre-coverage creates adsorbates and oxide phases

need for additional characterizations; sub-surface identification problem

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• The co-adsorption of oxygen causes two effects:– Change of energetics of the process of clean

metal (modification of the Ni surface)– Opening of a novel reaction channel

(combustion without cleavage of C-H, low energy, oxygen diffusion-controlled)

• TPRS as a very sensitive yet indirect tool probing surface states (oxidation state)

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Ag (110) in oxidative dehydrogenation of cycloalkenes

A case with a complex substrate

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Ag (110) and cyclo-octenes (R.J. Madix et al Surf. Sci., 1996)

Clean unimolecularsubstrate interaction, no intermolecuarinteraction, no residues

Ea ca. 17 kcal/mole (method dependent), formal raction order about 1.2 from leading edge analysis

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No differeneces for the mono-and di-olefin

A major difference for the tetra-olefin:Reaction order 1.6, Ea 23 kcal/mol, strongly coverage dependent, residues (TPO), multiple interactions with substrate (mono-and di-bridged)

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Strong modification of desorption and reaction due to oxygen pre-coverage

Oxidative dehydrogenation (water as by-product) and total combustion occur.

From integration it becomes clear that strong polymerisation with carbon residues is also occuring (not visible in data, would become evident when TPO were performed)

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Ag and “pre-adsorbed” oxygen:a complex ongoing story

Methanol oxidation as pertinent test reaction (runs almost to completion) with technical

relevance (BASF process for formaldehyde):Ethylene oxidation (also technical) as

reaction complement

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Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Methanol over Ag

R.J. Madix , J.T. Roberts, Springer Series in Surface Reactions, Vol. 34, 1994, p.9

Assigning , howeverseveral chemicalfunctions to the

same specis (acid-base vs. oxidative)

Surface sciencemodel experiments

identify onechemically active

atomic oxygenspecies

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Dynamics: AgO (gaps)

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Ag-O: mode of action: MeOH

Surface abundance of alpha oxygen (green) is detrimental forselectivity

Alpha oxygen isrequired to form other atomicoxygen species:

Site separation?

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TPRS of methanol oxidation Tegtmeier et al., Catal Lett., 1991

There are clearly two reaction pathways for MeOH oxidation with differing selectivities

Elelctrolytic silver pre-dosing with 100 mbar oxygen at 873 K for 5 minin MeOH at 10-5 mbar

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Ag-O: speciation for methanol oxidation by TDS

300 400 500 600 700 800 900Desorption Temperature (K)

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alphabetagammaconversion

TDS allowsisolating 3 different atomicoxygen species

Catalystconversion co-incides not withthe „surfaceatomic“ oxygenspecies

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Ag-O: solid state transformation in TDS

multiple experimental series are requiredto obtaincharacteristicdesorption traces

high-pressuredosing and cyclisationessential,

little effect in static experimentsNote the changes in ordinate scale!

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The non-equilibrium nature Nagy et al 1996

The identification of bulk dissolved and surface-embedded oxygen dependscritically on the conditions of TDS (2.5 K/s)

Electrolytic silver

pre-dosing with 100 mbar oxygen at 873 K for 5 min

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The non-equilibrium nature

Facetting

in oxygen

under reactionconditions

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Ag-O: a dynamic system

situation at above573 K and 1 mbaroxygen pressure

steady statedependscritically on defect density

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C2H4O

C2H4

PTR

MS

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. un.

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470 no O2420370

b

no O2500 520470420370

C2H4O

C2H4

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1

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a) p

(C2H

4)=

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r, p

(O2)

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25 m

bar

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p((

C2H

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(O2)

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25 m

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Ethylene Epoxidation over Ag

1

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CO3

On

Oe

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, P(O

2)= 0

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mba

r

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O1s

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, arb

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Binding Energy, eV282 284 286 288 290 292

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P(C2H4)

O mbar

O.03 mbar

O.1 mbar

O.24 mbar

Vacuum

On

OeC residues

C2H4

C2H4O

Formation of Active Species

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The heterogeneous analogy

Some critical intermediates and the

configuration of the active sites were found to be not impossible from isolated but high level quantum chemical calculation:By far too complex for

any rigorous treatment, active sites not identified

Grasselli, Goddard et al

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Surface science and ammonia synthesis

Low pressure static data

Fe-H

Fe-N

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Electrophilic Oxygen is no peroxide

In-situ NEXAFS at 0.2 mbar ethylene/oxygenmixture

Comparison to low-Tadsorbed molecular oxygenon Ag (111)

Electrophilic oxygenis atomic in nature as

no O-O sigma* resonance

Reference: J. Pawela-Crew, R.J. Madix, J. Stöhr, Surf. Sci., 339, (1995), 23

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Speciation of weakly bound oxygen

Only in the presence of a gas phase of ethylene and oxygen an additional atomic species without any Ag -d band interaction is found.

Pumping off to 10-1 mbar removes this species which produces ethylene oxide

Temperature-programmed�reaction spectroscopyOverviewPrologueQualitative models “concepts”The molecular phenomenologyThe heterogeneous analogyModels: NecessityModel propertiesModels of catalyst surfacesModel typesResearch statusResearch concept of TPRS�The dynamic catalystThe Concept of TPRSThe Concept of TPRSModel strategy: TPRS is the bridgeing methodTPRS: an invasive methodIsotopic exchange: additonal info�MeOH oxidation over VxOy TiO2 (110)The Concept of TPRSInstrumentation and methodical limitsUseful conditions for TPRSUseful conditions for TPRSAnswers from TPRSInstrumentation and methodical limitsMain challengesMain challengesA real-world problem (B. Steinhauer)A real-world problem (B. Steinhauer)A real-world problem (B. Steinhauer)A real-world problem (B. Steinhauer)The classic example:�Ni (110) in formic acid decomposition�Ni (110) a model case (Madix 1979, Acc Chem. Res.)Ni (110) a model case (Madix 1979, Acc Chem. Res.)Ni (110) a model case (Madix 1979, Acc Chem. Res.)Ni (110) a model case (Madix 1979, Acc Chem. Res.)Ni (110) a model case (Madix 1979, Acc Chem. Res.)Ni (110) a model case (Madix 1979, Acc Chem. Res.)Ni (110) a model case (Madix 1979, Acc Chem. Res.)Ni (110) a model case (Madix 1979, Acc Chem. Res.)Ni (110) a model case (Madix 1979, Acc Chem. Res.)Ag (110) in oxidative dehydrogenation of cycloalkenes�Ag (110) and cyclo-octenes (R.J. Madix et al Surf. Sci., 1996)Ag (110) and cyclo-octenes (R.J. Madix et al Surf. Sci., 1996)Ag (110) and cyclo-octenes (R.J. Madix et al Surf. Sci., 1996)Ag and “pre-adsorbed” oxygen:�a complex ongoing story�Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Methanol over Ag Dynamics: AgO (gaps)Ag-O: mode of action: MeOHTPRS of methanol oxidation Tegtmeier et al., Catal Lett., 1991Ag-O: speciation for methanol oxidation by TDSAg-O: solid state transformation in TDSThe non-equilibrium nature Nagy et al 1996The non-equilibrium natureAg-O: a dynamic systemEthylene Epoxidation over AgFormation of Active SpeciesThe heterogeneous analogySurface science and ammonia synthesisElectrophilic Oxygen is no peroxideSpeciation of weakly bound oxygen

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