The adsorption of triethylenediamine on Al(2)O(3)-II: hydrogen bonding to Al-OH groups
Sunhee Kim1, Oleg Byl, John T Yates
1Department of Chemistry, Surface Science Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260.
Abstract:
The hydrogen bonding of the triethylenediamine (TEDA) molecule to isolated Al-OH groups on partially dehydroxylated high area gamma-Al(2)O(3) powder has been studied using transmission IR spectroscopy. It has been found that TEDA adsorbs both singly and as multiple species to single Al-OH groups in clearly separable equilibrium stages of adsorption at 300 K. The reversible adsorption of a single TEDA molecule to Al-OH fits the Langmuir adsorption isotherm well, and the enthalpy of adsorption is found to be -15.6 +/- 0.5 kJ mol(-1) in the range of fractional coverage of 0.5-0.6. Red shifts of the Al-OH frequency from approximately -200 cm(-1) to approximately -1000 cm(-1) are observed as a result of -OH bonding to the N lone pair in the TEDA molecule.
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