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Characterizing Lewis Pairs Using Titration Coupled with In Situ Infrared Spectroscopy
Published on: February 20, 2020
Solvent effect on CO oxidation as a novel diagnosing tool to pin down low-coverage CO at the liquid-solid interface:
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. zhen.ma@email.ucr.edu
Abstract:
In situ probing of liquid-solid interfaces is important for understanding heterogeneous liquid-phase catalysis and other interfacial phenomena, but the spectroscopic interference from the bulk is often a problem. Some organics may have infrared features overlapping the adsorbed CO peaks, making the determination of adsorbed CO difficult. In this study, CCl4-flushing was used as a novel diagnosing tool to pin down the low-coverage CO derived from decarbonylation of organics. This diagnosing tool was designed based on our in situ reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy results reported here that there is a marked solvent effect (water > ethanol > methanol > cyclohexane > benzene approximately carbon tetrachloride) on CO oxidation at the liquid-solid interface. Possible reasons for that solvent effect were discussed.
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