Crystalline metal-organic framework cobalt (II) benzenetricarboxylate C%(BTC)2·12H2O (MOF-Co) has been prepared using solvothermal method. The reaction of cobalt (II) nitrate and 1,3,5-benzenetriearboxyl...Crystalline metal-organic framework cobalt (II) benzenetricarboxylate C%(BTC)2·12H2O (MOF-Co) has been prepared using solvothermal method. The reaction of cobalt (II) nitrate and 1,3,5-benzenetriearboxylic (BTC) acid in a mixed solution of N,N-dimethylformarnide (DMF)/C2H5OH/H2O (1:1:1, v/v) at low temperature for short reaction times produced this crystalline compound. Compared with traditional hydrothermal method, a mixed solution method for the synthesis of crystalline metal complex was found to be highly efficient. After water molecules were removed from this metal complex, its exposed nodes served as active sites. When this MOF-Co was employed in the oxidation of CO, it showed good catalytic properties causing 100% conversion of CO to CO2 at low temperature of 160 ℃.展开更多
Understanding the dynamic evolution of active sites of supported metal catalysts during catalysis is fundamentally important for improving its performance,which attracts tremendous research interests in the past decad...Understanding the dynamic evolution of active sites of supported metal catalysts during catalysis is fundamentally important for improving its performance,which attracts tremendous research interests in the past decades.There are two main surficial structures for metal catalysts:terrace sites and step sites,which exhibit catalytic activity discrepancy during catalysis.Herein,by using in situ transmission electron microscopy and in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR),the transformation between surface terrace and step sites of Pt-TiO_(2) catalysts was studied under CO and O_(2) environments.We found that the{111}step sites tend to form at{111}terrace under O_(2) environment,while these step sites prefer to transform into terrace under CO environment at elevated temperature.Meanwhile,quantitative ratios of terrace/step sites were obtained by in situ FTIR.It was found that this transformation between terrace sites and step sites was reversible during gas treatment cycling of CO and O_(2).The selective adsorption of O_(2) and CO species at different sites,which stabilized the step/terrace sites,was found to serve as the driving force for active sites transition by density functional theory calculations.Inspired by the in situ results,an enhanced catalytic activity of Pt-TiO_(2) catalysts was successfully achieved through tuning surface-active sites by gas treatments.展开更多
基金Funded by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province,China(No.2011CDA070)Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Hubei University for Nationalities(No.MY2014B013)
文摘Crystalline metal-organic framework cobalt (II) benzenetricarboxylate C%(BTC)2·12H2O (MOF-Co) has been prepared using solvothermal method. The reaction of cobalt (II) nitrate and 1,3,5-benzenetriearboxylic (BTC) acid in a mixed solution of N,N-dimethylformarnide (DMF)/C2H5OH/H2O (1:1:1, v/v) at low temperature for short reaction times produced this crystalline compound. Compared with traditional hydrothermal method, a mixed solution method for the synthesis of crystalline metal complex was found to be highly efficient. After water molecules were removed from this metal complex, its exposed nodes served as active sites. When this MOF-Co was employed in the oxidation of CO, it showed good catalytic properties causing 100% conversion of CO to CO2 at low temperature of 160 ℃.
文摘Understanding the dynamic evolution of active sites of supported metal catalysts during catalysis is fundamentally important for improving its performance,which attracts tremendous research interests in the past decades.There are two main surficial structures for metal catalysts:terrace sites and step sites,which exhibit catalytic activity discrepancy during catalysis.Herein,by using in situ transmission electron microscopy and in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR),the transformation between surface terrace and step sites of Pt-TiO_(2) catalysts was studied under CO and O_(2) environments.We found that the{111}step sites tend to form at{111}terrace under O_(2) environment,while these step sites prefer to transform into terrace under CO environment at elevated temperature.Meanwhile,quantitative ratios of terrace/step sites were obtained by in situ FTIR.It was found that this transformation between terrace sites and step sites was reversible during gas treatment cycling of CO and O_(2).The selective adsorption of O_(2) and CO species at different sites,which stabilized the step/terrace sites,was found to serve as the driving force for active sites transition by density functional theory calculations.Inspired by the in situ results,an enhanced catalytic activity of Pt-TiO_(2) catalysts was successfully achieved through tuning surface-active sites by gas treatments.