OC71 Identity and Kinetic Relevance of Elementary Steps in the Catalytic Reduction of NO with H2 on Pt Clusters

Friday, June 10, 2011: 9:00 AM
Cartier Ballroom (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Masayuki Yoshimura1, Romel M. Jimenez1, Xiaodong Wu2, Brian Weiss1 and Enrique Iglesia3, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (USA), Berkeley, CA, (2)Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (3)Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
The kinetically-relevant step for NO-H2 reactions on Pt/Al2O3 involves the addition of two H-atoms to adsorbed NO on surfaces covered by H* and NO* via H2 and NO adsorption equilibrium . The rate constants for NO reduction are insensitive to Pt cluster size (1.5-10 nm).

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