Sites for Catalytic Reactions

There is a second and alternative explanation. The pair sites needed for hydrogenation are heterogeneous, the more active pair sites are made at higher temperatures, and sites throughout the pore structure are effective for hydrogenation. Thus, chemisorption measures all sites whereas hydrogenation reflects mainly the more active sites. 

As judged by propane adsorption at —78°, almost all of the micropore structure is accessible to propane but, since equilibrium with 

Detailed consideration of sites used in these exchange reactions appears in Section X. 

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For example, it is believed that defects in the crystal structure produce highly energetic and active sites for catalytic reactions. This may be true but the more crystalline the catalytic site the lower is the number of surface atoms and the lower is its catalytic surface area. All this being said there are reactions that favor certain catalyst crystalline sizes and are said to be structure sensitive. The above discussion points to the mystery of catalysis. The goal of finding a universal model describing the nature of the active catalytic site still eludes us today and will undoubtedly be the subject of fundamental research for years to come. 

In this case, the pyridine end dissociates but does not leave the vicinity of the metal since it is tethered to the metal-coordinated carbene end. The metal complex can now use the free coordination site for (catalytic) reactions and subsequently, the pyridine end coordinates again to the metal stabilising the catalyst. The authors used this system in the... 

While we have been talking of the surface of a solid catalyst as the site of the catalytic reactions, it is by no means clear that such is always the case. Most crystalline solids are polycrystalline in structure, the interfaces between microcrystals providing many possible sites for catalytic reaction. Amorphous solids such as many metallic hydroxides and oxides may have pores, molecular voids, and irregular surfaces whose accessibility for chemical reaction will depend strongly on the nature of the reactants and the conditions of the experiment. ... 

Chemical Properties. Higher a-olefins are exceedingly reactive because their double bond provides the reactive site for catalytic activation as well as numerous radical and ionic reactions. These olefins also participate in additional reactions, such as oxidations, hydrogenation, double-bond isomerization, complex formation with transition-metal derivatives, polymerization, and copolymerization with other olefins in the presence of Ziegler-Natta, metallocene, and cationic catalysts. All olefins readily form peroxides by exposure to air. 

The location of boron or aluminum sites in zeolites is of utmost importance to an understanding of the catalytic properties. Due to the inherent long-range disorder of the distribution of these sites in most zeolites, it is difficult to locate them by diffraction methods. The aforementioned methods to measure heteronuclear dipolar interactions can be utilized to determine the orientation between the organic SDA and A1 or B in the framework. The SDA location may be obtained by structure refinement or computational modeling. For catalytic reactions, the SDA must be removed from the pores system by calcination. 

The particle surface may function as a catalytic site for heterogeneous reactions involving the generation or removal of gaseous pollutants (11, 15-17). 

This section is separated from the former one, even though mixed addenda POMs are mostly, if not exclusively, synthesized from the appropriate lacunary precursors and can be viewed normally as substituted POMs. At least two reasons can be invoked to justify such dichotomy first, a substitutionally labile position is available on the transition metal substituted into the POMs framework, which is not the case with mixed addenda compounds second, these transition metal centers are usually the active sites for catalytic and electrocatalytic reactions and might deserve special attention. 

The input parameters for the model are the thermodynamics of the gas phase, chemisorption energy and spectroscopic properties for the intermediates, the kinetic parameters for the rate limiting step and the number of active sites on the catalyst. No reference to experimental data for catalytic reaction rates are made in the determination of the input parameters. 

As mentioned in Chapter 2, a catalytic reaction is not catalyzed over the entire surface of the catalyst but only at certain active sites (Fogler, 1999). Then, the reaction rate of any reaction component i at a fundamental level for catalytic reactions can be defined with respect to active sites as follows ... 

The nature of the methanol-zeolite interaction has been shown to be sensitive to a number of parameters and as such has proved to be a good benchmark for judging the reliability of quantum chemical methods. Not only are there a number of possible modes whereby one and two molecules interact with an acidic site (245), the barrier to proton transfer is small and sensitive to calculation details. Recent first-principles simulations (236-238) suggest that the nature of adsorbed methanol may be sensitive to the topology of the zeolite pore. The activation and reaction of methane, ethane, and isobutane have been characterized by using reliable methods and models, and realistic activation energies for catalytic reactions have been obtained. 

The batch reactor is characterized by its volume, Fr, and the holding time, t, that the fluid has spent in the reactor. Flow reactors are usually characterized by reactor volume and space time, r, with the latter defined as the reactor volume divided by the volumetric flow rate of feed to the reactor. The physical significance of r is the time required to process a volume of fluid corresponding to Rr. For catalytic reactions, the space time may be replace by the site time, xp, defined as the number of catalytic sites in the reactor, Sr, divided by the molecular flow rate of feed to the reactor, F. The physical interpretation of rp is the time required to process many molecules equal to the number of active sites in the reactor. 

Langmuir-Hinshelwood rate expressions of all the reactions of the network were used in the kinetic modeling of the HDN of quinoline by Satterfield et al. (80, 81, 88). Their assumption that there is a single catalytic site for all reactions is too simple. Nevertheless, they collected an impressive body of kinetic data and pinpointed the reactions that were close to equilibrium and those which were kinetically significant. Gioia and Lee (100) extended these studies to higher pressures (up to 15 MPa H2). Only one model survived their regression analysis of the kinetic data. In this model, it was necessary to assume that 1,2,3,4-THQ reacted directly not only to o-propylaniline but also to propylbenzene (PB) and propylcyclohexene (PCHE). Their analysis does not appear to be very reliable, however. First,... 

The most common carrier is gamma alumina (y-Al203). It has an internal area of >200-300 m2/g. Its surface is highly hydrox-ylated (i.e., Al-O-2 H+). The H+ sites provide acidity required for many reactions and exchange sites for catalytic metal cations. 

Neutrality is satisfied by a cation (e.g., M+) which is usually Na+ derived from the salts used in the synthesis. When the cation is exchanged with a proton an acid site is created. This is the key active site for catalytic cracking reactions. The first exchange is with NH4+ which when heat-treated decomposes to NH3 and the H+ is retained on the zeolite. The acid zeolite is designated HZ... 

Scheme 12 Grafted chiral and nonchiral catalytic sites for alkylation reaction.

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