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Jones PM, May JA, Reitz JB, et al. Photoelectron spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of CH(2)O bonding and reactivity on ZnO surfaces: steps in the methanol synthesis reaction. Inorg Chem. 2004;43(11):3349-70doi: 10.1021/ic035252q.
Jones, P. M., May, J. A., Reitz, J. B., & Solomon, E. I. (2004). Photoelectron spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of CH(2)O bonding and reactivity on ZnO surfaces: steps in the methanol synthesis reaction. Inorganic chemistry, 43(11), 3349-70. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic035252q
Jones, P M, et al. "Photoelectron spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of CH(2)O bonding and reactivity on ZnO surfaces: steps in the methanol synthesis reaction." Inorganic chemistry vol. 43,11 (2004): 3349-70. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/ic035252q
Jones PM, May JA, Reitz JB, Solomon EI. Photoelectron spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of CH(2)O bonding and reactivity on ZnO surfaces: steps in the methanol synthesis reaction. Inorg Chem. 2004 May 31;43(11):3349-70. doi: 10.1021/ic035252q. PMID: 15154797.
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Inorg Chem. 2004 May 31;43(11):3349-70. doi: 10.1021/ic035252q.

Photoelectron spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of CH(2)O bonding and reactivity on ZnO surfaces: steps in the methanol synthesis reaction.

Inorganic chemistry

P M Jones, J A May, J B Reitz, Edward I Solomon

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

PMID: 15154797 DOI: 10.1021/ic035252q

Abstract

Adsorption of CH(2)O on ZnO(0001) has been investigated using XPS, NEXAFS, variable-energy photoelectron spectroscopy (PES), and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. CH(2)O is chemisorbed on the (0001) surface at 130 K. Its C1s XPS peak position at 292.7 eV and NEXAFS sigma shape resonance at 302.6 eV are consistent with an eta(1) bound surface geometry. Geometry optimized DFT calculations also indicate that CH(2)O is bound to the Zn(II) site in an eta(1) configuration through its oxygen atom. The variable-energy PES of the eta(1) bound CH(2)O/ZnO(0001) complex exhibits four valence band features at 21.2, 16.4, 13.8, and 10.7 eV below the vacuum level providing an experimental and theoretical description of this surface interaction. Annealing the ZnO(0001)/CH(2)O surface complex to 220 K decomposes the chemisorbed CH(2)O, producing formyl (291.5 eV), methoxide (290.2 eV), and formate (293.6 eV) intermediates. Thus this reaction coordinate involves the conversion of an oxygen bound formaldehyde to a carbon bound formyl species on ZnO(0001). Only formate is formed on the ZnO(100) surface. DFT is used to explore surface intermediates and the transition state in the methanol synthesis reaction (MSR). The bonding interactions of H(2), CO, CH(3)O(-), HCO(-), and trans-HCOH to the ZnO(0001) surface are elucidated using geometry optimization. H(2) was found to be heterolytically cleaved on the ZnO(0001) surface, and carbon monoxide, formyl, and methoxide are calculated to be eta(1) bound. These results are consistent with observed metal oxide surface reactivity where heterolytic bond cleavage is dominant. The oxygen atom in the bound formyl was found to be activated for attack by a proton. This results in the planar eta(1) bound trans-HCOH surface species. The transition state in the gas phase rearrangement of trans-HCOH to formaldehyde was calculated to have a barrier of 31 kcal/mol. The correlation diagram for this rearrangement in the gas phase indicates that configuration interaction at the crossing of two levels helps to lower the barrier. A transition state calculation was also performed for this rearrangement on the ZnO(0001) surface. The surface transition state geometry is significantly different than the gas phase. The surface geometry is no longer planar (23 degrees dihedral angle) and is displaced parallel to the surface. Interaction with the Zn(II) site at the crossing of surface bound CH(2)O and trans-HCOH levels further lowers the barrier to rearrangement relative to gas phase by 9 kcal/mol. The rearrangement of trans-HCOH (carbon bound) to CH(2)O (oxygen bound) on ZnO(0001) was calculated to be the overall barrier of the MSR reaction.

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