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THE FORMATIONOF WELL DEFINEDSURFACECARBONYLSOF Ru AND IR WITH HIGHLY DEALUMINATED ZEOLITEY AS MATRIX *
I.Burkhardt, D.Gutschick, HLandmesser and H-Miessner Zentralinstitut f u r Physikalische Chemie Rudower Chaussee 5, 0-1199 Berlin, Germany
ABSTRACT FT-IR spectroscopy has been used t o s t u d y t h e surface species formed during
the
interaction
of
dealuminated zeolite (US-Ex).
CO
with
Ru
and
Ir
supported
on highly
With both oxidized a n d reduced Ru/US-Ex a
well defined Ru tricarbonyl could be identified with bands at 2152, 2091 and 2086 cm-l indicating a slightly distorted C3v structure.
Evacuation at
473 K r e s u l t s i n t h e formation of a Ru dicarbonyl with bands at 2092 a n d 2031 cm-l.
Ir(CO)2/US-Ex with bands at 2108 and 2037 cm-’
a f t e r an interaction of CO with oxidized Ir/US-Ex.
was obtained
Different t o Rh and Ru,
reduced Ir did not form a well defined surface carbonyl on US-Ex.
TPR-TPO
w a s used to explain t h e s e differences a n d t h e increasing temperature (Rh
INTRODUCTION
It h a s been shown by FT-IR spectroscopy t h a t t h e interaction of CO with Rh introduced into highly dealuminated zeolite Y (US-Ex) results in t h e formation
of
(F.W.H.M. 5 5
a
ern-')
well
defined
Rh
dicarbonyl
with
unusually
sharp
carbonyl stretching bands at 2118 and 2053 cm-’[lI.
Sharpness and intensity of
t h e s e bands allowed t h e
detection of
satellite bands even with 1 3 C 0 in natural abundance (1.1%)[1,21.
I3C
Low
temperature adsorption experiments and t h e interaction of Rh/US-Ex with NO
or COtNO demonstrated t h e r a t h e r rich surface chemistry of Rh carbonyls a n d
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nitrosyls bonded t o t h e zeolite framework 13,41. These unique properties of US-Ex as a matrix for the formation of well defined surface carbonyls have been used to extend t h e study t o t h e surface carbonyl chemistry of Ru and Ir.
For supported Ru, t h e formation of
several different surface carbonyls has been proposed in t h e literature on the basis of carbonyl bands with wavenumbers from 2140 to 1950 cm-l. The assignment of these bands to definite surface complexes is far from being clear. Two high-frequency (HF) bands at ca. 2140 and 2080 cm-l has been assigned t o a Ru dicarbonyl [5-131 or, alternatively, t o a tricarbonyl L13-181 with Ru in a positive oxidation state (t1 - t3). The HF bands have been also assigned t o different monccarbonyls of positively charged Ru atoms in contact with oxygen. 119-211. A carbonyl band at ca. 2040 cm-l has been usually assigned to CO linearly adsorbed on Ru m e t a l particles. On the other hand, dicarbonyl species have been proposed on t h e basis of band dubletts with wavenumbers varying from 2100-2050 and 2040-1970 cm-l [7,9,13-15,21-241. The surface complexes of Ir are not as intensively studied as those of Rh o r Ru.
Besides t h e linearly and bridge bonded CO on Ir particles, t h e
existence of a n Ir dicarbonyl has been proposed on t h e basis of I R absorption bands a t 2110-2070 and 2040-1995 cm-l [25-281.
By using US-Ex as support w e hoped t o obtain more insight in t h e surface chemistry of well dispersed Ru and Ir.
It will be shown that it was
possible to identify Ru tri- and dicarbonyls as well as an Ir dicarbonyl on the surface of dealuminated Y zeolite US-Ex as support.
EXPERIMENTAL M/US-Ex (1 w t % M, M=Ir,Ru, Si:Al=95) was prepared as follows.
US-Ex
obtained by thermochemical treatment of NHIY and subsequent extraction of the non-framework aluminium species with dilute hydrochloric acid [291 w a s treated with aqueous solutions of [Ir(NH3)5C11(C1)2 and RuC13tNH4C1, respectively. The samples w e r e dried at 383 K f o r 3 h and calcined in air a t 533 K for 3 h. The structure of t h e zeolite, checked by I R spectroscopy using the KBr wafer technique, was not changed by t h e pretreatment and t h e adsorption experiments. Transmission I R studies were performed with a conventional cell made
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from glass with K B r windows, connected to a vacuum and a gas dosing line for in situ pretreatment. The samples were pressed into self-supporting wafers wi t h a "weight of ca.10 mg/cm'. The spectra were recorded usually at r o o m temperature (r.t., 300 K) after t h e interaction of t h e pretreated samples with 5-10 Torr CO as indicated in the text. The pretreatment consisted of an evacuation of t h e calcined sample Torr) at r.t. for at least 30 min o r in a reduction with hydrogen at 573 K and subsequent evacuation a t t h e same temperature. The spectra were recorded with an FT-IR spectrometer IRF-180 (ZWG) at a resolution of 2 To obtain a good signal t o noise ratio, 100 scans were accumulated. The spectra shown in this paper are corrected for t h e background and t h e contribution of t h e windows. The TPR experiments were carried out with a flow apparatus, using a 5% H2 in N2 mixture at a gas flow r a t e of ca. 20 ml/min and a catharometric detection. 200 m g of t h e calcined sample were cooled t o 195 K in a N2 flow. A t that temperature t h e gas stream w a s switched to t h e H2/N2 mixture and, after removing of t h e dry ice bath, t h e hydrogen consumption was recorded during t h e increase of t h e temperature up to r.t. The temperature w a s then ramped with a heating rate of 3.5 K/min. After reoxidation with
ern-'.
5% O2 in A r at t h e desired temperature a subsequent second TPR r u n w a s
performed. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Figure 1 shows t h e results of t h e interaction of CO w ith both oxidized (calcined) and reduced Ru/US-Ex. With both samples w e found well resolved s h a r p bands at 2152, 2091 and 2086 cm-' indicating that t h e band usually found a t 2 0 8 0 ~ 1 0cm-' is, at least in the case of US-Ex as support, a composite one and should be assigned together with t h e band at 2152 cm-' to a Ru tricarbonyl with slightly distorted C3v symmetry. The Ru tricarbonyl is assumed t o be localized in t h e vicinity of t h e remaining A1 atoms in t h e zeolite framework with Ru in a positive oxidation state. Besides t h e absorption bands due t o t h e tricarbonyl, a broader band is observed at 2020-2030 cm-', which can be assigned to CO linearly adsorbed on Ru m e t a l particles. A s shown in Figure l b t h e Ru tricarbonyl is also formed with reduced samples. This could be explained by a disruption of Ru-Ru bonds during t h e
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A
l
l
J"J L
0. O f 2200 2100 2000 1900 WAVENUMBERS cm-'
Figure 1. Infrared spectra in t h e carbonyl stretching region of Ru/ US-Ex, oxidized (a) and reduced (b), after interaction with 10 Torr CO at 473K and subsequent evacuation at 300 K.
2200
2100
.-
2000
a
1900
WAVENUMBERS crn-l
Figure 2. Infrared spectra in t h e carbonyl stretching region of Ru/ US-Ex as in Fig.lb (a), subsequent evacuation at 473 K for 10 min (b), for 20 min (c), and interaction with 10 T o r r at 423 K (d).
interaction with CO and a subsequent oxidation by t h e surrounding hydroxyl groups [111. Obviously, only a part of t h e reduced Ru may be transferred into a surface complex of Ru ts This behavior might be connected with the tendency of Ru to form bulk Ru oxid and m e t a l particles at the outer surface of t h e zeolite during subsequent oxidation-reduction treatments 1303. This is in agreement with our TPO-TPR results, that show the formation of bulk like Ru oxide. An additional argument f o r t h e assignment of the H F bands to a tricarbonyl is the behavior of the complex during t h e evacuation at higher temperatures (Figure 2). During desorption at 473 K t h e HF triplett transforms into a doublett with carbonyl stretching bands at 2092 and 2031 cm-l. This doublett is consequently assigned t o a dicarbonyl Ru(C012.
.
219 The
decarbonylation is
reversible
and t h e tricarbonyl can be obtained again by interaction of the dicarbonyl with CO at 423 K (Figure 2d). Figure 3 shows t h e results of t h e interaction of CO with oxidized and reduced Ir/US-Ex at 523 K. With t h e oxidized sample t h e formation of a well defined dicarbonyl of Ir is observed with carbonyl stretching
at 2108 and 2037 cm-' and weak satellites at 2091 and 2006 an-'. The assignment of these bands t o t h e dicarbonyl with t h e corresponding 1 3 C 0 satellites has been proven by a ligand exchange with isotopically labelled CO. The bands
b
0.0 2200
2100 ~
2000
1900
WAVENUMBERS c m - l
Figure 3. Infrared spectra in the carbonyl stretching region of Ir/ US-Ex, oxidized (a) and reduced (b), after interaction with CO at 523 K and subsequent evacuation a t 300 K.
results
of
a calculation in an force field [311 are
shown in Table 1. Thus, t h e interaction of Ir/US-Ex with CO results, similar to Rh/US-Ex, in the formation of a well defined dicarbonyl. There are, on
Table 1. Observed and calculated wavenumbers
13 Ir( C 0 l 2 kCO= 1734 Nm-',
c0-co.--
i
(ern-')
for I r ( C 0 I 2
2108
2037
2107
2036
2091
2006
2090
2006
2058
1990
2060
1991
59 Nm-'
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the other hand, some significant differences: At first, t h e wavenumbers and, consequently. t h e force mnstants ot the ( 3 0 stretching are at lower values indicating a higher extent of 11-back bonding as compared with t h e Rh
dicarbonyl (kCO= 1757 Nm-l)
[ll.
Secondly, t h e formation
dicarbonyl needs more severe conditions ( T
which is formed already a t r o o m temperature. able to obtain
an
Ir
dicarbonyl
of
the Ir
> 473 K) than for Rh dicarbonyl, And, finally, w e were not
starting from
the
reduced
sample.
The infrared spectrum (Figure 3b) shows only a broad absorption band at ca. 2020
ern-',
which could be assigned to CO Linearly adsorbed on t h e Ir
surface. To explain t h e different behavior of oxidized and reduced Rh, Ru and Ir on US-Ex during t h e interaction with CO, w e performed TPR-TPO experiments. Rh is
Figure 4. shows t h e reduction profiles for t h e calcined samples.
reduced a t temperatures much lower than those necessary to reduce Ru and Ir.
A s the formation of well defined surface carbonyls by interaction of
t h e oxidized samples with CO needs primarily a reduction of t h e m e t a l ions by CO itself, it s e e m s t o be logically to expect higher temperatures for t h e formation of t h e surface carbonyls in t h e order Rh
< Ru < Ir.
The
other point is t h e oxidative disruption in t h e case of Rh and Ru but not Ir to
form
well
defined
surface
carbonyls
with
the
reduced
samples.
Subsequent TPO-TPR experiments showed t h a t after a reoxidation to 473 K ca. 60% of Rh and 90% of Ru had been oxidized, whereas only 10% of reduced Ir/US-Ex
had been oxidized by TPO at 548 K.
These results indicate t h e
difficulty to oxidize Ir on US-Ex as support and may explain t h a t we could
TPR profiles Figure 4. of M/US-Ex (M=Rh,Ru,Ir). The first peak near 200 K is due t o the fast desorption of physically adsorbed N2 after removing of the d r y ice bath.
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I
not obtain any Ir ( C 0 l 2 on t h e reduced sample. It should be noted that Solymosi et al. [281 observed t h e formation of IrI( C 0 l 2 during t h e
interaction of CO with reduced Ir on A1203 as support.
This different
behavior might be due t o a different particle size dependend on t h e support (the oxidative disruption is only expected f o r highly dispersed metals) o r to a different character of t h e hydroxyl groups, which are involved in t h e oxidation. The results of t h e present study are summarized in Table 2. For comparison reasons, t h e well defined carbonyls and nitrosyls of Rh on US-Ex are also included. As in the case of Rh surface complexes 11-41 US-Ex act
as a kind of unique matrix for t h e formation of well defined surface carbonyls. The following properties of US-Ex might be responsible for these effects: the remaining amount of Al atoms as centres for the a SkAl ratio of lccalization of cationic carbonyl species is small (at ca.100 only about 2 per unit cell). At t h e same time, also t h e amount of other cations (as Na' in t h e case of NaX or Nay) and adsorbed molecular w a t e r is rather small in US-Ex. The carbonyls formed in US-Ex are, therefore, isolated from each other and free of interaction with other species in t h e supercages of the zeolite framework.
Table 2.
W e l l defined surface compounds on US-Ex
Ru(CO12,
Ir(co)2,
c2v c2v
Rh1(CO)2,
c2v
Rh1(C0I3, Rh'(CO)4,
c3" c2v
Rh1(NO)2, Rh'(CO)(NO)2 Rh(CO)2(NO)
c2v
I
I
2092
2031 2108 2037
this work this work
2118 2053
1
2119 2083 2151 2135 2124
3 3
2102
2160 2128
2111
1855 1780 1770 1707 1785
3 3 4
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