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Research Article

Size hierarchy of gold clusters in nanogold-catalyzed acetylene hydrochlorination

Yifei Zhang1,2,§Xinrui Gu2,§Fatimah Kehinde Busari2,5Sami Barkaoui2Zhong-Kang Han3( )Alfons Baiker4Zhen Zhao1( )Gao Li1,2,5( )
Institute of Catalysis for Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China
State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310000, China
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH, Hönggerberg, HCI, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

§ Yifei Zhang and Xinrui Gu contributed equally to this work.

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Thermal treatment of an Au144(PET)60 (PET: phenylethanethiol) parent cluster combined with in-situ ultraviolet laser dissociation high-resolution mass spectrometry revealed a remarkable cluster size-dependence of acetylene adsorption, which is a crucial step in acetylene hydrochlorination and density functional theory (DFT) studies of reaction energy profiles uncovered a scaling relationship, which facilitates prediction of the size-dependence of the adsorption behavior of acetylene on AunSm clusters.

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Size hierarchy is a distinct feature of nanogold-catalysts as it can strongly affect their performance in various reactions. We developed a simple method to generate AunSm nanoclusters of different sizes by thermal treatment of an Au144(PET)60 (PET: phenylethanethiol) parent cluster. These clusters, deposited on activated carbon, exhibit excellent catalytic performance in the hydrochlorination of acetylene. In-situ ultraviolet laser dissociation high-resolution mass spectrometry of the parent cluster in the presence of acetylene revealed a remarkable cluster size-dependence of acetylene adsorption, which is a crucial step in the hydrochlorination. Systematic density functional theory calculations of the reaction pathways on the differently-sized clusters provide deeper insight into the cluster size dependence of the adsorption energies of the reactants and afforded a scaling relationship between the adsorption energy of acetylene and the co-adsorption energies of the reactants (C2H2 and HCl), which could enable a qualitative prediction of the optimal AunSm cluster for the hydrochlorination of acetylene.

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Zhang Y, Gu X, Busari FK, et al. Size hierarchy of gold clusters in nanogold-catalyzed acetylene hydrochlorination. Nano Research, 2024, 17(11): 9594-9600. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6976-8
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Received: 16 June 2024
Revised: 13 August 2024
Accepted: 18 August 2024
Published: 09 September 2024
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