Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 665.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20131066

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Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide on Atomic Clusters

LIU Qingyu1,2, HE Shenggui1,*()   

  1. 1. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2013-11-04 Online:2014-04-10 Published:2013-12-30
  • Contact: HE Shenggui E-mail:shengguihe@iccas.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.20933008 and 21325314), Major Research Plan of China(Nos.2013CB834603 and 2011CB932302), and Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.CMS-PY-201306)

Abstract:

Carbon monoxide binds to hemoglobin much more tightly than does molecular oxygen, so CO is highly toxic to humans and animals. Oxidation of CO into CO2 is a major solution to removal of carbon monoxide in air purification. CO is also a simple molecule and CO oxidation serves as a prototypical reaction for heterogeneous processes. Atomic clusters composed of limited numbers of atoms are experimentally and theoretically tractable models for heterogeneous catalysis. During the last decade, a number of publications have been devoted to understanding the CO oxidation at a molecular level based on the investigations of gas phase atomic clusters under controlled and well reproducible conditions. In this review, we will go through the reported CO oxidations by gas phase atomic clusters. Advantages, new insights, and problems to be solved involved with the cluster approach for the title reaction will be summarized.

Key words: CO oxidation, Catalysis, Atomic cluster, Mass spectrometry, Density functional theory computation

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