Issue 29, 2013

Dehydration and dehydrogenation of ethylene glycol on rutile TiO2(110)

Abstract

The interactions of ethylene glycol with a partially reduced rutile TiO2(110) surface have been studied using temperature programmed desorption (TPD). The saturation coverage on surface Ti rows is determined to be 0.43 monolayer (ML), slightly less than one ethylene glycol per two Ti sites. Most of the adsorbed ethylene glycol (∼80%) undergoes further reactions to yield other products. Two major channels are observed, dehydration yielding ethylene and water and dehydrogenation yielding acetaldehyde and hydrogen. Hydrogen formation is rather surprising as it has not been observed previously on TiO2(110) from simple organic molecules. The coverage dependent yields of ethylene and acetaldehyde correlate well with those of water and hydrogen, respectively. Dehydration dominates at lower ethylene glycol coverages (<0.2 ML) and plateaus as the coverage is increased to saturation. Dehydrogenation is observed primarily at higher ethylene glycol coverages (>0.2 ML). Our results suggest that the observed dehydration and dehydrogenation reactions proceed via different surface intermediates.

Graphical abstract: Dehydration and dehydrogenation of ethylene glycol on rutile TiO2(110)

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Feb 2013
Accepted
21 May 2013
First published
21 May 2013

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 12180-12186

Dehydration and dehydrogenation of ethylene glycol on rutile TiO2(110)

Z. Li, B. D. Kay and Z. Dohnálek, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 12180 DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50687H

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