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Title: | Mechanism of molecular hydrogen dissociation on gold chains and clusters as model prototypes of nanostructures |
Authors: | Zanchet, Alexandre CSIC ORCID; Dorta-Urra, A. CSIC; Roncero, Octavio CSIC ORCID ; Flores, F.; Tablero, César; Paniagua, Miguel; Aguado, Alfredo CSIC ORCID | Issue Date: | 2009 | Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) | Citation: | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11: 10122–10131(2009) | Abstract: | The reactivity of H2 on several gold clusters is studied using density functional theory with generalized gradient approximation methods, as model systems designed to study the main effects determining their catalytic properties under controlled conditions. Border effects are studied in finite linear gold chains of increasing size and compared with the corresponding periodic systems. In these linear chains, the reaction can proceed with no barrier along the minimum energy path, presenting a deep chemisorption well of E1.4 eV. The mechanism presents an important dependence on the initial attacking site of the chain. Linear Au4 chains joined to model-nanocontacts, formed by 2 or 3 gold atoms, in a planar triangle or in a pyramid, respectively, are also studied. The reaction barriers found in these two cases are E0.24 and 0.16 eV, respectively, corresponding to H2 attacking the more coordinated edge atom of the linear chain. The study is extended to planar clusters with coordinations IV and VI, for which higher H2 dissociation barriers are found. However, when the planar gold clusters are folded, and the Au–Au distances elongated, the reactivity increases considerably. This is not due to a change of coordination, but to a larger flexibility of the gold orbitals to form bonds with hydrogen atoms, when the planar sd-hybridization is broken. Finally, it is concluded that the major factor determining the reactivity of gold clusters is not strictly the coordination of gold atoms but their binding structure and some border effects. | Publisher version (URL): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b910200k | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/18765 | DOI: | 10.1039/b910200k | ISSN: | 1463-9076 |
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