Methyl tunnelling of adsorbed methoxy on alumina catalysts
Methyl tunnelling of adsorbed methoxy on alumina catalysts
Authors (6): S. F. Parker, V. G. Sakai, D. Lennon, A. Jackson, M. R. Johnson, U. A. Jayasooriya
Themes: Design
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc08223d
Citations: 2
Pub type: article-journal
Pub year: 2016

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Issue: 2

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Publication date(s): 2016 (online)

Pages: 366-369

Volume: 52 Issue: 2

Journal: Chemical Communications

Link: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/CC/C5CC08223D

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5CC08223D

We show that the methyl group of the adsorbed methoxy intermediate on industrial grade alumina catalysts undergoes rotational tunnelling, potentially allowing the subtle intermolecular interactions between adsorbed species and catalyst to be probed.

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the methyl group of the adsorbed methoxy intermediate on industrial grade alumina catalysts undergoes rotational tunnelling on the wavenumber energy scale. The data show that this is clearly the case for a fraction of the methyl groups and potentially allows the subtle intermolecular interactions between adsorbed species and catalyst to be probed through the exponential dependence of the tunnel frequency on the rotational potential.

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