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Chemical Reactivity and Catalytic Properties of Binary Gold Clusters: Atom by Atom Tuning in a Gas Phase Approach

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Industrial heterogeneous catalysts are complex multi-component systems which typically contain different transition metal particles supported on porous materials. For the future design of new tailor-made catalytic materials, a molecular level insight into the reaction mechanisms, energetics, and kinetics of the catalytic processes are mandatory. Furthermore, the detailed investigation of the nature of the interaction between different elements in alloy materials and their influence on the catalytic properties is essential. Free clusters in the gas phase represent simplified but suitable model systems which allow to obtain insight into catalytic processes on a rigorously molecular level. In this chapter we summarize experimental and theoretical studies on the reactivity and catalytic activity of free gold clusters and the change of their chemical properties caused by doping these clusters with transition metal atoms. In particular, we focus on three selected catalytic reactions, the oxidation of carbon monoxide, the conversion of methane , and the coupling of methane and ammonia, which have all been shown to be catalyzed by small binary gold clusters.

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Lang, S.M., Bernhardt, T.M. (2017). Chemical Reactivity and Catalytic Properties of Binary Gold Clusters: Atom by Atom Tuning in a Gas Phase Approach. In: Nguyen, M., Kiran, B. (eds) Clusters. Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48918-6_10

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