Surface reactions on MoO3 induced by tunable pulse infrared free electron laser

Shisuke Sato, Hironobu Niimi, Shushi Suzuki, Wang Jae Chun, Katsumi Irokawa, Haruo Kuroda, Kiyotaka Asakura

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Abstract

We have carried out ethanol conversion reactions on the MoO3 under the pulse infrared irradiations (period = 2 s) with several wavelengths emitted from free-electron-laser. We found a piece of evidence to show the dependence of activities in the ethanol conversion rate on the infrared wavelengths. When the wavelength was tuned to 967 cm-1, which corresponded to the absorption frequency of 0.167 nm Mo=O bond, C 2H5OH was converted mainly to C2H4 with CH3CHO as a minor product while no reaction occurred at 1200 cm-1 where no resonant vibration mode of MoO3 was present. The reaction products were different from those produced in thermal reactions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)558-559
Number of pages2
JournalChemistry Letters
Volume33
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 May 2004

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