FTIR Adsorption Studies of H2O and CH3OH in the Isostructural H-SSZ-13 and H-SAPO-34: Formation of H-Bonded Adducts and Protonated Clusters
- 1 April 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Vol. 109 (16), 7724-7732
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp044324b
Abstract
The acidity of the isostructural H-SSZ-13 and H-SAPO-34 has been investigated by transmission FTIR spectroscopy using H2O and CH3OH as molecular probes. Interactions between the zeolitic samples and the probe molecules led to perturbations and proton transfers directly related to the acidity of the materials. The entire set of acidic sites in H-SSZ-13 interacts with H2O and CH3OH to give H-bonded adducts or protonated species. H3O+ is not formed in appreciable amounts upon H2O adsorption on H-SSZ-13, but at high coverages H2O generates clusters that have a proton affinity sufficiently high to abstract protons from the zeolite framework. Parallel experiments carried out for H-SAPO-34 showed that the H2O clusters abstract protons from Brønsted sites only to a minor extent. Moving to CH3OH, even if it has a higher proton affinity than H2O and should expectingly experience an easier protonation, proton transfer is totally absent in H-SAPO-34 under our set of conditions. The clear evidence of methanol protonation in H-SSZ-13 definitely states the strong acidic character of this material. When irreversibly adsorbed CH3OH is present in H-SSZ-13, an appreciable amount of (CH3)2O is formed upon heating to 573 K. Compared to its SAPO analogue, the present set of data indisputably points to H-SSZ-13 as the strongest Brønsted acidic material.Keywords
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