TY - JOUR
T1 - Oxidant or Catalyst for Oxidation? A Study of How Structure and Disorder Change the Selectivity for Direct versus Catalytic Oxidation Mediated by Manganese(III,IV) Oxides
AU - Sabri, Mayada
AU - King, Hannah J.
AU - Gummow, Rosalind J.
AU - Lu, Xunyu
AU - Zhao, Chuan
AU - Oelgemöller, Michael
AU - Chang, Lan-Yun
AU - Hocking, Rosalie K.
N1 - Funding Information:
Part of this research was undertaken on the X-ray absorption spectroscopy beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, a part of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO). R.K.H. additionally acknowledges Swinburne University of Technology for a Vice Chancellor’s Women in STEM fellowship and James Cook University for supporting the early stages of this research. M.S. acknowledges the Ministry of Higher Education of Iraq for a scholarship, and H.J.K. acknowledges the Australian Government for an APA.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2018/11/27
Y1 - 2018/11/27
N2 - Structure type and disorder have become important questions in catalyst design, with the most active catalysts often noted to be "disordered" or "amorphous" in nature. To quantify the effects of disorder and structure type systematically, a test set of manganese(III,IV) oxides was developed and their reactivity as oxidants and catalysts tested against three substrates: methylene blue, hydrogen peroxide, and water. We find that disorder destabilizes the materials thermodynamically, making them stronger chemical oxidants but not necessarily better catalysts. For the disproportionation of H2O2 and the oxidative decomposition of methylene blue, MnOx-mediated direct oxidation competes with catalytically mediated oxidation, making the most disordered materials the worst catalysts, whereas for water oxidation, the most disordered materials and the strongest chemical oxidants are also the best catalysts. Even though the manganese(III,IV) oxide materials were able to oxidize both methylene blue and peroxides directly, the same materials were able to act as catalysts for the oxidation of methylene blue in the presence of peroxides. This implies that effects of electron transfer time scales are important and strongly affected by structure type and disorder. This is discussed in the context of catalyst design.
AB - Structure type and disorder have become important questions in catalyst design, with the most active catalysts often noted to be "disordered" or "amorphous" in nature. To quantify the effects of disorder and structure type systematically, a test set of manganese(III,IV) oxides was developed and their reactivity as oxidants and catalysts tested against three substrates: methylene blue, hydrogen peroxide, and water. We find that disorder destabilizes the materials thermodynamically, making them stronger chemical oxidants but not necessarily better catalysts. For the disproportionation of H2O2 and the oxidative decomposition of methylene blue, MnOx-mediated direct oxidation competes with catalytically mediated oxidation, making the most disordered materials the worst catalysts, whereas for water oxidation, the most disordered materials and the strongest chemical oxidants are also the best catalysts. Even though the manganese(III,IV) oxide materials were able to oxidize both methylene blue and peroxides directly, the same materials were able to act as catalysts for the oxidation of methylene blue in the presence of peroxides. This implies that effects of electron transfer time scales are important and strongly affected by structure type and disorder. This is discussed in the context of catalyst design.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03661
DO - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03661
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85056349121
SN - 0897-4756
VL - 30
SP - 8244
EP - 8256
JO - Chemistry of Materials
JF - Chemistry of Materials
IS - 22
ER -