Abstract
Abstract The mechanism of the acetonitrile hydrogenation to amines over a platinum/alumina catalyst was investigated by in situ infrared spectroscopy. The reaction was studied under realistic conditions -liquid phase using toluene as solvent- using a flow-through cell-microreactor in Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) mode. Acetonitrile linearly chemisorbed on platinum sites is stepwise hydrogenated to form an imine surface intermediate (CH3CH = NH), which in turn is hydrogenated to ethylamine. Using deuterium, the sequential formation of C D and N D bonds was observed. Then, imine intermediate can condense producing diethylamine and triethylamine, giving ammonia as a by-product. The temporal evolution of the IR signals was modeled using a proposed microkinetic mechanism and intrinsic kinetic constants were obtained under chemical control.
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