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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 109: Heterogeneous Catalysis on Metal Oxides

O 109.5: Talk

Thursday, March 19, 2020, 16:00–16:15, TRE Phy

Photocatalytic Conversion of Tertiary Alcohols on Rutile Titania — •Carla Courtois, Moritz Eder, Kordula Schnabl, Constantin Walenta, Martin Tschurl, and Ueli Heiz — Chair of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry & Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85748 Garching, Germany

While tertiary alcohols are usually inert towards oxidation, photocatalysis of tertiary alcohols on a bare single crystal rutile titania show new and unexpected reaction pathways. Tertiary alcohols are selectively photo-oxidized on titania at room temperature by a C-C bond cleavage leading to a ketone and the respective alkane. Studies under highly defined vacuum conditions allow elucidating the reaction mechanism and the impact of adding a metal co-catalyst on the product spectrum.