Carbon-13 NMR and Infrared Spectroscopic Investigations of Acetone Adsorbed on Silica Gel Surfaces THOMAS BERNSTEIN, DIETER MICHEL, AND HARRY PFEIFER Karl-Marx-UniversitiJt, Sektion Physik, Linn~strafle 5. DDR-7010 Leipzig, German Democratic Republic AND PETER FINK Friedrich-Schiller-Universiti~t, Sektion Chemie, Lessingstra[3e I0, DDR-6900 Jena, German Democratic Republic Received June 3, 1980; accepted January 6, 1981 Carbon-13 NMR and IR investigations were carried out for adsorption of acetone on partially dehydroxylated and on methylated silica gel samples. The appreciable downfield shift for the carbon-13 resonance line of the C = O group on partially dehydroxylated silica gel (ca. 9 ppm with respect to adsorption on methylated silica gel at higher coverages) and the shift of the IR stretching vibration band of the surface hydroxyl groups (A~on = 370 cm -I) are due to a strong interaction of the acetone molecules with the surface hydroxyl groups. The four IR bands observed for the C = O stretching vibration of acetone adsorbed on partially dehydroxylated silica gel are ascribed to interactions with geminal OH groups, with isolated (free) OH groups, with nonhydroxylic adsorption sites, and to the gaseous state. The number of interacting sites evaluated from the NMR shifts was 1.4/nm~ and 0.3/nm~ for partially dehydroxylated and methylated silica gel, respectively. (i) characterize the interaction of acetone molecules with surface sites of silica gel, (ii) elucidate the role of the surface hydroxyl groups by comparing the interaction of molecules with partially dehydroxylated and with methylated silica gel surfaces, and (iii) derive more quantitative conclusions concerning the strength of the interaction and the number of adsorption sites. INTRODUCTION The interaction of hydrocarbons with silica-containing adsorbents and the characterization of the adsorption sites were discussed in numerous papers (1-4). Among the different spectroscopic methods which were applied in these studies, nuclear magnetic resonance, and especially carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy (2), is a rather new method and its combination with infrared spectroscopy seems to be of great importance for a deeper understanding of adsorption phenomena. In this work we combine the results of carbon-13 high-resolution NMR and of infrared spectroscopic measurements in order to MATERIALS AND METHODS All measurements were performed at room temperature. Carbon- 13 NMR spectra were taken at 22.63 MHz using a Bruker HX 90 Fourier transform spectrometer. The shifts are referred to the shifts of acetone molecules adsorbed on the methyl- 310 0021-9797/81/120310-08502.00/0 copyright© 1981by AcademicPress, Inc. All fightsof reproductionin any formreserved. Journal of Colloidand InterfaceScience, Vol.84, No. 2, December1981 NMR A N D IR O F A C E T O N E A D S O R B E D ON S I L I C A G E L ated surface at higher coverages (4.30 statistical monolayers) in order to separate the influence of bulk susceptibility of the adsorbent and of intermolecular interactions between the adsorbed molecules. Positive shifts are to lower field. The experimental error is about ___0.5 ppm. The infrared spectroscopic measurements were carried out with a Zeiss UR 20 spectrometer. Thin tablets (o.d. 2 cm, weight about 4-5 mg/cm2) were placed in a quartz cell (with CaFz windows) and pretreated as described below. As adsorbates we used acetone p.a. grade (VEB Laborchemie, Apolda, German Democratic Republic), acetone enriched with about 40% carbon-13 nuclei in both positions and acetone enriched about 95% in the CO group only (Stohler Isotope Chemicals, Innerberg, Switzerland). The adsorbent was Kieselgel according to Stahl (Fa. Merck, Darmstadt, Federal Republic of Germany) with a specific surface area (BET, N2, 77 K) of 320 mZ/g, The methylated specimens were prepared starting from silica gel which was partially dehydroxylated at 570 and 1070 K for NMR and IR samples, respectively. By means of a treatment with hexamethyldisilazane at 470 K according to the following scheme (5) ~ S i O H + (CH3)~-Si-NH-Si(CH3)3 ~ Si-O-Si-(CH3)3 + (CH3)3-Si-NH2, ~ S i O H + (CH3)3-Si-NH2 ~ ~ Si-O-Si-(CH3)~ + NH3 the surface hydroxyl groups were substituted by trimethyl silyl groups which are stable to hydrolysis at room temperature and to thermal treatment in vacuo up to 720 K (6). The specific surface area of the methylated samples was 250 m2/g and the residual concentration of surface hydroxyl groups about 0.1/nm 2. The latter value was obtained from the decrease of the extinction of the OH stretch- 311 ing vibration band after methylation by comparing with standard values for the unmodified silica gel. For the carbon-13 NMR measurements both hydroxylated and methylated samples were activated at 670 K before adsorption. For the IR measurements the silica gel samples were pretreated at 1070 K because at lower temperatures a broad absorption band due to bound hydroxyl groups occurs which does not allow a sufficiently accurate study of the stretching vibration of the free hydroxyl groups and its perturbation by adsorbed molecules. On the other hand these bound hydroxyl groups do not show, with respect to free OH groups, a preferent hydrogen bond formation with adsorbed molecules (7, 8). For NMR measurements the greater number of hydroxyl groups at a pretreatment temperature of 670 K (5.50H/nm 2 as compared with 0.8 OH/nm 2 at a pretreatment temperature of 1070 K) is essential in order to obtain higher concentrations for the adsorbed molecules. The hydroxyl group concentrations were measured by means of 1H NMR broad-line techniques (cf. Ref. (3)) and agree within the limits of experimental error (_+ 15%) with the standard values. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Carbon-13 NMR Investigations Carbon-13 NMR chemical shifts for molecules adsorbed on normal and methylated silica gels are listed in Table I. There is no dependence of the resonance shifts on the number of adsorbed molecules for the carbons of the methyl groups but a clear effect on the carbonylic carbon in both types of silica gel (cf. also Fig. 1). The large downfield shift of the latter carbon in the case of the adsorption on partially dehydroxylated silica gel and the clear difference to the values obtained for methylated silica gel indicate clearly the existence of a strong interaction between the carbonyl group of acetone and the surface hydroxyl Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 84, No. 2, December 1981 3 12 BERNSTEIN ET AL. TABLEI fast exchange Coverage Dependence of 1~C NMR Shifts 8(C")) of Adsorbed Acetone ((C(1)H3)2C(2)O) Relative to the Shifts 6m(C")) for Adsorption on Methylated Silica Gel (Sample with a Coverage of 4.30 Statistical Monolayers): ~ ( C (i)) = ~°bs(C(i)) -- ~m(C(i)) (ppm) Coverage a (statistical monolayers) 0.01 0.05 0.07 0.15 0.30 0.40 0.75 1.30 8(C (~)) 8(C m ) 8(C ~2)) -1.3 9.2 -0.7 4.6 4.1 3.9 -- -0.9 -1.5 -- 8.3 -1.1 -1.3 7.5 -- 2.50 4.30 -- -- -- -0.9 - 1.5 -0.8 6.8 5.8 -0.8 4.0 -0.7 -0.7 - 1.4 -0.0 2.6 0.0 0.0 -0.0 -0.1 -4.1 -0.3 -7.9 0.0 0.0 2.6 1.4 Liquid state Gaseous state (30) - 2.9 6AM. [2] 8AM + kNI6--~--]2 - kN(~.--~-I \SAM/ \SAM/ . [3] F r o m E q . [3] it f o l l o w s 8 _ _ kN + kNa 1 + -- 2kN 8AM ___ [41 -- 2kN F o r a s t r o n g c o m p l e x , i . e . , if t h e c o n d i t i o n >> 1 is fulfilled, w e o b t a i n f r o m E q . [4]: kN a Surface area of the acetone molecule: 0.4 nm2. - 8AM g r o u p s . T h e r e s i d u a l d o w n f i e l d shift f o r t h e carbonylic carbon on methylated samples a r i s e s f r o m an i n t e r a c t i o n w i t h t h e r e s i d u a l OH groups and a smaller number of nonhydroxylic centers (see below). I t is p o s s i b l e to d e s c r i b e t h e e q u i l i b r i u m among free molecules (M), free adsorption s i t e s ( A ) , a n d t h e c o m p l e x e s (MA) b y t h e equation N 8) 8AM 8(C m ) NAM F r o m E q s . [1] a n d [2] o n e finds 8_kNA(1 Methylated silica gel Silica gel 8- + 2 _+ 2N [5] ~ " A c c o r d i n g to Eq. [5], t h e o b s e r v e d r e s o n a n c e shift 8 r e m a i n s c o n s t a n t , 8 = 8AM, as ~(O~,) 8,0 6.C k M + A <-~--MA, from which the relation k = 4'CL SAM (N - NAM)(NA -- NaM) [1] among the total number of adsorption sites (NA), the number of complexes (NAM), a n d t h e t o t a l n u m b e r o f m o l e c u l e s (N) follows. I f 6 d e n o t e s t h e o b s e r v e d r e s o n a n c e shift a n d 6AM t h e shift o f a m o l e c u l e on an a d s o r p t i o n site, w e o b t a i n in t h e c a s e o f Journal of Colloidand Interface Science, Vol. 84, No. 2, December 1981 2£ 2.0 4.0 Covetocje [m staotnisotic(l~s]alyer FIG. 1. Coverage dependence of x3C NMR shifts 8(0 2)) of the carbonylic carbon of acetone adsorbed on partially dehydroxylated (Q) and methylated (×) silica gel. NMR AND IR OF ACETONE ADSORBED ON SILICA GEL long as the total number of the adsorbed molecules is less than the number NA of sites (positive sign of Eq. [5]). If N > N~ we obtain a decrease of the observed shift ~ with increasing number N of molecules (negative sign of Eq. [5]). In our case, however, we do not observe such a behavior even for the lowest coverages used. Consequently, we still find free molecules although the adsorption sites are not completely occupied. Therefore the assumption of a strong complex as discussed above cannot be used and it is impossible to derive the resonance shift ~AM of the complex by means of a simple direct extrapolation of the observed shifts to zero coverage. A more suitable form of Eq. [3] is given by ~AM__kNa 8 + 1 + __N kNA 1 - . 313 ~A~ s~z' ~o 8 4 ppm 2 • a) 2 6 4 8 SAM = I 0 ppm 10 N (I - S/SAM ) 3AM ~- 0 ppm SAM = 5 ppm [6] NA o12 A plot of (~AM/~) over N(1-6/~AM) should give a straight line with the slope N~ 1. Therefore, in order to analyze the experimental shift 8 as a function of the number of adsorbed molecules, the quantity ~AM has to be chosen in such a way that a straight line results. The problem is to find the smallest possible value 6AM by this trial-anderror procedure. For the solution of Eq. [6] the method o f least squares is used (cf. Fig. 2). Thus, the minimum error arises for partially dehydroxylated specimens if 6aM is chosen to lie between 10 and 15 ppm. The mean number of sites is 1.4 _+ 0.2/nmL In the case of methylated samples the procedure leads ~AM = 7-- l0 ppm and the mean number o f sites is 0.3 _+ 0.1/nm 2. These values are in a reasonable agreement with the concentrations of surface hydroxyl groups for our samples. It seems to be unlikely that all hydroxyl groups can interact with the molecules because of sterical reasons. The computations reveal that the resonance shifts 8AM are in both cases ca. 10 ppm. Hence the adsorption sites are of the same nature. ' o'.4 ' & ' & ' i.~" N(1-~/~AM) Fm. 2. Plot of the resonance shifts according to Eq. [6] for acetone adsorbed on partially dehydroxylated (a) and methylated (b) silica gel. Consequently, the results support directly the assumption o f a predominant interaction between acetone molecules and surface hydroxyl groups. Hence, especially for the methylated samples with a distorted surface structure, the total number of adsorption sites consists of the small amount of remaining hydroxyl groups (cf. above) and some nonhydroxylic adsorption sites (cf. the discussion of the IR results) which additionally interact with adsorbate molecules. The values of the equilibrium constants k derived from Eq. [6] are ca. 2 for both cases. Unfortunately the error is rather large so that possible small differences cannot be seen. Infrared Spectroscopic Investigations Adsorption on partially dehydroxylated silica gel. It is well known (1, 4, 9) that Journal of Colloidand Interface Science, Vol. 84, No. 2, December 1981 314 BERNSTEIN ET AL. acetone molecules adsorbed on silica gel surfaces interact with surface hydroxyl groups. This interaction leads to a decrease of the extinction of the stretching vibration band of the free surface hydroxyl groups (f'oH = 3748 cm -~) and to the occurrence of a broad band due to h y d r o x y l groups interacting with acetone molecules. This latter band is shifted by 330-395 cm -~ to lower wavenumbers for surface coverages of about 0 = 1 statistical monolayers (9-18) and characterizes the hydrogen-bonding interaction between acetone and the free silanol groups. The respective specific contribution to the interaction energy is about 30 kJ/mole (19). For our silica gel which was dehydroxylated at 1070 K, the wavenumbers f'oa were shifted by 290 and 370 cm -1 for very low and monolayer surface coverages, respectively (cf. Table II). In the region of the C ~ O stretching vibration of acetone we observed four bands in d e p e n d e n c e on the surface coverage (cf. Fig. 3): The band at 1710 cm -~ with a shoulder at 1690 cm -~ occurs for a small number of adsorbed TABLE H Characteristic IR Wavenumbers for the Systems Acetone/Partially Dehydroxylated Silica Gel (a) and Acetone/Methylated Silica Gel (b) a Vapor pressure of acetone (Pa) b ~c:=o (era-') ~'oa (era -1 ) f~c~--~-o (era-') 1.3 x 102 1690 (shoulder) 1710 290 1710 2.7 x 102 1690 (shoulder) 1710 1735 (shoulder) 320 1710 1720 1735 6.6 x 102 1690 (shoulder) 1710 1735 340 1710 (shoulder) 1720 1735 10.6 x 102 1690 (shoulder) 1710 1720 1737 370 1720 1737 Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 84, No. 2, December 1981 absor- 1710 k if1722:57 e~,~ )ressure[ 172x~/~1757 1722 ~1757 pressure 1064 951 665 665 >-66 1690 200 133 Lz~ ~ 19;o~ [o~-,; I .t735 599 266 ~7oo ~8oo 19oo~ ~:~-,] FIG. 3. IR spectra of the Uc=o region of acetone adsorbed on partially dehydroxylated (a) and methylated (b) silica gel in dependence on the adsorbate pressure. acetone molecules. With increasing coverage further bands appear at 1720 cm -1 and at 1735-1737 c m - L As in Refs. (14, 20) the band at 1710 cm -1 is ascribed to adsorbed molecules which are involved in hydrogen-bonding interaction with isolated hydroxyl groups, i.e., a so-called 1:1 interaction. The IR absorption at 1690 cm -1 revealed for all coverages about the same small relative intensity with respect to the band at 1710 cm -~ and disappeared if the total concentration of O H groups is drastically reduced (e.g., by methylation, see below). Hence the shoulder at 1690 cm -1 cannot be related to an interaction with nonhydroxylic surface sites. Furthermore, its assignment to the Vc=c stretching vibration of the enol form of acetone can be rejected. The possibility that the enol form might have a much higher relative abundance in the adsorbed state than for liquid acetone (where its total amount is much less than 1%) is excluded because in this case the laC resonance lines for the methyl carbons should be shifted to lower frequencies with respect to the liquid due to proton exchange between the keto and enol tautomers. For partially dehydroxylated silica gels the C = O stretching band at 1690 cm -~ is ascribed (14, 20) to adsorption involving NMR AND IR OF ACETONE ADSORBED ON SILICA GEL hydrogen-bonding interaction between one molecule and two hydroxyl groups. However, the n u m b e r of adjacent hydroxyl groups interacting with each other is negligibly small for samples dehydroxylated at 1070 K. Besides the isolated hydroxyls only geminal surface hydroxyl groups remain which might be responsible for the shoulder at 1690 cm -1. The occurrence of geminal O H groups has been checked recently by IR spectroscopy both for silica gel (21) and for aerosil (22). Their relative amount is about 10% for aerosil and less than 20% for silica gel after dehydroxylation at 1070 K (6). This low concentration is consistent with the small extinction of the band at 1690 cm -1. The IR spectra (Fig. 3a) show that acetone molecules first o f all interact with hydroxyl groups (up to 6.6 × 102 Pa). This can be checked independently if we compare the adsorption isotherm measured gravimetrically at 323 K (Fig. 4) with an adsorption isotherm determined by IR spectroscopy (the specimen in the infrared beam is exposed to a temperature of about 320 K). The latter isotherm was evaluated from the decrease of the extinction of the isolated O H groups with increasing acetone pressure neglecting the small amount of molecules interacting with geminal groups. From a comparison of the two isotherms we conclude that only above a pressure of 6.6 × 102 Pa the adsorption of acetone molecules occurs on other sites than the surface h y d r o x y l groups. This is in agreement with the appearance of the band at 1720 cm -1. Therefore together with the results for methylated silica gel (see below), this band is attributed to an interaction with nonhydroxylic adsorption sites on the surface. The values of the w a v e n u m b e r for bands occurring at the highest coverages (17351737 cm -1) are typical for acetone molecules in the gaseous state. The other bands for adsorbed acetone at 1370 ( ~ s y , C - - H ) , 1430 (Sasy,c-H), 2927, 2973, and 3020 cm -~ (vc-H) belonging to sym- 315 Molecules per nmz o 1.4 1( b 0.~ 0.6 0,4 0.2 ,; ~'o io 2o s; vepour pressure of acetone [Pa] FIG. 4. Adsorption isotherms for partially dehydroxylated silica gel (pretreated at 1070 K) at 323 K; (a) gravimetrical adsorption isotherm; (b) IR spectroscopically determined isotherm of the singular SiOH groups interacting with acetone molecules. metric and asymmetric bending vibrations and to different C - H stretching vibrations of the methyl group, respectively, deviate only slightly from the corresponding values in the gaseous state (1363, 1435, 2927, 2972, and 3018 cm -1 (23)). As is shown in Table II the shift A~oH of the wavenumbers of interacting hydroxyls increases from 290 to 370 cm -j with growing acetone coverage. M o r e o v e r the bandshape is asymmetric. An even higher value for the shift (439 cm -1) in the case of a statistical monolayer of acetone on aerosil pretreated at 1070 K was reported by Curthoys et al. (18). The augmentation of the band shift with increasing coverage has been found also for other adsorbates. McDonald (24) explained this p h e n o m e n o n for nitrogen adsorption on silica as due to one nitrogen molecule interacting with several hydroxyl groups at low coverages. At higher coverages a redistribution occurs; as a result a bond is formed between each molecule and a hydroxyl group which is accompanied by an increase of the interJournal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 84, No. 2, December 1981 316 BERNSTEIN action energy for each hydroxyl group. In the case of aromatic molecules the increase in the band shift of the OH groups was explained in terms of a closer interaction or reorientation of the molecules with growing coverage (25). Griffiths et al. (20) distinguished two modes of adsorption of acetone from carbon tetrachloride solution onto silica. The weaker adsorption involves single hydrogen-bonding interaction between isolated hydroxyl groups and acetone and leads to spectral shifts A~oa = 306 cm -1 and A~co = 15 cm -1 (solution: ~co = 1720 cm -~, adsorption: f'co = 1705 cm-0. The stronger adsorption is characterized by spectral shifts Af'on = 246 cm -~ and Af'co = 30 cm -~. According to Ref. (20) the doubling of the shift of the keto group supports the suggestion that each adsorbed molecule is involved in hydrogen bonding with two adjacent hydroxyl groups. This interpretation applied to our system would imply that at low coverages acetone molecules should interact preferably with geminal hydroxyl groups. The shift of the band maximum would then be caused by an increasing participation of isolated hydroxyl groups involved in 1:1 interactions with adsorbed acetone molecules. However, this conclusion is inconsistent with the fact that the extinction of the IR band at 1690 cm -1 increases proportionally to the extinction of the band at 1710 cm -1 in that interval of rising coverages where we observe the increase of the shift Abort. Therefore, a preferent adsorption of acetone molecules at geminal hydroxyl groups must be excluded and the above explanation cannot be applied to our system. Asymmetric shapes of distorted OH groups belonging to hydrogen-bonding interactions of phenol with proton acceptors in solution (certain carbonylic compounds like ketones and chinones) were explained by Dunken and Fritzsche (26, 27) in terms of a superposition of two symmetric broad IR bands of distorted OH groups. It could Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 84, No. 2, December 1981 ET AL. be shown that the two components are due to different spatial arrangements ("isomerism") of the hydrogen bond O - - H . . . . O~-C (i.e., interaction of the proton of the hydroxyl group with the sp 2 orbitals of the oxygen in the CO group and an interaction with 7r orbitals of the CO group, respectively) and that they are not due to 1:1 and 1:2 hydrogen-bonding interactions between proton acceptor and one or two hydroxyl groups, respectively. Similar conclusions were drawn by Castagna et al. (28) and by Conzi et al. (29). It is interesting to note that the IR spectrum in Ref. (27) reveals only one C~---O stretching band for the interacting molecules. Hence, the appearance of two C = O bands for interacting acetone molecules and the asymmetry observed for the shifted O--H stretching vibration band in the present work must not be correlated necessarily with each other. A d s o r p t i o n on rnethylated silica gel. For a vapor pressure of about 1.3 x 10~ Pa only a weak C~---O stretching band at 1710 cm -1 appears which is assigned to acetone molecules adsorbed at residual surface hydroxyl groups (3%). Increasing the vapor pressure to only 2.7 × 102 Pa gives rise to the bands at 1720-1722 cm -1 and at 1735-1737 cm -1 which dominate with growing coverage (cf. Table II and Fig. 3b). From these results it follows that only a very small number of acetone molecules interacts with the residual hydroxyl groups and that the overwhelming part is adsorbed on nonhydroxylic adsorption sites (band at 1720-1722 cm-i). The wavenumbers for the C - - H vibrations of the trimethylsilyl groups change only insignificantly (2915 2920 cm -~, 2969---> 2972 cm-0 due to acetone adsorption. CONCLUSIONS (i) Carbon-13 NMR spectra were studied for acetone molecules adsorbed on partially dehydroxylated silica gel (pretreatment temperature 670 K) and methylated silica NMR AND IR OF ACETONE ADSORBED ON SILICA GEL gel surfaces. The appreciable downfield shift for the carbon of the C : O group on partially dehydroxylated surfaces is due to hydrogen-bonding interactions with surface hydroxyl groups. 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