The Brønsted−Evans−Polanyi Correlations in Oxidation Catalysis

Abstract

The experimental Brønsted–Evans–Polanyi (BEP) correlations in the field of oxidation catalysis, describing both the liquid-phase reactions on metal complexes and especially the gas-phase oxidations on metal oxides including the O2 isotopic exchange, were analyzed. It was shown that the rate of deep oxidations on metal oxides is determined by two thermodynamic parameters of a catalytic system: the heat of oxygen adsorption, QO2, and the heat of reaction, Qr, which constitute a unified BEP descriptive parameter Quni = (Qr – QO2). The correlations based on the energy of chemical bonds that are cleaved or formed in the course of reaction are more limited and less predictive.