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Is the line between physisorption and chemisorption species specific?

I was studying about heterogenous catalysis, and my Professor said something along the line, "When the adsorption energy is comparable to (or lower than) heat of evaporation, then it is ...
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Application of BET to micropore

'application of the BET equation should be restricted to the range where the term n(1 – p/p0) continuously increases with p/p0'see 5.2.2 in the reference This is one of the criterias IUPAC proposes ...
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Pd-catalysed hydrogenation of imines

Hydrogenation of imines to amines by $\ce{H2}$ on $\ce{Pd/C}$ has been used e.g. in the synthesis of Pumiliotoxin. By contrast, carbonyl groups are rarely reduced in this way, which I though was due ...
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Is there a direct relationship between the adsorption energy and the catalytic activty

I have seen in several papers, where people correlate adsorption energy with the catalytic activity; the greater the adsorption energy, the greater would be the catalytic activity. I understand that ...
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Catalysist activation energy - the Brønsted-Evans-Polanyi relation

I have stumbled upon something called the Brønsted-Evans-Polanyi relation in a study about the design of catalysts (for reactions like those in hydrocracking fuel production.) The relation shows that ...
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Type of adsorption in catalysis

why type of adsorption takes place during catalysis? It can't be physisorption because it involves formation of chemical bond. It shouldn't be chemisorption too because it is characterised by ...
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