Strengthening chlorobenzene catalytic degradation rate over La_xSr_1-xMnO_3±δ by anchoring interfacial oxygen vacancy

Surficial lattice oxygen in perovskite compounds is a common participant during chloroaromatic catalytic degradation. Herein, we proposed a facile oxygen vacancy construction strategy for preparing high active La_xSr_1-xMnO_3±δ (LSMO) via NaBH₄ treatment. Results reveal that LSMO composites are not only reduced by NaBH₄ under mild condition, but also triggering a significant Sr segregation effect, which plays a key role in oxygen vacancy formation accounting to the electron donation from Sr to Mn acceptor and subsequent lattice oxygen activation. Moreover, the concentration of interfacial active oxygen species can be regulated by taming the La-Sr interaction with different Sr substitution proportions. The anchored oxygen vacancies (OVs) take advantage of electron capture or transfer and induce molecule oxygen into active oxygen species to react with chlorobenzene molecules, resulting in a preferential catalytic oxidation capacity. Amongst, reduced La_0.5Sr_0.5MnO_3±δ catalyst displays superior chlorobenzene destruction efficiency with 90% of which converted as low as 236 °C, which also exhibits a stable performance in long-time operation. However, the OVs would be refilled by H₂O molecules and results in a weaker water resistance for OVs anchored catalyst. In summary, the annihilation of OVs is the most important factor for catalyst deactivation. The research offers a new avenue to construct interfacial oxygen species in perovskite oxides during the chlorobenzene deep oxidation process.