The efficiency of the protium-tritium isotope exchange in the sodium 4-phenylbenzoate (PBNa) molecule on activating the reaction on a tungsten filament at 1940 K (target temperature 77 and 295 K) and on heating the substrate supported on 5% Pd/C in the presence of gaseous tritium is compared. It is shown that the reaction mechanism is laregly determined by the properties of the material on which this reaction occurs and not only by the method of generation of activated tritium species. In the reaction of tritium atom with PBNa deposited on glass walls of the reaction vessel, the isotope substitution of tritium for protium occurred by the radical mechanism, leading to the formation of [ 3 H]PBNa and hydrogenation products. It is assumed that the spillover of tritium atom over the support (carbon) surface is accompanied by polarization of the electronic shell and formation of the cluster ( 3 H + )(ē), which leads to changes in the composition of the reaction products. The combined treatment of PBNa on 5% Pd/C allows estimation of the concentration of clusters on the carbon surface, which reaches 10.9 particles per 100 nm 2 (9.2 nm 2 per cluster).Hydrogen spillover on various materials is being actively studied today, because this phenomenon underlies many catalytic reactions and can favor the development of efficient methods for hydrogen storage [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Interaction of hydrogen molecules with platinum group metals leads to the formation of activated hydrogen species capable of migration from the catalyst on the support. The spillover mechanism and the reactivity of the migrating species are determined by the nature of the surface over which the hydrogen activated on the catalyst migrates. Although ample experimental data [1-6] demonstrate the possibility of hydrogen spillover on various supports, the calculations made in [7] show that hydrogen spillover is efficient only on the surface of materials on which redox reactions can occur, e.g., on the surface of transition metal oxides. In this case, a proton interacting with oxygen anions migrates over the surface, which is accompanied by the electron transfer from the reduced M (n-1)+ cation to the adjacent M n+ cation [8,9]. The spillover intensity is determined by the activation energy of the proton and electron migration in the matrix. Adsorbed water plays an important role in such migration, which was demonstrated by the calculations adequately describing the hydrogen migration over the WO 3 surface [10]: The О-Н bond dissociation energy is compensated by the simultaneous formation of a new О-Н bond. Similar mechanism was suggested for the hydrogen spillover over the MoO 3 surface [11]. The hydrogen spillover on materials incapable of reversible redox reactions is attributed to the presence of defects or impurity atoms on the support surface [12].In adsorption of hydrogen atoms on materials characterized by the charge distribution on the surface or by high dipole moments, the electronic shell of the atom undergoes deformation polarization up to the f...