OE41 Quantifying the influence of metal-support electron-transfer and metal-metal interactions in catalysis by well-defined supported iridium complexes and clusters

Wednesday, June 8, 2011: 1:50 PM
Ambassador Ballroom 2 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Jing Lu1, Pedro Serna1, Ceren Aydin2, Nigel Browning2 and Bruce C. Gates1, (1)Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, (2)Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
Precise control of the structure of supported metal complexes and clusters is used to quantitatively unravel the role of metal-support electron-transfer and  metal-metal interactions in catalysis, which represents an important step forward in the field.

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