OF47 A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Adsorption of Rh(CO)2(acac) on TiO2(110)

Wednesday, June 8, 2011: 4:40 PM
Ambassador Ballroom 3 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Homa Khosravian, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, Zhu Liang, Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, Bruce C. Gates, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, Michael Trenary, Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL and Randall J. Meyer, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
The use of organometallic precursors to create clusters in the size range of ~10 atoms gives us an avenue to a potentially new class of nanocatalysts.  Our DFT and STM study of Rh(CO)2(acac) on TiO2(110) shows that these transformations can take place under surprisingly mild conditions.

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