O-Tu-BRB-8 Catalytic Consequences of Open Metal Clusters Synthesized via Simple Oxidative Treatment

Tuesday, June 4, 2013: 1:50 PM
Ballroom B (Galt House Hotel)
Ron C. Runnebaum1, Alexander Okrut1, Xiaoying Ouyang1, Ceren Aydin2, Sonjong Hwang3, Ilke Arslan4, Bruce C. Gates2 and Alexander Katz1, (1)University of California Berkeley, USA, (2)University of California Davis, USA, (3)California Institute of Technology, USA, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA.
Simple oxidative treatment is shown to activate metal carbonyl clusters by creating open sites to affect a 100­–fold catalytic rate enhancement of C2H4 hydrogenation.  Use of bulky organic ligands, which are significantly larger than the metal core, results in an open cluster catalyst that is stable during catalysis after oxidative treatment.

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