O-Tu-403-8 Molecular Engineering of Single-Site Catalysts on Surfaces

Tuesday, June 16, 2015: 3:40 PM
403-405 (Lawrence Convention Center)
Ron Runnebaum1,2, Igor Busygin1,2, Alexander Okrut2, Joey Kistler3, Richard Ouyang1, Bob Rahardjo2, Andrew Palermo4, Ceren Aydin5, Jing Lu5, Andrew Solovyov2, Shelia Yeh6, Sonjong Hwang7, David A. Dixon8, Bruce Gates5 and Alexander Katz2, (1)University of California, Berkeley, USA, (2)University of California Berkeley, USA, (3)University of California, Davis, USA, (4)University of California - Davis, USA, (5)University of California Davis, USA, (6)Chevron Energy Technology Company, USA, (7)California Institute of Technology, USA, (8)The University of Alabama, USA.

Keynote

We investigate the electronic effect of dioxygen ligands on hydrogenation catalysis involving the simplest of metal surfaces, using a well-defined silica-supported molecular cluster, which consists of a tetrairidium core.  Treatment of this catalyst in dioxygen increases the measured rate of ethylene hydrogenation by more than a factor of 100.

Extended Abstracts:

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