Adams Richard D, Blom Douglas A, Captain Burjor, Raja Robert, Thomas John Meurig, Trufan Eszter
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the USC Nanocenter, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
Langmuir. 2008 Sep 2;24(17):9223-6. doi: 10.1021/la801759d. Epub 2008 Aug 9.
Minute stoichiometric bimetallic clusters rich in tin (PtSn 2, RhSn 2, and RuSn 2) are powerful selective hydrogenation catalysts: these "molecular metallic" entities, supported on mesoporous silica and characterized by aberration-corrected electron microscopy, yield high percentages of cyclododecene (CDE) at fractional conversions ranging from 0.45 to 0.70 of the parent cyclododecatriene (CDT) at modest temperatures and under solvent-free conditions.
