Kistler, Joseph D.; Serna Merino, Pedro Manuel; Gates, Bruce C.(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013)
[EN] A family of supported bimetallic samples was prepared by the reactions of Rh(C2H4)(acac) (acac = acetylacetonate) and Os-3(CO)(12) with MgO. The samples were characterized by infrared and extended X-ray absorption ...
Lu, Jing; Serna Merino, Pedro Manuel; Aydin, Ceren; Browning, Nigel D.; Gates, Bruce C.(American Chemical Society, 2011-08)
[EN] The performance of a supported catalyst is influenced by the size and structure of the metal species, the ligands bonded to the metal, and the support. Resolution of these effects has been lacking because of the lack ...
Yardimci, Dicle; Serna Merino, Pedro Manuel; Gates, Bruce C.(Wiley, 2013-01)
[EN] The preparation of dinuclear rhodium clusters and their use as catalysts is challenging because these clusters are unstable, evolving readily into species with higher nuclearities. We now present a novel synthetic ...
Yardimce, Dicle; Serna Merino, Pedro Manuel; Gates, Bruce C.(American Chemical Society, 2012)
[EN] Regulation of the catalytic selectivity of rhodium for the industrially important hydrogenation of 1,3-butadiene to n-butenes has been achieved by controlling the structure of essentially molecular rhodium species ...
Lu, Jing; Serna Merino, Pedro Manuel; Gates, Bruce C.(American Chemical Society, 2011)
[EN] Zeolite- and MgO-supported mononuclear iridium diethene complexes were formed by the reaction of Ir(C2H4)2(acac) (acac = acetylacetonate, C5H7O2¿) with each support. Changes in the ligand environment of the supported ...
Serna Merino, Pedro Manuel; Gates, Bruce C.(Elsevier, 2013-12)
[EN] Essentially molecular rhodium catalysts were made from Rh(C2R4)(2)(acetylacetonate) on zeolite HY and on MgO and characterized by infrared and X-ray absorption spectroscopies. The supported rhodium species anchored ...