title: Toward less dependence on platinum group metal catalysts: the merits of utilizing tin.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the USC Nanocenter, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA. adams@mail.chem.sc.edu
authors.forename: Richard D
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authors.lastname: Adams
authors.forename: Douglas A
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authors.lastname: Blom
authors.forename: Burjor
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authors.lastname: Captain
authors.forename: Robert
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authors.lastname: Raja
authors.forename: John Meurig
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authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Eszter
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authors.lastname: Trufan