A recent PCCP paper on CO bond cleavage has been featured as an Editors’ Choice in Science.
The paper by Graham Hutchings, Albert Carley and colleagues at Cardiff University, UK have pinpointed the moment that the CO bond, the strongest bond of any diatomic molecule, breaks when oxidised by a gold catalyst.
Read the PCCP paper:
CO bond cleavage on supported nano-gold during low temperature oxidation
Albert F. Carley, David J. Morgan, Nianxue Song, M. Wyn Roberts, Stuart H. Taylor, Jonathan K. Bartley, David J. Willock, Kara L. Howard and Graham J. Hutchings
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/c0cp01852j
View the Chemistry World article:
Breaking news for the CO bond
The strongest diatomic bond, CO, is broken by oxidation
