This Catalysis Science & Technology Hot paper looks at how species like ethylidyne, ethyne, vinylidene and ethane are formed during ethene hydrogenation on iridium clusters.
The authors look at the structure and stability of the bare and hydrogenated iridium tetramers involved in the process.
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Interaction of ethene and ethyne with bare and hydrogenated Ir4 clusters. A density functional study
Galina P. Petrova, Georgi N. Vayssilov and Notker Rösch
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00114K
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