Stabilizing Metal-Oxo Catalysts

摘要

Metallic platinum has long been known to be an excellent catalyst for oxidations of organic compounds.However,further improving the reactivity of platinum in catalytic materials including fuel cell electrodes and/or using less platinum in these systems remains a goal of both fundamental and practical importance.In context with better understanding of platinum-oxygen interactions and reactivity,the first platlnum-oxo complex has been prepared and characterized by a team spearheaded by Craig Hill at Emory Univ.(Atlanta,GA; www.emory.edu).