Issue 46, 2015

Immobilised molecular catalysts and the role of the supporting metal substrate

Abstract

This work demonstrates that immobilising molecular catalysts on metal substrates can attenuate their reactivity. In particular, the reactivity towards molecular oxygen of both ruthenium tetraphenyl porphyrin (Ru-TPP) and its Ti analogue (Ti-TPP) on Ag(111) was studied as benchmark for the interaction strength of such metal–organic complexes with possible reactants. Here, Ru-TPP proves to be completely unreactive and Ti-TPP strongly reactive towards molecular oxygen; along with comparison to work in the literature, this suggests that studies into immobilised catalysts might find fruition in considering species traditionally seen as too strongly interacting.

Graphical abstract: Immobilised molecular catalysts and the role of the supporting metal substrate

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 Feb 2015
Accepted
18 Apr 2015
First published
27 Apr 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 9483-9486

Author version available

Immobilised molecular catalysts and the role of the supporting metal substrate

D. A. Duncan, P. S. Deimel, A. Wiengarten, R. Han, R. G. Acres, W. Auwärter, P. Feulner, A. C. Papageorgiou, F. Allegretti and J. V. Barth, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 9483 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC01639H

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