Clusters zinc/oxygen

In order to model the processes of cluster formation in a gas phase at a surplus of zinc vapour we carried out the effusion of zinc vapour in the oxygen atmosphere. There is the nucleation and the growth of the symmetric... 

Hence, we suggest the following model of Zn O nucleus-clusters. The nucleus-cluster has the shape of the truncated tetrahedron with 12 atoms of zinc and one atom of oxygen in the center (inset of Fig. 1). Such nucleus-cluster is a loosely coupled system formed by an atom of oxygen and 12 equidistant atoms of zinc. Scattering in zinc vapor at increased partial pressure of oxygen, facilitates the nucleation and growth of (OOOl)ZnO whiskers on four facets of the Zn O cluster occurs. 

The selective production of methanol and of ethanol by carbon monoxide hydrogenation involving pyrolysed rhodium carbonyl clusters supported on basic or amphoteric oxides, respectively, has been discussed. The nature of the support clearly plays the major role in influencing the ratio of oxygenated products to hydrocarbon products, whereas the nuclearity and charge of the starting rhodium cluster compound are of minor importance. Ichikawa has now extended this work to a study of (CO 4- Hj) reactions in the presence of alkenes and to reactions over catalysts derived from platinum and iridium clusters. Rhodium, bimetallic Rh-Co, and cobalt carbonyl clusters supported on zinc oxide and other basic oxides are active catalysts for the hydro-formylation of ethene and propene at one atm and 90-180°C. Various rhodium carbonyl cluster precursors have been used catalytic activities at about 160vary in the order Rh4(CO)i2 > Rh6(CO)ig > [Rh7(CO)i6] >... 

A wide range of metal ions is present in metalloenzymes as cofactors. Copper zinc snperoxide dismntase is a metalloenzyme that nses copper and zinc to help catalyze the conversion of snperoxide anion to molecnlar oxygen and hydrogen peroxide. Thermolysin is a protease that nses a tightly bonnd zinc ion to activate a water atom, which then attacks a peptide bond. Aconitase is one of the enzymes of the citric acid cycle it contains several iron atoms bonnd in the form of iron-sulfur clusters, which participate directly in the isomerization of citrate to isocitrate. Other metal ions fonnd as cofactors in metalloenzymes include molybdenum (in nitrate rednctase), seleninm (in glutathione peroxidase), nickel (in urease), and vanadinm (in fungal chloroperoxidase). see also Catalysis and Catalysts Coenzymes Denaturation Enzymes Krebs Cycle. 

An intervalence electron-transfer band, not present in the Fe analogue, was observed in the room temperature electronic spectrum at 13 800cm . Mossbauer spectra indicated distinct Fe" and Fe " sites at 17K while at 300 K a single absorption was observed. The thermal barrier to electron transfer in the trimer was estimated as about 470 cm. Triiron clusters of this type, in the presence of zinc powder, acetic acid, aqueous pyridine and oxygen, are reported " to effect the oxidation of saturated hydrocarbons. The exchange interactions in the series of complexes [Fe2 M 0(02 CMe)spyj] py (M = Mg, Mn, Co, Ni or Zn) which, M = Ni excepted, are isomorphous with the mixed valence complex referred to above have been measured. 

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