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Physical Condition of the Metal.—The more finely divided the metal the greater is its power of occluding hydrogen. This probably explains many of the apparently anomalous results detailed in the literature on the subject. Thus, for example, cobalt reduced from the bromide does not possess the property of occluding hydrogen to any important extent.6 The metal obtained, on the other hand, by reduction from its oxides contains varying amounts of the gas. Reduced at... 

In what Co/Pd-HFER reduction profile is concerned, palladium species are reduced from RT until 130 °C. This reduction process can be decomposed into 2 peaks, meaning that, besides the reduction of cationic Pd2+, the reduction of PdO also occurs at relatively low temperatures [14], At 200-250 °C a reduction process is detected in the bimetallic catalyst, currently assigned to the reduction of cobalt oxo-ions [9,15] reduction of Co304 takes place in the temperature range of 350-500 °C [11]. At higher... 

Much of the work on the photoreduction of carbon dioxide centres on the use of transition metal catalysts to produce formic acid and carbon monoxide. A large number of these catalysts are metalloporphyrins and phthalocyanines. These include cobalt porphyrins and iron porphyrins, in which the metal in the porphyrin is first of all photochemically reduced from M(ii) to M(o), the latter reacting rapidly with CO to produce formic acid and CO. ° Because the M(o) is oxidised in the process to M(ii) the process is catalytic with high percentage conversion rates. However, there is a problem with light energy conversion and the major issue of porphyrin stability. 

The formation of the triammino-salt indicates that two of the cobalt atoms are united with three molecules of ammonia, and the evolution of chlorine shows that one cobalt atom has been reduced from trivalent to divalent state. The reaction may be represented thus ... 

With the ligand dbp similar reactions yielded CoCl(dbp)3 and Co(dbp)4, but no Co(BH4)(dbp)3. Triphenyl-arsine and -stibine and CoCl2 were reduced to black products, probably cobalt metal. From NaBH3CN is afforded a Co(BH3CN)(Ph2-PCH2CH2PPh2) complex, but this does not subsequently yield a dinitrogen complex. 

Cobalt in an aqueous solution mixture was successfully determined. Even at zmol (10 21 mol) levels, cobalt could be extracted and determined. The calibration line showed good linearity and the determination limit obtained from 2a reached to 0.13 zmol, that is, 78 chelate molecules. More important, the analysis time was reduced from 2-3 h to only 50 s. This kind of drastic reduction in analysis time and device size, even for a complicated chemical procedure like this, anticipates future application to mobile advanced analytical equipment. 

By conducting the liquefaction In the presence of potassium carbonate, pyrlte or cobalt molybdate a remarkable Increase In the overall conversion and selectivity to oil was achieved while the viscosity of product oil was considerably lowered. The recycle characteristics of liquefied coal after nine recycles, when 80% of the start-up solvent was replaced with coal-derived oil, were quite acceptable. The viscosity of the recycled product oil remained remarkably low, and the sulfur level was reduced from 3.4 maf% In the starting coal to 0.22 wt7.. 

The nickel, cobalt, and zinc in the reduction end solution are precipitated as metal ammonium double salts after solution evaporation to 500 gm/liter ammonium sulfate. The double salts containing the nickel and cobalt centrifuged from the solution are then dissolved in water. Nickel and cobalt are separated by formation of cobaltic pentammine sulfate solution. The cobaltic pentammine solution is reduced at 350°F under hydrogen at 500 psig to produce cobalt powder. The ammonium sulfate by-product is prepared by stripping out the metal values with hydrogen sulfide. 

Figure 5 Is a histogram showing the distribution of pore volume vs. pore diameter for alumina carrier, fresh cobalt molybdenum catalyst and used cobalt molybdenum catalyst. There was a slight change In mode diameter when the carrier was loaded with about 20% active metal oxides. The pore volume was reduced from 0,60 to 0.53 ml/g. However, accumulation of about 17% coke during the processing of West Coast resld greatly shifted the mode downward and reduced the total pore volume from 0.53 to 0.30 ml/g. (All of these pore volumes have been normalized to 1.0 gram of alumina).

In the biosynthesis of the coenzymes derived from vitamin B 2. cobalt is reduced from a trivalent to a monovalent state before the organic anionic ligands are attached to the suuctuie. The two types of cobamide that participate as coenzymes in human metabolism are the adcnosylcobamides and the nKthylcobamides. These coenzymes perform vital functions in methylinalonate-succinate isomerization and in methylation of homocy.steine to methionine. 

The analogous results can also be seen from effect of benzoyl peroxide and cobalt naphthenate in Table 4. Although the amount of benzoyl peroxide was reduced from 1 to 0.87%, the tensile strength was increased because the amount of cobalt naphthenate was increased from 0.23 to 0.34%. 

One of the most striking features of CCT is the exceptionally fast rate at which it takes place. The molecular weight of a polymer can be reduced from tens of thousands to several hundred utilizing concentrations of cobalt catalyst as low as 100—300 ppm or 10 3 mol/L. The efficiency of catalysis can be measured as the ratio between the chain-transfer coefficients of the catalyzed reaction versus the noncatalyzed reaction. The chain-transfer constant to monomer, Cm, in MMA polymerization is believed to be approximately 2 x 10 5.29 The chain-transfer constant to catalyst, Cc, is as high as 103 for porphyrins and 104 for cobaloximes. Hence, improved efficiency of the catalyzed relative to the uncatalyzed reaction, CJCu, is 104/10 5 or 109. This value for the catalyst efficiency is comparable to many enzymatically catalyzed reactions whose efficiencies are in the range of 109—1011.18 The rate of hydrogen atom transfer for cobaloximes, the most active class of CCT catalysts to date, is so high that it is considered to be controlled by diffusion.5-30 32 Indeed, kc in this case is comparable to the termination rate constant.33... 

To further test this hypothesis freshly-reduced catalysts were reacted with high-pressure steam (5 atm). A significant loss of BET surface area (from 215 to 188 mVg) is observed after Co/Davisil was reduced at 1 atm and reacted with 5 atm steam for 24 h (see Table 3). Increasing the space velocity by a factor of four also increases the rate of BET surface area loss (from 12.5 % / 24 h to 39.0 % / 24 h). Extents of reduction of cobalt oxide to cobalt metal before and after steam treatment are shown in Table 3. After steam treatment the cobalt oxide-support interaction is apparently substantially increased, i.e., the fraction of cobalt reduced to the metal at 400°C decreases from 89 to 4% moreover, the amount of cobalt-silicates (as inferred from TPR spectra shown elsewhere [22, 23]) also increases after steam treatment. This latter observation is consistent with the substantially higher extent of reduction of these catalysts (71-72%) at 750 C, a temperature at which a significant fraction of cobalt silicate can be reduced to the metal. 

Most of the carbonyls can be prepared by the direct combination of the metal with carbon monoxide. It is necessary that the metal be in a very active state as when freshly reduced from the oxide or a salt of the metal. While finely divided, freshly reduced nickel combines readily with carbon monoxide at room temperature and atmospheric pressure (synthesis 75) other metals require more elevated temperatures (up to 400 ) and very high pressures (up to 700 atm.). Cobalt nitrosyl tricarbonyl is produced when specially prepared cobalt is treated with a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitric oxide. 

Variety of methods have been reported in literature for producing nickel and cobalt powders from different starting materials these include spray pyrolysis [5], ultrasonic spray pyrolysis under reduced atmosphere [6-10], wet chemical (reduction) methods [3,11], electrolysis [12,13] and controlled hydrothermal reduction of aqueous salt solutions of nickel and cobalt [14,15. Among these reported laboratory scale methods, aqueous processing routes such as hydrothermal, wet chemical and electrolysis processes seem economically and technically attractive because of their low temperature operation and control over particle characteristics through easy manipulation of process parameters including use of additives and/or surfactants [16,17]. 

Ion exchange was used to remove residual copper from the advance electrolyte prior to the recovery of cobalt as high-purity cathode. Aminophosphonic acid resins exhibit the selectivity sequence Ee(lll) > Pb > Cu > Zn A1 > Mg > Ca > Cd > Ni > Co > Sr > Ba > Na for metal cations, and are therefore suited to the removal of small quantities of copper and zinc from nickel or cobalt electrolytes. At Bulong, copper was reduced from 360 to <0.5 mg/1 (>99.8% removal) while limiting the associated cobalt loss to 0.4% (Pavlides and Wyethe 2000). 

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