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Another way to produce acetic acid is based on a carbonylation of methanol in the so called Monsanto process, which is the dominant technology for the production of acetic acid today [15]. Acetic acid then is converted to VAM by addition of ethylene to acetic acid in the gas phase using heterogeneous catalysts usually based on palladium, cadmium, gold and its alloys (vinylation reaction 3 in Fig. 2) [16] supported on silica structures. 

A wide range of metals have been used to obtain surface enhancement lithium, palladium, cadmium, and nickel, however, the most commonly used are silver [4, 7, 18], gold [19-22], and copper [23, 24] since they tend to give the largest enhancement in signal and have surface plasmons which lie in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum which coincide with the commonly used Raman excitation frequencies. 

Figure 11. (a) The conduction gap observed in small clusters of gold, palladium, cadmium, and silver as a function of cluster volume, (b) Normalized slope of the /-K curves (the conductance) as a fraction of cluster volume for the four metals studied. Above a critical volume of ca 4nm the slope becomes size-independent. This is possibly a direct indication of a size-induced-metal-insulator transition, as indicated. Taken from Vinod et a/. ... 

Steele, M. and Maciver, B., Palladium/cadmium-sulflde Schottky diodes for hydrogen detection AppZ. Phys. Lett., 1976,28,687-8. 

Yao, W., C. Huang, N. Muradov, and A. T-Raissi. 2009. Cr203 loading effects on the photocatalytic activity of palladium/cadmium sulfide photocatalyst. Pap>er presented at the Proceedings of Energy Sustainability 2009, San Francisco, CA, July 19-23. 

Steele, M. C., Hile, J. W. Maclver, B. A. (1976). Hydrogen-sensitive palladium gate MOS capacitors.. Appl. Phys., Vol. 47, pp. 2537-2538 Steele, M. C. Maclver, B. A. (1976). Palladium/cadmium-sulfide Schottky diodes for hydrogen detection. AppL Phys. Lett., Vol. 28, pp. 687-688... 

Vinyl acetate (ethenyl acetate) is produced in the vapor-phase reaction at 180—200°C of acetylene and acetic acid over a cadmium, 2inc, or mercury acetate catalyst. However, the palladium-cataly2ed reaction of ethylene and acetic acid has displaced most of the commercial acetylene-based units (see Acetylene-DERIVED chemicals Vinyl polymers). Current production is dependent on the use of low cost by-product acetylene from ethylene plants or from low cost hydrocarbon feeds. 

Some metals used as metallic coatings are considered nontoxic, such as aluminum, magnesium, iron, tin, indium, molybdenum, tungsten, titanium, tantalum, niobium, bismuth, and the precious metals such as gold, platinum, rhodium, and palladium. However, some of the most important poUutants are metallic contaminants of these metals. Metals that can be bioconcentrated to harmful levels, especially in predators at the top of the food chain, such as mercury, cadmium, and lead are especially problematic. Other metals such as silver, copper, nickel, zinc, and chromium in the hexavalent oxidation state are highly toxic to aquatic Hfe (37,57—60). 

Aqueous Electrodeposition. The theory of electro deposition is well known (see Electroplating). Of the numerous metals used in electro deposition, only 10 have been reduced to large-scale commercial practice. The most commonly plated metals are chromium, nickel, copper, zinc, rhodium, silver, cadmium, tin, and gold, followed by the less frequendy plated metals iron, cesium, platinum, and palladium, and the infrequendy plated metals indium, mthenium, and rhenium. Of these, only platinum, rhodium, iddium, and rhenium are refractory. 

Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zircomum Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium indium Tin Antimony IJtunum Iodine Xenon... 

The chemistry of vinyl acetate synthesis from the gas-phase oxidative coupling of acetic acid with ethylene has been shown to be facilitated by many co-catalysts. Since the inception of the ethylene-based homogeneous liquid-phase process by Moiseev et al. (1960), the active c ytic species in both the liquid and gas-phase process has always been seen to be some form of palladium acetate [Nakamura et al, 1971 Augustine and Blitz, 1993]. Many co-catalysts which help to enhance the productivity or selectivity of the catalyst have appeared in the literature over the years. The most notable promoters being gold (Au) [Sennewald et al., 1971 Bissot, 1977], cadmium acetate (Cd(OAc)j) [Hoechst, 1967], and potassium acetate (KOAc) [Sennewald et al., 1971 Bissot, 1977]. 

In their electrochemical surface properties, a number of metals (lead, tin, cadmium, and others) resemble mercury, whereas other metals of the platinum group resemble platinum itself. Within each of these groups, trends in the behavior observed coincide qualitatively, sometimes even semiquantitatively. Some of the differences between mercury and other. y- or p-metals are due to their solid state. Among the platinum group metals, palladium is exceptional, since strong bulk absorption of hydrogen is observed here in addition to surface adsorption, an effect that makes it difficult to study the surface itself. 

Fievet et al. [225] have prepared and isolated metallic nanopowders of gold, palladium, iridium, osmium, copper, silver, nickel, cobalt, lead, and cadmium via polyol... 

IH of alkynylamines has been performed with a variety of catalytic systems based on palladium [274-281], cobalt, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, platinum, copper, silver, zinc, cadmium, mercury [279-281], nickel [279-282], gold [279-281, 283], and molybdenum [284] derivatives. 

This volume is concerned with fundamental developments in the coordination chemistry of the elements of Groups 9-12 since 1982. The individual chapters cover the coordination chemistry of cobalt, iridium, nickel, palladium, platinum, copper, silver and gold, zinc and cadmium, and mercury. Unfortunately, because of factors beyond the Editors control, the manuscript for the proposed chapter on rhodium was not available in time for publication. 

Zhuang et al. [664] used palladium salts as a coprecipitation carrier for the concentration of cadmium, cobalt, and lead in seawater prior to analysis by atomic absorption spectrometry. 

In addition, a number of other deep level impurities have been hydrogen passivated. They include nickel, cadmium, tellurium, zirconium, titanium, chromium, and cobalt (Pearton et al., 1987). Most of these studies have been qualitative, and important work remains to be done if the hydrogenation of these and most probably additional impurities, such as gold, palladium, platinum and iron, is to be fully understood. 

Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon... 

Antimony, arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, calcium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gold, indium, iridium, iron, lead, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, nickel, palladium, platinum, potassium, rhodium, rubidium, ruthenium, selenium, silver, sodium, tellurium, thallium, zinc... 

The most important factor in electrolytic reduction (electroreduction) is the nature of the metal used as a cathode. Metals of low overvoltage - platinum (0.005-0.09 V), palladium, nickel and iron - give generally similar results of reduction as does catalytic hydrogenation [727]. Cathodes made of metals of high overvoltage such as copper (0.23 V), cadmium (0.48 V), lead (0.64 V), zinc (0.70 V) or mercury (0.78 V) produce similar results to those of dissolving metal reductions. 

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