Platinum clusters cyclohexane

Chemisorption of cyclohexane, n-hexane, and 2,3-dimethylbutane on small platinum clusters has been reported to be quite facile. These species also readily exhibit sequential reactions. Even the platinum atom forms a di-addition product with cyclohexane. The first report of this reaction utilized high-fluence 6.42-eV photons to ionize the reaction products. The resultant mass spectra showed extensive hydrogen loss, and a C H ratio near 1 was found for most product ions (Fig. 2 in Trevor et al. ). As discussed above, extensive hydrogen loss may be due to laser cooking during ionization. More recent experiments, which utilized low-fluence 7.87-eV ionizing pho-... 

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