Reactivity of Organometallic Compounds with Metallic Surfaces

Reactivity of Organometallic Compounds with Metallic Surfaces 

However, by judicious choice of reaction conditions, it is possible to obtain for a given metal a single and well-defined environment for tin, allowing it to be fully characterized by physicochemical methods and above-all by EXAFS. 

Naked tin adatoms have also been obtained on a Pt/Si02 catalyst but, to remove all the butyl ligands the grafted organotin complex was further heated at 300 °C. In agreement with the gas evolution of four butane equivalents per tin. 

The process of using organometallic compounds to prepare bimetallic particles is quite general, and we will review below the chemistry of organometallics reagents with metal surfaces, which are limited so far mainly to group VIII metals. 

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