Silicon complexes with rhenium

Advance has been made on the electrocatalyhc side, as well rhenium patterns were optimised in conjunction with silicon photoelectrodes, such that they provide greater catalyhc current and improved stability. Copper complexes capable of absorbing afmospheric CO2 have been incorporafed info an electrocatalytic cycle, and, as if was shown in Sechon 1.4.3.1 in mechanisfic details, metal-free electrocafalysis of CO2 to mefhanol was achieved wifh pyridinium ions [165]. 

Silicon and germanium hydrides react with cobalt, manganese and rhenium carbonyls affording complexes having a silicon (or germanium)-metal bond. These reactions, described previously for inactive compounds have been used in the synthesis of optically active silyl and germyl-transition metals ... 

Another simple means of creating ions is a surface ionization source. This works effectively for species having low ionization energies, which in this work include atomic silicon and atomic transition metals. Typically, a rhenium filament resistively heated to about 2200 K is used. Silane or the vapors of a transition metal complex or salt are directed at the filament, where decomposition and ionization occur. It is generally believed that the electronic state distribution of the ions formed is in equilibrium at the filament temperature. This generally produces ground-state ions, e.g., exclusively Si+( P), with a distribution of spin-orbit levels associated with the filament temperature. 

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