Ruthenium clusters with boron

Au-B bonds are also present in metal clusters with intersticial or peripheral boron atoms. An example is the cluster [Fe4(CO)12BH(AuPPh3)2], which was prepared by reaction of [AuCl(PPh3)] with the carbonyl iron dihydride. With the oxonium salt the reaction proceeds to the trinuclear gold derivative [Fe4(CO)12B(AuPPh3)3] (357).2063-2070 The ruthenium analogues and complexes with other ligands have been also synthesized as, for example, (358).2071-2079... 

A complex nanostructured catalyst for ammonia synthesis consists of ruthenium nanoclusters dispersed on a boron nitride support (Ru/BN) with barium added as a promoter (33). It was observed that the introduction of barium promoters results in an increase of the catalytic activity by 2—3 orders of magnitude. The multi-phase catalyst was first investigated by means of conventional HRTEM, but this technique did not succeed in identifying a barium-rich phase (34). It was even difficult to determine how the catalyst could be active, because the ruthenium clusters were encapsulated by layers of the boron nitride support. By HRTEM imaging of the catalyst during exposure to ammonia synthesis conditions, it was found that the... 

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