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The Raney nickel is a very efficient catalyst for the dehydrogenation of 2-butanol into butanone (Scheme 45) with a good selectivity (90%). But, for industrial applications selectivities as high as 99% are required. This can be achieved by poisoning some sites by reaction with Bu4Sn (the best results are obtained with a Sn/Ni ratio of 0.02), which probably occurs first on the sites responsible for the side reactions. The consequence is a slight decrease of the catalytic activity and an increase of the selectivity in 2-butanone which can reach 99%. This catalyst, developed by IFF, has been used commercially in Japan for several years [180]. 

In conclusion, therefore, at least for metal catalysts it will not be justihed to identify crystallographic defects emerging at the electrode surface with the active sites responsible for the catalytic activity of the electrode as a whole. 

Furthermore, ir-arene complexes of transition metals are seldom formed by the direct reaction of benzene with metal complexes. More usually, the syntheses require the formation of (often unstable) metal aryl complexes and these are then converted to ir-arene complexes. The analogous formation of w-adsorbed benzene at a metal surface via the initial formation of ff-adsorbcd phenyl, merits more consideration than it has yet been given. It is to be hoped that the recognition and study of structure-sensitive reactions will allow more exact definition of the sites responsible for catalytic activity at metal surfaces. The reactions of benzene, using suitably labeled materials, may prove to be useful probes for such studies. 

According to the results of Ben Taarit and co-workers (76) and Neikam (77) Ce(III) Y zeolites will not form anthracene cation radicals but upon oxidation to Ce(IV) the radicals are readily formed. This experiment suggests that one role of oxygen during calcination may be to oxidize certain cations. The surface may be oxidized by molecules other than oxygen since the chlorination of 7-alumina by carbon tetrachloride considerably increases the sites responsible for the acceptor character. These sites, which oxidize perylene into the paramagnetic radical ion, have been attributed to biocoordinated positive aluminum atoms (78). 

NO is then reduced to N2 and mild oxygenated species are completely oxidised to C02, by reacting with the adsorbed oxygen species left during the NO reducing process, so regenerating the active sites responsible for the deNOx process ... 

For the development of a selectivity model it is helpful to have a picture of the surface of the catalyst to ht the explanation of how the product spectrum is formed. The fundamental question regarding the nature of the active phase for the FT and water-gas shift (WGS) reactions is still a controversial and complex topic that has not been resolved.8 Two very popular models to describe the correlations between carbide phase and activity are the carbide9 and competition models.10 There are also proposals that magnetite and metallic iron are both active for the FT reaction and carbides are not active11. These proposals will not be discussed in detail and are only mentioned to highlight the uncertainty that is still present on the exact phase or active site responsible for the FT and WGS reactions. 

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As described in Section 3.2.3, the use of acidic supports such as A1203 favors the dehydration of ethanol to ethylene, which leads to a severe carbon deposition.66,76,78,85 Reactions with lower H20/ethanol ratio can also favor several side reactions mentioned above and result in carbon deposition on the catalyst surface. Possible strategies to reduce the carbon deposition include (i) neutralization of acidic sites responsible for ethanol dehydration to ethylene and/or modification of the support nature, including less acidic oxides or redox oxides, (ii) use of a feed containing higher H20/ethanol molar ratio, and (iii) addition of a small concentration of air or 02 in the feed. 

The site responsible for CH30 formation can be identified with the use of CO as a probe molecule. As increasing amounts of sulfur are added to Ni(100), the desorption state characteristic of CO on the clean surface disappears, and two new states appear at 315 and 380 K, respectively. These states persist from about 0g - 0.15 to 0gO. 46 (see Figure 5). In this coverage range one sulfur atom blocks adsorption of one CO molecule (15). 

It is noteworthy that surface carbon did not come from those CO molecules responsible for the HT peak but from sites that are able to disproportionate CO and correspond to the LT peak. Because the latter sites are important only on quite small particles, it is tempting to associate them with low coordination number surface metal atoms, the relative concentration of which increases rapidly as the particle size decreases below 2 nm (8). Thus, these atoms may be the sites responsible for the relatively weakly adsorbed state of CO. Results similar to our work were found on other Group VIII metals. In the case of a Ru/Si02 sample, Yamasaki et al. (9) have shown by infrared spectroscopy that the deposition of carbon occurs rapidly by CO disproportionation on the sites for weakly held CO. The disproportionation also occurred on a Rh/Al20 sample with 66% metal exposed so that appreciable concentrations of low coordination atoms are expected (10). 

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The carboxy-terminal region in apolipoprotein (a) closely resembles the protease domain in plasminogen [eight amino acid substitutions, nine amino acid deletions, and one insertion in apo(a) relative to plasminogen, with 94% overall nucleotide sequence identity] (G28). The most important difference is the substitution of arginine by serine in the site responsible for proteolytic activity (position 4308) (G28). As a result, Lp(a) has no protease activity towards substrates for plasmin (J3). Salonen (SI) reported a serine-protease activity of Lp(a) towards fibronectin, a glycoprotein present in connective tissue matrices. 

The present discussion is only concerned with the structure/redox capacity of the site responsible for the oxidation of water. The starting point is the evidence that the photosynthetic pathway is triggered by photooxidation of the chlorophylls in photosystem II. The need for chlorophylls to recover the electrons lost in photooxidation (in order to regenerate their ability to absorb light) induces water to undergo oxidation, according to ... 

Figure 38 Structural models of the manganese complex which constitutes the active site responsible for the water oxidation in WOC...

Chapter 12, Section 2). It is generally accepted that the site responsible for the oxidation of dihydrogen and the reduction of protons is the nickel-containing assembly, possibly exploiting its capacity to shuttle between the multiple oxidation states Ni(III)/Ni(II)/Ni(I)/Ni(0). 

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