Tungsten high-temperature routes

The application of ly transition metal carbides as effective substitutes for the more expensive noble metals in a variety of reactions has hem demonstrated in several studies [ 1 -2]. Conventional pr aration route via high temperature (>1200K) oxide carburization using methane is, however, poorly understood. This study deals with the synthesis of supported tungsten carbide nanoparticles via the relatively low-tempoatine propane carburization of the precursor metal sulphide, hi order to optimize the carbide catalyst propertira at the molecular level, we have undertaken a detailed examination of hotii solid-state carburization conditions and gas phase kinetics so as to understand the connectivity between plmse kinetic parametera and catalytically-important intrinsic attributes of the nanoparticle catalyst system. 

Photochemistry has long been a synthesis tool of organometallic chemists given that electronic excitation can surmount enthalpy barriers which might otherwise require undesirably high temperatures. One such example is the common synthetic route to tungsten pentacarbonyl derivatives W(CO)5L indicated by eqs. 2 and 3 ... 

Molybdenum and tungsten atoms seem to react with alkylbenzenes more efficiently than chromium atoms yields of 30 to 50% are reported (113). Conventional routes to the synthesis of tungsten-arene complexes are difficult and inefficient so that the ability to prepare these compounds in high yield via tungsten atoms is of special significance. Unfortunately, tungsten has a very high vaporization temperature and the scale of work with its vapor is necessarily limited. 

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