Vacuum Ultraviolet Photoionization Studies of PtCH2 and H-Pt-CH3: A Potential Energy Surface for the Pt + CH4 Reaction

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1-1-2013

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The copyright of this article is owned by Wiley VCH (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201207931).

Abstract

Does Charge Matter? Direct vacuum UV measurement of ionization energies reveals that C–H insertion by Pt to form H-Pt-CH3 is highly exoergic, while production of PtCH2+H2 is slightly endoergic. Experiments and spin-orbit DFT calculations reveal surprisingly similar energetics for dehydrogenation of methane by neutral and cationic platinum. Red lines in the picture indicate experimentally determined energies.

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Chemistry

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