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- Volume 28
- Issue 3
- Jul 1984
- Pages 98-106
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Some Novel Electronic Effects in Hydrogenation Catalysis
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ACIDITY AND REDOX POTENTIAL
- J. W. Jenkins
- Platinum Metals Rev.,
- 1984,
- 28,
- (3),
- 98
Article Synopsis
Recent work at the Johnson Matthey Research Centre has thrown fresh light upon the electronic effects in hydrogenation catalysis that underlie the whole nature of the catalytic act and in particular many of the effects that may manifest themselves as support metal interactions. The results show that currently accepted models of the catalytic act are incomplete, that ionic intermediates are sometimes important and that both the relative acidity of the reaction system and the redox potential of products and intermediates must be considered.
