In the cover picture, we adapt
the ideal from "Journey to the West," one of Chinese four literary
classics. The ancient Chinese mythical character, Monkey King, holds a treasure
in his hand, which represents the catalysts with well-defined interface. CO2 is blown out from the mouth of Monkey King, then goes through the catalyst
interface, and finally is converted into high value-added chemicals like CH4,
CH3OH and CO. This well describes the focus of our paper titled “Progress
and Understanding on Catalysts with Well-defined Interface for Boosting CO2 Conversion”.
Chin. J. Struct. Chem. 2022, 41, 2204034-2204039 DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2022-0032
April 8, 2022
metal cluster, mass
spectrometry, fragmentation, stability, hydrogen bond
ABSTRACT
Electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (ESI-TOF-MS) has been recognized as a powerful technique for studying metal clusters’
chemical composition and reaction mechanisms. It is a great challenge in mass
spectrometry analysis to maintain the metal cluster molecules intact without fragmentation, which is achieved in this work by using mixed solvents
to change the interaction between cluster molecules and solvent molecules,
further affecting the fragmentation behaviors of the metal cluster in MS.
Theoretical analysis reveals that the stability of the [(C)Au6Ag2(C18H14ONP)6]4+ cluster in ESI-TOF-MS is related to the strength of the chemical bonds between
its own atoms and the bonding between the solvent and the cluster molecules.