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Progress and Understanding on Catalysts with Well-Defined Interface for Boosting CO
Conversion

Binran Zhao, Yiyi Zhao, Peng Liu, Yulong Men, Xinyu Meng and Yunxiang Pan*

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”.
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Tuning Solvent Composition to Enhance the Stability of Metal Clusters in Mass Spectrometry

Yingzi Han, Yihuang Jiang, Jing Jeanne Yang*, Shuichao Lin, Zichao Tang* and Lansun Zheng

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.



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