Sulfur, normally a poison, strongly promotes chemoselective catalytic hydrogenation: stereochemistry and reactivity of crotonaldehyde on clean and S-modified Cu(111).

ME Chiu; G Kyriakou; FJ Williams; DJ Watson; MS Tikhov; RM Lambert

doi:10.1039/b517154g

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Sulfur, normally a poison, strongly promotes chemoselective catalytic hydrogenation: stereochemistry and reactivity of crotonaldehyde on clean and S-modified Cu(111).

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Sulfur, normally a poison, strongly promotes chemoselective catalytic hydrogenation: stereochemistry and reactivity of crotonaldehyde on clean and S-modified Cu(111).

ME Chiu, G Kyriakou, FJ Williams, DJ Watson, MS Tikhov and RM Lambert

Chem Commun (Camb), (12), pp.1283-1285

28/03/2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/b517154g

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Aldehydes

Catalysis

Copper

Hydrogenation

Stereoisomerism

Sulfur

Surface Properties

Sulfur adatoms strongly activate the otherwise inert Cu(111) surface towards chemoselective hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde by electronically perturbing and strongly tilting the reactant.

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Title: Sulfur, normally a poison, strongly promotes chemoselective catalytic hydrogenation: stereochemistry and reactivity of crotonaldehyde on clean and S-modified Cu(111).
Creators: ME Chiu
G Kyriakou
FJ Williams
DJ Watson
MS Tikhov
RM Lambert
Publication Details: Chem Commun (Camb), (12), pp.1283-1285
Date published: 28/03/2006
Date submitted: 09/08/2013
Identifiers: 99511917902346
Academic Unit: University of Surrey
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Sulfur, normally a poison, strongly promotes chemoselective catalytic hydrogenation: stereochemistry and reactivity of crotonaldehyde on clean and S-modified Cu(111).

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