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US 2023/0211329 A1Published application
Metal-Oxo Clusters Comprising Noble Metals and Metal Cluster Units Thereof
OwnerUlrich Kortz, Saurav Bhattacharya +1inventors
InventorsUlrich Kortz, Saurav Bhattacharya, Ali S. Mougharbel
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Abstract
The invention relates to noble metal-oxo clusters represented by the formula [Ms(R2XO2)z(OR′)xOyX′q] or solvates thereof, corresponding supported noble metal-oxo clusters, and processes for their preparation, as well as corresponding metal cluster units, optionally in the form of a dispersion in a liquid carrier medium or immobilized on a solid support, and processes for their preparation, as well as their use in conversion of organic substrate.
Claims22
-18. (canceled)
A noble metal-oxo cluster represented by the formula
- [Ms(R2XO2)z(OR′)xOyX′q]
- or solvates thereof, wherein:
- each M is independently selected from the group consisting of Pd, Pt, Rh, Ir, Ag and Au, and each M has d8 valence electron configuration,
- each R is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl, wherein each hydrocarbyl provides a carbon atom for coordination to X,
- each X is independently selected from the group consisting of P and As,
- each R′ is independently selected from the group consisting of a proton or a monovalent cation,
- each X′ is independently selected from the group consisting of monovalent anions,
- s is a number from 8 to 96,
- z is a number from 8 to 96,
- x is a number from 2 to 48,
- y is a number from 2 to 48, and
- q is a number from 0 to 46,
- with the proviso that x+q≤48.
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A metal cluster unit of the formula
- [M0s],
- wherein:
- each M0 is independently selected from the group consisting of Pd0, Pt0, Rh0, Ir0, Ag0, and Au0, and
- s is a number from 8 to 96.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.