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

May E. Chiu,Georgios Kyriakou,Federico J. Williams,David J. Watson,Mintcho S. Tikhov,Richard M. Lambert

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

2006

May E. Chiu
Georgios Kyriakou
Federico J. Williams
David J. Watson
Mintcho S. Tikhov
Richard M. Lambert

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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Inert
Stereochemistry
Crotonaldehyde
Catalysis
Inorganic chemistry
Sulfur
Chemistry
Organic chemistry
Photochemistry
catalytic hydrogenation

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