Communications Chemistry (Jan 2022)

Ordering a rhenium catalyst on Ag(001) through molecule-surface step interaction

  • Ole Bunjes,
  • Lucas A. Paul,
  • Xinyue Dai,
  • Hongyan Jiang,
  • Tobias Claus,
  • Alexandra Rittmeier,
  • Dirk Schwarzer,
  • Feng Ding,
  • Inke Siewert,
  • Martin Wenderoth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-021-00617-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Catalytically active complexes adsorbed to noble metal surfaces hold potential for CO2 utilisation. Here, the mechanism of growth of fac-Re(bpy)(CO)3Cl on Ag(001) is shown to begin at well-oriented surface steps, with surface restructuring promoting the growth of long-range ordered assemblies.