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Zeying Cai1, Meizhuang Liu1, Limin She1

  • 1School of Physics and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University, Xingang Xi Road 135, 510275 Guangzhou (China).

Chemphyschem : a European Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry
|March 11, 2015
PubMed
Summary

Substrate material dictates alkane C-C bond chemistry on metal surfaces. Gold surfaces promote alkane polymerization, while platinum surfaces lead to fragmentation via pyrolysis.

Keywords:
CC couplingCC dissociationalkanesdensity functional calculationsscanning probe microscopy

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