Role of oxygen transients in the facile scission of C–O bonds of alcohols on Zn surfaces

Harikumar, K. R. ; Rao, C. N. R. (1999) Role of oxygen transients in the facile scission of C–O bonds of alcohols on Zn surfaces Chemical Communications (4). pp. 341-342. ISSN 1359-7345

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Abstract

The alkoxy species produced by the interaction of alcohols with Zn surfaces undergoes C–O bond scission at 150 K giving hydrocarbon species, but this transformation occurs even at 80 K when alcohol–oxygen mixtures are coadsorbed, due to the oxygen transients.

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