Article: New findings reported from Shandong University describe advances in physical chemistry.

"By carrying out density functional theory calculations, we studied the CO oxidation promoted by cationic, neutral, and anionic Au trimers, which represent the prototypes of Au-cluster-based catalysts with different charge states. The reaction is explored along three possible pathways: one involves the reaction of the initial complexes between Au trimers and O-2 with CO; another is related to O-2 interacting with the complexes between ALL trimers and CO; and the third refers to a self-promoting mechanism; that is, the second CO oxidation is promoted by a preadsorbed CO molecule," investigators in Jinan, People's Republic of China report.

"The theoretical results ...

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