OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 1000, FI-02015 TKK http://www.tkk.fi Author Leif Backman Name of the dissertation Supported Cobalt Catalysts—Preparation, Characterisation and Reaction Studies Manuscript submitted Jan 23, 2009 Manuscript revised May 7, 2009 Date of the defence June 2, 2009 Monograph Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Faculty Fa...

Various studies suggest the involvement of nitrate reductase in gold nanoparticle synthesis from different bacterial sources. The present study focuses on the in silico characterization of four subunits namely alpha, beta, gamma and delta of respiratory nitrate reductase enzyme using online tools and softwares in Pseudomonas denitrificans .CodonW and CAIcal server are used to perform codon usag...

A series of non-precious metal electrocatalysts, namely pyrolyzed carbon-supported cobalt-polypyrrole, Co-PPy-TsOH/C, are synthesized with various cobalt precursors, including cobalt acetate, cobalt nitrate, cobalt oxalate, and cobalt chloride. The catalytic performance towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is comparatively investigated with electrochemical techniques of cyclic voltammogram, ...

A series of highly unsymmetric heterobinuclear Mn/Co complexes is reported, in which an organometallic CpMn(CO)z fragment and a classical Werner-type cobalt(II) subunit are arranged in close proximity by means of a bridging pyrazolate. Two ligand scaffolds are employed that differ by the chelate size of the tripodal tetradentate {N41 binding site for cobalt. Molecular structures of three comple...

[1] The geochemistry of cobalt in the Peru upwelling region is dominated by its importance as a micronutrient. A large and previously undocumented flux of labile cobalt behaved as a micronutrient with correlations with major nutrients (nitrate, phosphate; r = 0.90, 0.96) until depleted to 50 pM of strongly complexed cobalt. Co:P utilization ratios were an order of magnitude higher than in the N...

In this work, LiCoPO4 nanoparticles were synthesized by supercritical fluid method using cobalt nitrate hexahydrate (Co(NO3)2 6H2O) and cobalt acetate tetrahydrate (C4H6CoO4 4H2O) as starting materials. The effect of starting materials on particle morphology, size, and the crystalline phase were investigated. The as-synthesized samples were systematically characterized by XRD, TEM, STEM, EDS, B...

Reaction of cis-diazidobis(ethylenediamine)cobalt(III)nitrate with ammonium thiocyanate in a 1 : 2 molar ratio in aqueous medium gave the title cobalt(III) compound, cis-[Co(en)2(N3)2]SCN, as reddish brown crystals in almost quantitative yield. The complex salt was characterized by elemental analysis, IR, electronic, H and C NMR spectroscopic studies. An X-ray structure determination revealed a...

Experiments were conducted using a custom double-stirred tank reactor to determine the rate constants of reactions between nitric oxide (NO) and both pentaaminecobalt(II) and hexaaminecobalt(II) at temperatures of 298.2 and 303.2 K and pH levels between 8.50 and 9.87 under atmospheric pressure. The NO concentration of simulated flue gas stream ranged from 400 to 1400 ppmv. Ammoniacal cobalt(II)...

Treatment of [UO(2)(Ar(2)nacnac)Cl](2) with 4 equiv. of Li(C(4)H(5)N(2)) results in the formation of a rare uranyl organometallic complex [Li(MeIm)][UO(μ-O)(Ar(2)nacnac)(μ-C,N-C(4)H(5)N(2))(2)] (2), in moderate yield. Reaction of 2 with 1 equiv. of MCl(2) (M = Fe, Co) yields the bimetallic complexes [MCl(MeIm)][UO(2)(Ar(2)nacnac)(μ-N,C-C(4)H(5)N(2))(2)] (M = Fe, 3; M = Co, 4).

The title complex, [CoNa(CO5P)(H2O)5]n, was obtained by reacting sodium phosphono-formate with cobalt nitrate. The complex contains cobalt(II) and sodium ions, which are bridged by the O atoms of two aqua ligands. The Co(II) ion is octahedrally coordinated by three phosphonoformato ligands (one bi- and the other monodentate) and by two O atoms from the bridging aqua ligands. The sodium cation i...