1 College of Environmental Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People’s Republic of China 2 Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for Three Gorges Reservoir Area Ecological Environment, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, People’s Republic of China 3 The State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Scien...

EXAFS measurements have been carried out on very small osmium and rhenium metal particles supported on MgO. The metal particles were formed via decornposition and subsequent reduction in hydrogen of metal carbonyl clusters.

Many previous structural studies of molecular adsorbates on metal surfaces indicate that the local coordination and bonding is closely similar to that in organometallic compounds, implying that the metallic substrate has no significant influence. Here we show that such an influence is detectable for one model system, namely, the formate species, HCOO, adsorbed on the atomically rough and smooth...

Organometallic complexes have unique physico-chemical properties, which have been widely used in homogenous catalysis, for example, for the synthesis of lead compounds and drug candidates. Over the past two decades, a few scientists from all over the world have extended the use of the specific characteristics of these compounds (e.g. structural diversity, possibility of ligand exchange, redox a...

This paper presents a discussion of fundamental problems of the speciation analytics of organometallic compounds occurring at low concentration levels in samples involving a complex matrix. It points out differences in analytical procedures for speciation analyses and those for determinations of total contents of a metal present in the studied sample in a number of different species.