Formation of catalytic metal-molecule contacts

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5734, 2005, Pages 591-594

  Tulevski, George S ^a   Myers, Matt B ^a   Hybertsen, Mark S ^b   Steigerwald, Michael L ^a   Nuckolls, Colin ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYSTS; OLEFINS; RUTHENIUM; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MOLECULAR WIRES; REACTIVE SITE; STRUCTURAL STABILITY;

WIRE;

CARBON; RUTHENIUM;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRODE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RING CLOSING METATHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 22744431909     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1112767     Document Type: Article

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30. We acknowledge primary financial support from the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Initiative of the NSF under NSF award number CHE-0117752 and by the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR). We acknowledge support from the Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy (#DE-FC02-01ER15264). C.N. thanks the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund type G (#39263-G7), the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Program (2004), and the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Program (2004). We thank the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Program of the NSF under award number DMR-0213574 and by the NYSTAR for financial support for M.L.S. and the shared instrument facility.