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Development of Cobalt and Iron Catalysts Bearing Rigid Polydentate Ligands for Proton Reduction and C-H Bond Oxidation
The demand for energy consumption has increased exponentially since the Industrial Revolution. The major source of this energy has been and continues to be fossil fuels. The depletion of fossil fuels and environmental concerns associated with their combustion has motivated us to develop a renewable energy alternative to meet future energy demands. Hydrogen is a clean energy alternative to fossil fuels, which can be generated from solar-driven water splitting. However, more efficient and inexpensive catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) are needed. In this context, hydrogen production has been investigated with a stable and highly reactive cobalt-based catalyst. While petroleum and natural gas are not ideal energy sources, they are important feedstocks of inexpensive hydrocarbons for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The selective conversion of C-H bonds into new functional groups under mild conditions is therefore of considerable interest. High-valent nonheme iron-oxo catalysts have been developed as potent oxidants for the functionalization of unactivated C-H bonds. Likewise, the desire to further improve catalyst stability and selectivity for C-H bond oxidation encouraged us to develop and study the coordination chemistry of a polyaromatic ligand that is rigid, tetradentate, and absent of weak C-H bonds to give a strong chelate effect and high stability under strongly oxidizing conditions. The geometry, spin state, redox behavior, and other properties are analyzed for a series of first-row metal complexes
Ks, Lambda and Xi production at intermediate to high pT from Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 39, 11.5 and 7.7 GeV
We report on the pT dependence of nuclear modification factors () for
Ks, Lambda, Xi and the Anti-Lambda/Ks ratios at mid-rapidity from Au+Au
collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 39, 11.5 and 7.7 GeV. At \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 39 GeV,
the data shows a baryon/meson separation at intermediate pT and a
suppression for Ks for pT up to 4.5 GeV/; the Anti-Lambda/Ks shows baryon
enhancement in the most central collisions. However, at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 11.5
and 7.7 GeV, shows much less baryon/meson separation and
Anti-Lambda/Ks shows almost no baryon enhancement. These observations indicate
that the matter created in Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 11.5 or 7.7 GeV
might be distinct from that created at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 39 GeV.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of 7th International
Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD2011), Wuhan,
China, Nov. 7-11, 201
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