The Buoy Effect: Surface Enrichment of a Pt Complex in IL Solution by Ligand Design

Daniel Hemmeter; Daniel Kremitzl; Peter S Schulz; Peter Wasserscheid; Florian Maier; Hans-Peter Steinrück

doi:10.1002/chem.202204023

The Buoy Effect: Surface Enrichment of a Pt Complex in IL Solution by Ligand Design

Chemistry. 2023 Jan 12;29(3):e202204023. doi: 10.1002/chem.202204023. Epub 2023 Jan 4.

Authors

Daniel Hemmeter¹, Daniel Kremitzl², Peter S Schulz², Peter Wasserscheid², Florian Maier¹, Hans-Peter Steinrück¹

Affiliations

¹ Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie 2, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstr. 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
² Lehrstuhl für Chemische Reaktionstechnik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstr. 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.

PMID: 36599486
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202204023

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue are the groups of Hans-Peter Steinrück and Peter Wasserscheid at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. The image depicts two Pt catalysts dissolved in an ionic liquid. For one of them, fluorinated side chains in the ligand system act as buoys leading to pronounced enrichment of the complex at the gas/IL interface, as is evidenced by strongly enhanced Pt signals in angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. For the complex without fluorinated side chains, no such effect is observed. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202203325.