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SUBMITTER: Anggara K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5476794 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20161209
Bond-selective reaction is central to heterogeneous catalysis. In heterogeneous catalysis, selectivity is found to depend on the chemical nature and morphology of the substrate. Here, however, we show a high degree of bond selectivity dependent only on adsorbate bond alignment. The system studied is the electron-induced reaction of meta-diiodobenzene physisorbed on Cu(110). Of the adsorbate's C-I bonds, C-I aligned 'Along' the copper row dissociates in 99.3% of the cases giving surface reaction, ...[more]