Study of Iron–Carbonyl Complexes by X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy (XES) (CAT#: STEM-ST-0297-WXH)

Name: Study of Iron–Carbonyl Complexes by X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy (XES)
SKU: STEM-ST-0297-WXH
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Introduction

Transition-metal carbonyls are of tremendous importance in numerous scientific fields. They are applied as CO-releasing molecules (CORM) in medical therapy, and the binding of CO to enzymatic centers is very often found to be crucial for their biologic activity. Of more economic relevance is the role that they play as intermediates in catalytic reactions, such as the oxidation of CO to CO2 over metal catalysts, and CO hydrogenation to form hydrocarbons in the Fischer–Tropsch process.

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Principle

XES is an element-specific method primarily used to analyze the partially occupied electronic structure of materials. The technique is one of the photon-in-photon-out spectroscopies in which an incident X-ray photon is used to excite a core electron, which leads to the transition of the electron from the ground state to the excited state, and then the excited state of the electron decays with the emission of an X-ray photon in order to fill the core hole.