Mixed alkali metal nanoclusters and in situ formation of amides in large-pore frameworks

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We ask for 3 days on TOSCA to conduct Inelastic Neutron Spectroscopy on potassium/sodium encapsulated in silica gel materials (K2Na-SG) and for in situ formation of potassium/sodium amides encapsulated in silica gel. Our previous work on a similar formation of NaH and NaNH2 in silica gel have been very successful and showed that we can not only form these valuable industrial chemicals in nanoparticulate form, but make them non-pyrophoric and thus easier to use in synthetic organic chemistry.Na-SG, K-SG, K2Na-SG materials are used at the moment as powerful reducing agents and for hydrogen production. The proposed study is a continuation of our previous, successful studies on the in situ uptake of hydrogen and ammonia in Na-Silica Gel. The primary outcome will be an investigation of the formation and dynamics of encapsulated sodium and potassium amide silica gel materials.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090221
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090221
Provenance
Creator Dr Asel Sartbaeva; Dr Anibal Ramirez-Cuesta; Professor Peter Edwards; Mr Alexander Ogilvie
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-03-15T10:24:41Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-03-18T14:10:30Z