This review addresses the most relevant aspects of vibrational spectroscopies (IR, Raman
and INS) applied to zeolites and zeotype materials. Surface Brønsted and Lewis acidity and …

Starting from the late seventies, the progressively increased availability of synchrotron light
sources allowed the execution of experiments requiring a high X-ray flux in a continuous …

This critical review describes the reactivity of heterogeneous catalysts from the point of view
of four simple, but essential for Chemistry, molecules (namely dihydrogen, carbon …

Transition-metal carbonyl complexes, M (CO) x, are cornerstones of modern coordination
chemistry and organometallic chemistry. 1 Coordinatively unsaturated transition-metal …

IR spectroscopy is a technique particularly adapted for understanding the mechanism of
catalytic reactions, being able to probe the surface mechanisms at the molecular level. In …

XAFS, IR, and UV− vis (diffuse reflectance and photoluminescence) spectroscopies have
been employed to investigate the local environment of CuI in CuI-ZSM-5 prepared by gas …

A significant increase in the C− O stretching force constant (F CO) and a decrease in C− O
bond length (r CO) result upon coordination of carbon monoxide to various cationic species …

A detailed analysis of the changes in the electronic structure of CO when a proton or a
positive charge approaches the carbon or the oxygen atom is reported using quantum …

The stability of gold phosphine complexes of the form [Au (PH3) n]+(n= 1− 4) and [AuCl
(PH3) n](n= 1− 3) is analyzed in detail by applying quantum theoretical methods and …

MP2 calculations show that the D∞ h isoelectronic dicarbonyl complexes [M (CO) 2] n (Mn=
Rh−, Pd0, Cu+, Ag+, Au+, Zn2+, Cd2+, Hg2+) depicted in structure 1 can be classified as …