Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst participated in the financing, with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja joining the board of directors.
The dispersion of the Cr catalyst is 20%, whereas only half the metal atoms at the catalyst surface participate in the oxidation and reduction.
Existing investors Mohr Davidow and General Catalyst also participated, bringing the total capital the company has raised since launch to $29 million.
This is followed by the kinetic resolution step whereby the chiral catalyst selectively participates in SN2′ reaction with only one enantiomer of the activated starting material.
Existing investor General Catalyst also participated.
It was confirmed that the catalyst surface oxygen participates to the activation of propane forming propene and oxidation products with similar selectivities as those obtained under co-feed conditions.
If charge separation is maintained, the electron and hole may migrate to the catalyst surface where they participate in redox reactions with absorbed species.
For example, over Pt/Al2O3, it was observed that at increasing sulphur coverages, dissociated hydrogen is gradually desorbed but that a percentage spends a significant lifetime on the catalyst [3], and can participate in reactions.
However, weakly adsorbed oxygen species are also present at the catalyst surface, and these species participate in degradation routes producing waste products.
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