The reaction of [(
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SiO)Zr(CH
2tBu)
3] with H
2 at 150
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C leads to the hydrogenolysis of thezirconium-carbon bonds to form a very reactive hydride intermediate(s), which further reacts with thesurrounding siloxane ligands present at the surface of this support to form mainly two different zirconiumhydrides: [(
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SiO)
3Zr-H] (
1a, 70-80%) and [(
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SiO)
2ZrH
2] (
1b, 20-30%) along with silicon hydrides,[(
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SiO)
3SiH] and [(
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SiO)
2SiH
2]. Their structural identities were identified by
1H DQ solid-state NMRspectroscopy as well as reactivity studies. These two species react with CO
2 and N
2O to give, respectively,the corresponding formate [(
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SiO)
4-xZr(O-C(=O)H)
x] (
2) and hydroxide complexes [(
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SiO)
4-xZr(OH)
x](
x = 1 or 2 for
3a and
3b, respectively) as major surface complexes.