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Well-defined surface species can be generated on silica, but as expected for an amorphous support their environment is heterogeneous thus preventing the formation of true single-site species even for monopodal species, and it is particularly evident for multipodal species, (SiO)xM, x > 1.
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Gajan et al. (2011) studied this question.
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