The chemistry of ethylene and hydrogen on Pt(111) monitored with surface vibrational spectroscopy
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Both the hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of ethylene have been studied using infrared-visible sum frequency generation (SFG), a surface vibrational spectroscopy, on the Pt(111) single crystal surface in the v(CH) range. It was found that the dehydrogenation of ethylene to ethylidyne proceeds through an ethylidene (or ethyl) intermediate. The same intermediate was also found to be present in the conversion of both surface vinyl groups and acetylene to ethylidyne. The hydrogenation of ethylene to ethane was examined in situ using SFG over 10 orders of magnitude in pressure. It was found that di-sigma bonded ethylene was readily hydrogenated in UHV at low temperature. Further, di-sigma bonded ethylene was the only species beside ethylidyne found to be present on the Pt(111) surface under conditions of a few Torr of both ethylene and hydrogen at 300K. The surface concentration of di-sigma bonded ethylene on Pt(111) was about 5% of a monolayer under the high pressure conditions.
- OSTI ID:
- 126253
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950402--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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