Influence of alloyed Sn on adsorption and reaction of NO on Pt(100) surfaces
Adsorption and reaction of NO on the (5 x 10)-Pt(100) surface and two Sn/Pt(100) surface alloys have been studied using temperature programmed desorption (TPD) and high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS). On the (5 x 20)-Pt(100) surface, in the absence of Sn, NO is primarily reversibly adsorbed, and most of the chemisorbed NO desorbs molecularly from the surface during TPD. Approximately, 25% of the adsorbed NO monolayer decomposes at temperatures higher than 400 K, and this leads to N{sub 2} and O{sub 2} desorption from the surface. Alloying Sn into the surface layer of Pt(100) forms two ordered surface alloys having c(2 x 2) and (3 {radical} 2 x {radical} 2)R45{degree}Sn/Pt(100) surface structures with {theta}{sub Sn} = 0.5 and 0.67 ML, respectively. Alloying reduced the saturation coverage of NO in the chemisorbed monolayer from that on Pt(100) at 100 K, and it also reduced the adsorption energy of molecularly bound NO by more than a factor of 2. Alloyed Sn, which removed all pure-Pt 2-fold bridge and 4-fold hollow sites, completely changed the NO reaction pathway: nitrogen in NO was partially reduced to form N{sub 2}O on these alloys so that N{sub 2}O, along with NO and O{sub 2}, desorption was observed in TPD. NO is bonded at the same site with a similar geometry on both Pt(100) and the Sn/Pt(100) alloyed surfaces at low NO coverages, based on the HREELS spectra. At saturation (monolayer) coverages, however, quite different HREELS spectra were observed on both of the Sn/Pt(100) alloyed surfaces compared to that on Pt(100). Vibrations were observed from adsorbed N{sub 2}O, along with a shift of more than 60 cm{sup {minus}1} for two {nu}{sub NO} peaks on both of the Sn/Pt(100) alloys compared to Pt(100). The two {nu}{sub NO} peaks can be assigned either as (1) two {nu}{sub s} modes of bent (tilted) and linearly bonded atop NO or as (2) {nu}{sub s} and {nu}{sub as} stretching modes of a surface dinitrosyl species, that is, two NO molecules bound to one Pt atom. Dinitrosyl species have been proposed as intermediates for N{sub 2}O formation in reactions of NO on Mo(110)(Queeney and Friend, J.Chem.Phys. 1997, 107, 6432), and the authors suggest that a similar reaction mechanism occurs on Sn/Pt(100) alloys.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 20026899
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, amp General Theory, Vol. 104, Issue 11; Other Information: PBD: 23 Mar 2000; ISSN 1089-5639
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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