TY - JOUR
T1 - A mechanistic study of nitromethane decomposition on nickel
AU - Benziger, Jay B.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author would like to thank the NSF (CPE 80-24187) and the AFOSR (AFOSR 82-0099) for their financial support of this work.
PY - 1984
Y1 - 1984
N2 - The decomposition of nitromethane on Ni(111) was studied by AES, TPD and IR spectroscopy. Nitromethane decomposed by scission of the NO bonds forming primarily HCN, H2 and absorbed oxygen. The kinetics were described by first order kinetics with attractive interactions between adsorbed intermediates. The attractive interactions resulted in enhanced infrared absorption of the adsorbed nitromethane molecules. Alignment of molecular dipoles causing an enhanced local field is discussed as a possible explanation of this phenomena. Infrared spectra of CO on Ni(111) are also reported that show the line widths for CO in bridged and on-top sides are different.
AB - The decomposition of nitromethane on Ni(111) was studied by AES, TPD and IR spectroscopy. Nitromethane decomposed by scission of the NO bonds forming primarily HCN, H2 and absorbed oxygen. The kinetics were described by first order kinetics with attractive interactions between adsorbed intermediates. The attractive interactions resulted in enhanced infrared absorption of the adsorbed nitromethane molecules. Alignment of molecular dipoles causing an enhanced local field is discussed as a possible explanation of this phenomena. Infrared spectra of CO on Ni(111) are also reported that show the line widths for CO in bridged and on-top sides are different.
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U2 - 10.1016/0378-5963(84)90019-9
DO - 10.1016/0378-5963(84)90019-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0021121008
SN - 0169-4332
VL - 17
SP - 309
EP - 323
JO - Applied Surface Science
JF - Applied Surface Science
IS - 3
ER -