Af. Carley et al., ACTIVATION OF CARBON-MONOXIDE AND CARBON-DIOXIDE AT CESIUM-PROMOTED CU(110) AND CU(110)-O SURFACES, Journal of physical chemistry, 98(37), 1994, pp. 9175-9181
Through a combination of X-ray photoelectron and vibrational spectrosc
opies the interaction of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide with cesia
ted Cu(110) and Cu(110)-O surfaces has been investigated. At 80 K carb
on monoxide is adsorbed at an atomically clean Cu(110) surface with a
characteristic loss feature at 2085 cm(-1) and O(1s) and C(1s) core-le
vel binding energies at 533.8 and 290 eV, respectively. Exposure of th
e CO adlayer to cesium at 80 K effects a decrease in the frequency of
the loss feature to 1730 cm(-1) and on warming to 298 K this is replac
ed by two loss features at 1450 and 196 cm(-1). The O(1s) peak has sim
ultaneously shifted to 532 eV. The interaction of CO2 with Cu(110)-Cs
at 80 K is characterized by loss features assigned to the ionic CO2 de
grees-(a) and physically adsorbed CO2 species; on warming to 298 K the
spectrum simplifies to generate two strong losses at 1380 cm(-1) and
1500 cm(-1) and weaker losses at 1050, 600, and 350 cm(-1) and assigne
d to carbonate formation. Both chemisorbed and coadsorbed oxygen at a
Cu(110)-Cs surface are highly reactive to CO with both core-level and
vibrational spectroscopy providing evidence for low-energy pathways to
surface carbonate via CO2delta- as an intermediate. These pathways ar
e also available at atomically clean Cu(110) surfaces; i.e., in the ab
sence of cesium. In this case when CO2-rich CO2-dioxygen mixtures are
coadsorbed-reactive oxygen transients participate in the chemistry.