Va. Matyshak, DETERMINATION OF THE ROLE OF SURFACE COMPLEXES IN A CATALYTIC REACTION USING THE SPECTROKINETIC METHOD, Kinetics and catalysis, 38(3), 1997, pp. 398-402
The possibilities of the spectrokinetic method to establish the mechan
isms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions are considered. The coincide
nce of the simultaneously measured parameters, the rate of the convers
ion of a surface complex (using IR spectroscopy) and the reaction rate
suggests that the surface complex observed is the intermediate in a g
iven reaction.