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Vibrationally bond-selected chemisorption of methane isotopologues on Pt(111) studied by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy

Chen, Li  
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Ueta, Hirokazu  
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Bisson, Régis  
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2012
Faraday Discussions- Royal Society of Chemistry

Reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) was used to probe for vibrational bond-selectivity in the dissociative chemisorption of three partially deuterated methane isotopologues on a Pt(111) surface. While a combination of incident translational energy and thermal vibrational excitation produces a nearly statistical distribution of C-H and C-D bond cleavage products, we observe that laser excitation of an infrared active C-H stretch normal mode leads to highly selective dissociation of a C-H bond for CHD3, CH2D2, and CH3D. Our results show that vibrational energy redistribution between C-H and C-D stretch modes due to methane/surface interactions is negligible during the sub-picosecond collision time which indicates that vibrational bond-selectivity may be the rule rather than the exception in heterogeneous reactions of small polyatomic molecules.

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DOI
10.1039/C2FD20007D
Web of Science ID

WOS:000309137600015

Author(s)
Chen, Li  
Ueta, Hirokazu  
Bisson, Régis  
Beck, Rainer D.  
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

Published in
Faraday Discussions- Royal Society of Chemistry
Volume

157

Start page

285

End page

295

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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LCPM  
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February 27, 2012
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