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Chemical Bonds Outside Metal Surfaces

The problem of molecules interacting with metal surfaces has for a very long time been recognized to be of considerable technological as well as fundamental importance. Thus in the former category, a substantial number of important synthetic reactions for industrial purposes make use of metal surfac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: March, Norman H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1986, 1986
Edition:1st ed. 1986
Series:Physics of Solids and Liquids
Subjects:
Atoms
Physical Chemistry
Spectrum Analysis
Atomic, Molecular And Chemical Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Spectroscopy
Crystallography
Condensed Matter
Crystallography And Scattering Methods
Molecules
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 3.4. Electronic Structure and Conformation of Ethene on Transition- and Noble-Metal Surfaces
  • 3.5. Interaction Between Adsorbates
  • 3.6. Electronic Excited States of Chemisorbed Polyatomic Molecules
  • 4. Dynamics of Adparticles and Neutron Inelastic Scattering
  • 4.1. Principles of Neutron Scattering from Adsorbed Molecules
  • 4.2. Comparison With Other Surface Techniques
  • 4.3. Diffusion Measurements
  • 4.4. Theory
  • 4.5. Electronic and Vibration-Rotation Spectra of Adsorbed Molecules
  • 4.6. Adsorbate Frequency Shifts
  • 4.7. Theoretical Framework for Interpreting Neutron Inelastic Scattering From Covered Surfaces
  • 4.8. Theory of Surface Diffusion
  • 4.9. Vibration Excitation in Molecule-Surface Collisions Due to Temporary Negative Molecular-Ion Formation
  • 4.10. Adparticle Dynamics: Kramers’ Equation in a Metallic Medium
  • 5. MolecularDesorption
  • 5.1. Kramers’ Theory Generalized to Desorption From Solid Surfaces
  • 2.4. Lifetimes of Excited States of Molecules Well Outside Metal Surfaces: a Model Calculation
  • 3.2. Parametrization of the Tight-Binding Model of Ethene
  • 3.3. Parametrization of the Anderson Hamiltonian Describing the ?-Energy Levels of the Free Ethene Molecule
  • 4.1. Three-Dimensional Treatment of the Escape of a Brownian Particle From a Well
  • 4.2. Dynamics of a Brownian Particle in a Fluid: Derivation of Stochastic Elements
  • 4.3. Variational Principle for the Optimum Reaction Coordinate in Diffusion-Controlled Reactions
  • 4.4. Anisotropic Screening of an Adatom Near a Metal Surface
  • 5.1. Spin Fluctuations and Desorption of Hydrogen From Paramagnetic Metals
  • 5.2. Anomalies in Adsorption Equilibrium Near Critical Points of a Substrate
  • 6.1.Symmetry Rules Based on the Surface Electronic Structure of Various Platinum Surfaces
  • 6.3. Analysis of Rate Equations Describing Chemical Oscillations
  • 6.4. Proposed Reaction Sequence for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
  • 5.2. Transition-State Theory Applied to Desorption From Solid Surfaces: Ammonia on Ni(111)
  • 5.3. Microscopic Theories
  • 5.4. Quantum-Statistical Theory of Physisorption
  • 5.5. Coverage-Dependent Regime
  • 5.6. Desorption Induced by Electronic Transitions
  • 6. Catalysis
  • 6.1. Some Definitions and Concepts
  • 6.2. XPS Studies of Desorption and Dissociation Processes
  • 6.3. Compensation Effect
  • 6.4. Relevance of Woodward—Hoffmann Rules to Single-Crystal Catalysts
  • 6.5. Electronic Structure Study of a “Poisoned” Catalyst Surface….
  • 6.6. Chemical Oscillations
  • Appendixes
  • 1.1. Surface Characterization Techniques Used to Determine Structure and Composition of Solid Surfaces
  • 2.1. Density Matrix and Linear-Response Function of the Infinite-Barrier Model of a Metal Surface
  • 2.2. Influence of Fermi-Surface Topology on Asymptotic Displaced-Charge Round Adatoms
  • 2.3. Correlation Effects for Hydrogen Chemisorbed on Transition Metals
  • 6.5. Dissociative Chemisorption — A Primitive Surface Chemical Process
  • 6.6. Nonlinear Rate Equations and the Compensation Effect
  • Notes Added in Proof
  • References
  • 1. Background, Phenomenology, and Motivation
  • 1.1. Chemisorption in Ionic and Covalent Limits
  • 1.2. Kinetics of Adsorption and Desorption
  • 1.3. Thermodynamics of Adsorption
  • 1.4. Reaction Mechanisms Outside Surfaces
  • 1.5. Case History of Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Monoxide
  • 2. Diatomic Molecules
  • 2.1. Physisorbed Diatoms with Weil-Defined Cores
  • 2.2.1. Physisorbed H2
  • 2.3. Interaction Energy: Tight-Binding Model
  • 2.4. Molecular Versus Dissociative Adsorption
  • 2.5. Detailed Bonding Studies
  • 2.6. Electronically Excited States of Chemisorbed Diatoms
  • 2.7. Orientation of Molecular Adsorbates
  • 2.8. Temperature Effects, and Comparison Between Theory and Experiment
  • 3. Conformation and Electronic Structure of Polyatomic Molecules
  • 3.1. Conformation of a Water Molecule Outside a Metal Surface
  • 3.2. Conformation of NH3 and C2H4 Molecules
  • 3.3. Molecular Versus Dissociative Adsorption of NH3 on Transition-Metal Surfaces

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