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Figure 2. Pyrolysis - chemisorption - oxidation of cottonwood. (Reproduced with permission from Ref. 19. Copyright 1989 Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Inc.)...

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Examination of the literature discloses very few examples of classical quantitative elemental analysis. ESCA is an extraordinarily sensitive surface technique involving the top twenty or so angstroms in this sense, almost vanishingly small amounts of an element, about 0.001 monolayer, can be detected. To attempt an elemental analysis of a sample, however, immediately presents the analyst with the question of how representative the surface is of the rest of the sample, particularly in view of the possibility of surface contamination. Sample preparation is critical and must contend with a wide variety of surface phenomena such as adsorption and chemisorption, oxidation, and mechanical contamination, as well as more subtle phenomena that will be brought out in greater detail below. One important point is that both ESCA and Auger spectroscopy are essentially nondestructive techniques. 

Controlled Thin-Film Growth Studies. The pristine adsorption of O2 onto the surface of Al(l 11) was studied by McConville et al. [66]. This was a very involved photoelectron study that was reviewed in detail by Bradshaw [67]. McConville et al. report the Al°(2p) 3/2 to 1/2 split with the Al°(2p3/2) at 72.5 eV. Several intermediate (chemisorption ( )) oxidized Al peaks were also detected, producing, among others, Al (2p) peaks split from the metal by 1.5 eV. Then, finally, after coverage of several monolayers of purported AI2O3, an Al (2p) was generated split from that of Al° by 2.7 eV. 

The hydrophobic character exhibited by dehydroxylated silica is not shared by the metal oxides on which detailed adsorption studies have been made, in particular the oxides of Al, Cr, Fe, Mg, Ti and Zn. With these oxides, the progressive removal of chemisorbed water leads to an increase, rather than a decrease, in the affinity for water. In recent years much attention has been devoted, notably by use of spectroscopic and adsorption techniques, to the elucidation of the mechanism of the physisorption and chemisorption of water by those oxides the following brief account brings out some of the salient features. 

Physisorption and chemisorption of water on alumina, titania and ferric oxide selection of results (Morimoto ef a/. )... 

Only the surface layers of the catalyst soHd ate generaHy thought to participate in the reaction (125,133). This implies that while the bulk of the catalyst may have an oxidation state of 4+ under reactor conditions, the oxidation state of the surface vanadium may be very different. It has been postulated that both V" " and V " oxidation states exist on the surface of the catalyst, the latter arising from oxygen chemisorption (133). Phosphoms enrichment is also observed at the surface of the catalyst (125,126). The exact role of this excess surface phosphoms is not weH understood, but it may play a role in active site isolation and consequently, the oxidation state of the surface vanadium. 

Chemisorption of alkanethiols as well as of di- -alkyl disulfides on clean gold gives indistinguishable monolayers (251) probably forming the Au(l) thiolate species. A simple oxidative addition of the S—S bond to the gold surface is possibly the mechanism in the formation of SAMs from disulfides ... 

CO oxidation catalysis is understood in depth because potential surface contaminants such as carbon or sulfur are burned off under reaction conditions and because the rate of CO oxidation is almost independent of pressure over a wide range. Thus ultrahigh vacuum surface science experiments could be done in conjunction with measurements of reaction kinetics (71). The results show that at very low surface coverages, both reactants are adsorbed randomly on the surface CO is adsorbed intact and O2 is dissociated and adsorbed atomically. When the coverage by CO is more than 1/3 of a monolayer, chemisorption of oxygen is blocked. When CO is adsorbed at somewhat less than a monolayer, oxygen is adsorbed, and the two are present in separate domains. The reaction that forms CO2 on the surface then takes place at the domain boundaries. 

Physical adsorption—surface areas of any stable solids, e.g., oxides used as catalyst supports and carbon black Chemisorption—measurements of particle sizes of metal powders, and of supported metals in catalysts... 

In particular, emphasis will be placed on the use of chemisorption to measure the metal dispersion, metal area, or particle size of catalytically active metals supported on nonreducible oxides such as the refractory oxides, silica, alumina, silica-alumina, and zeolites. In contrast to physical adsorption, there are no complete books devoted to this aspect of catalyst characterization however, there is a chapter in Anderson that discusses the subject. 

Metal Oxide - Since metals are less electrophilic than silicon, metal oxide adsorbents show even stronger selectivity for polar molecules than do siliceous materials. The most commonly used metal oxide adsorbent is activated alumina, used primarily for gas drying. Occasionally, metal oxides find applications in specific chemisorption systems. For example, several processes are under development utilizing lime or limestone for removal of sulfur oxides from flue gases. Activated aluminas have surface areas in the range of 200 to 1,000 ftVft Average pore diameters range from about 30 to 80 A. 

Many inorganic compounds and all organic compounds also react directly with O2 under appropriate conditions. Reaction may be spontaneous, or may require initiation by heat, light, electric discharge, chemisorption or various catalytic means. Oxygen is normally considered to be divalent, though the oxidation state can vary widely and includes the values of - -i, 0, —j, —j, —I and —2 in isolable compounds of such species as 02", O3, 03 , 02 , 02 and respectively. The coor-... 

M. McD. Baker and G. I. Jenkins Chemisorption and Catalysis on Oxide Semiconductors... 

Chemisorption and Catalysis on Metallic Oxides F. S. Stone Radiation Catalysis... 

Anodic polarization also may occur. Typically, this begins with the formation of a thin, impervious oxide film, chemisorbed at the anode (as on the surface of stainless steels). However, for most metals used in boiler plant systems this chemisorption process must be aided by anodic corrosion inhibitors to reduce corrosion rates to tolerable levels. An example is the application of nitrite-based inhibitors, widely used in HW heating systems. 

It has been pointed out (S2) that this type of operation might be widely applicable for organic oxidation processes, provided suitable inert carrier liquids can be found. It may be noted in this connection that the liquid must be reasonably resistant against oxidation and that it must not cause catalyst deactivation—for example, by chemisorption. 

In the presence of mineral phases containing anions that would form sparingly soluble compounds (e.g. POt - and F for the lower oxidation states) an enhanced plutonium uptake due to chemisorption can be expected (57). For plutonium in the higher oxidation states the formation of anionic carbonate complexes would drastically reduce the sorption on e.g oxide and silicate surfaces. 

R.A. Marbrow, and R.M. Lambert, Chemisorption and surface reactivity of nitric oxide on clean and sodium-dosed Ag(110), Surf. Sci. 61, 317-328 (1976). 

This linear variation in catalytic activation energy with potential and work function is quite noteworthy and, as we will see in the next sections and in Chapters 5 and 6, is intimately linked to the corresponding linear variation of heats of chemisorption with potential and work function. More specifically we will see that the linear decrease in the activation energies of ethylene and methane oxidation is due to the concomitant linear decrease in the heat of chemisorption of oxygen with increasing catalyst potential and work function. 

Increasing catalyst potential and work function leads to a pronounced increase in total oxygen coverage (which approaches unity even at elevated temperatures) and causes the appearance of new chemisorption states. At least two such states are created on Pt/YSZ (Fig. 4.43) A strongly bonded one which, as discussed in Chapter 5, acts as a sacrificial promoter during catalytic oxidations, and a weakly bonded one which is highly reactive and causes the observed dramatic increase in catalytic rate. 

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