Metal-surface binding

Fig. 5.20. [Tl(Tdz)]-DMF, a model for metal-surface binding. Tdz is able to bond hard (H) and soft (S) species.

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The mechanistic details of hydrogenation remain vague. Presumably, the metal surface binds both hydrogen and alkene, weakening the Jt bond of the alkene and the O bond of hydrogen. The alkane is formed by addition of a weakened hydrogen molecule to the coordinated alkene. As the transfer is completed, the product alkane detaches from the metal surface (Fig. 10.4). 

The results obtained demonstrate competition between the entropy favouring binding at bumps and the potential most likely to favour binding at dips of the surface. For a range of pairwise-additive, power-law interactions, it was found that the effect of the potential dominates, but in the (non-additive) limit of a surface of much higher dielectric constant than in solution the entropy effects win. Thus, the preferential binding of the polymer to the protuberances of a metallic surface was predicted [22]. Besides, this theory indirectly assumes the occupation of bumps by the weakly attracted neutral macromolecules capable of covalent interaction with surface functions. 

In 1975, the fabrication of a chiral electrode by permanent attachment of amino acid residues to pendant groups on a graphite surface was reported At the same time, stimulated by the development of bonded phases on silica and aluminia surfaces the first example of derivatized metal surfaces for use as chemically modified electrodes was presented. A silanization technique was used for covalently binding redox species to hydroxy groups of SnOj or Pt surfaces. Before that time, some successful attemps to create electrode surfaces with deliberate chemical properties made use of specific adsorption techniques... 

The importance of one other type of reaction that metal ions undergo has been recognized and studied extensively in the past 40 years. This reaction is adsorption, in which metal ions bind to the surface of particulate matter and are thereby transported as part of a solid phase even though they do not form an identifiable precipitate. Conceptually, these reactions can be thought of as hybrids between complexation and precipitation reactions. Most studies of these reactions have used metal oxides or hydroxides as the solid (adsorbent) phase, and the... 

In the photoelectric effect, energy absorbed from photons provides information about the binding energies of electrons to metal surfaces. When light interacts with free atoms, the interaction reveals information about electrons bound to individual atoms. 

Ethylene, C2H4, can adsorb in two modes the weaker Jt-bonded ethylene, in which the C=C double bond is above a single metal atom, or the stronger di-cr bonded ethylene in which the two C-atoms of the ethylene molecule bind to two metal atoms (Fig. 6.37). We consider the (111) metal surface. Hydrogen adsorbs dis-sociatively and is believed to reside in the threefold hollow sites of the metal. 

In this section, the surface chemistry of non-metals adsorbed as thin layers, films or SAMs on gold surfaces is discussed. Although attachment by a sulfur atom is by far the most predominant binding motif, many other elements may be used to bind to gold. Particular focus is given here to surface binding through atoms other than those already extensively covered in the literature. 

The solution phase is modeled explicitly by the sequential addition of solution molecules in order to completely fill the vacuum region that separates repeated metal slabs (Fig. 4.2a) up to the known density of the solution. The inclusion of explicit solvent molecules allow us to directly follow the influence of specific intermolecular interactions (e.g., hydrogen bonding in aqueous systems or electron polarization of the metal surface) that influence the binding energies of different intermediates and the reaction energies and activation barriers for specific elementary steps. 

Greeley J, Nprskov JK. 2005. A general scheme for the estimation of oxygen binding energies on binary transition metal surface alloys. Surf Sci 592 104-111. 

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