Surface hydroxide

In acidic media, the reactivity of ethanol on Au electrodes is much lower than in alkaline media. The main product of the oxidation of ethanol on Au in an acidic electrolyte was found to be acetaldehyde, with small amounts of acetic acid [Tremiliosi-FiUio et al., 1998]. The different reactivities and the product distributions in different media were explained by considering the interactions between the active sites on Au, ethanol, and active oxygen species absorbed on or near the electrode surface. In acidic media, surface hydroxide concentrations are low, leading to relatively slow dehydrogenation of ethanol to form acetaldehyde as the main oxidation pathway. In contrast, in alkaline media, ethanol, adsorbed as an ethoxy species, reacts with a surface hydroxide, forming adsorbed acetate, leading to acetate (acetic acid) as the main reaction product. 

The exciton reacts further instantaneously with a surface hydroxide ion and a Ti4+ ion of the lattice, forming a hydroxyl radical and a (formal) Ti3+ ion. 

The electrooxidation of CO to C02 is, similar to its electroless counterpart in gas-phase catalysis, one of the most widely studied electrochemical reaction processes [131,152]. It is generally assumed that the electrooxidation of adsorbed CO proceeds primarily via a Langmuir-Hinshelwood type mechanism involving either adsorbed water molecules or, at higher electrode potentials, adsorbed surface hydroxides (see Figure 6.25) according to... 

TAA molecules coordinate to the surface hydroxides to form intermediates for layer-by-layer growth of CdS. 

Charging Hydroxylated Surfaces Definition of IEP(s). A hydroxyl-ated surface should be expected on all oxidic materials which have had a chance to come to equilibrium with an aqueous environment. Charge can develop on a hydroxylated surface through amphoteric dissociation of the surface hydroxide groups. Dissociation reactions can be written as follows, where underscored symbols refer to species forming part of the surface. Symbols not underscored refer to species assumed aqueous unless otherwise specified. 

Predicting IEP(s). To correlate and predict IEP(s) on the basis of solid composition, a useful simplification can be made by taking advantage of the close analogy between dissociation reactions of surface hydroxide groups and of mononuclear hydroxyl complexes. For example,... 

Specific electrolyte adsorption can occur on oxides by ion exchange with structural cations, with hydrogen or hydroxyl of the surface hydroxide groups, or with impurities (92, 94). Ions which can form insoluble compounds or undissociated complexes with a component of the solid crystal lattice adsorb more strongly than those which cannot (2). This does not imply or require that such complexes or compounds do or do not form. The question may be left open. It does imply that, of a series of species which form insoluble compounds with components of the solid, that which forms the least-soluble compound will be adsorbed most strongly. Thus any generalization which can be used to predict solubility or complexing tendency can be extended to predict adsorba-bility, at least qualitatively. 

Once separated, this pair can induce chemical redox transformation with the species adsorbed on the surface. It is assumed that surface hydroxide ions act as hole traps by producing OH radicals ... 

The alumina is then rinsed with 0.1-0.5N H2S04 or HC1 (Clifford and Ghurye, 2002, 222, 229). The acids remove surface hydroxides and reprotonate the alumina surfaces for use in future arsenic removal. 

The conversion of the surface layers of many oxides into surface hydroxide layers is the result of the chemisorption of water on these oxides. On heating, H20 desorbs and the OH groups are converted into 0 ions again. 

The existence of surface metal-oxygen bonds can also be indirectly deduced by the reachvity of these bonds with molecules from the gas phase, such as the surface hydration producing new hydroxyls, the surface carbonation producing carbonates, and also some more complex reactivity, such as the reactivity with alkoxysilanes producing surface alkoxides that may later be converted to surface hydroxides by ehminahon [81]. 

There are about 4-5 surface hydroxy groups per square nanometer on anatase and these are of two different types. One type is basic in nature and can be exchanged by F". This type of site is responsible for the adsorption of acidic species onto the surface and initiates the adsorption of base sensitive compounds such as Mo02(acac)2. The second type of surface hydroxide is acidic. It interacts strongly with base and initiates the adsorption of acid sensitive compounds such as Fe(acac)3.2 This amphoteric nature of titania is illustrated by the zeta potential versus pH curve shown in Fig. 9.9. Cationic catalyst precursers are adsorbed at pH values greater than 7-8 and anionic species from solutions having a pH less than about 5. 

Fia. 8. Defect in the (001) plane of o-CraOs Double oiroles are surface hydroxide ions. Thin oiroles are oxide ions in the bulk except for one at the defect. 

The problems of adhesion viewed from a chemical bonding standpoint are similar. Typical metal mold surfaces have been shown by Kaelble (7 ) to have a surface hydroxide layer of about (40-80) A. Such a surface provides two possible modes of chemical bonding, reaction of the ionic metal - hydroxide directly with the isocyanate, not too likely, or via hydrogen bonding with hydroxyl or other functions of either the chain extender and/or polyol. 

It may be assumed that hydration of an oxide surface results in surface hydroxide groups bound to metal ions (MOH), and that these groups have amphoteric character [4,20.22,23]. The following equilibria are assumed surface protonation (reaction p)... 

Carboxylic Acids Both formic and acetic acid dissociate at room temperature and below on (100) terraces giving surface hydroxide and the formate (HCOO-) and acetate (CH3COO-) species (Peng and Barteau, 1991). 

It is perhaps unfortunate that the only reactions so far considered with oxide catalysis involve oxygen, in the adsorption of which a rather unusual surface bond is formed. It is for this reason that we have attempted to study specificity in H2-D2 exchange at low temperatures, where the active species may be bound very differently. With hydrogen, two mechanisms of adsorption seem possible (2), formation of surface hydroxide, which is associated with a valence change at a neighboring cation,... 

The adsorption mechanism of H" and OH has long been attributed to the amphoteric reaction of the surface hydroxide groups -M-OH [4]. This is schematically represented as... 

An alternative derivation of Eq. (16), based on the amphoteric reactions of the surface hydroxide groups, given as Eq. (1), has been proposed by Levine and Smith [16]. Using the random mixing approximation for the distribution of the three types of surface sites [i.e., neutral, positive, and negative sites, as shown in Eq. (1)], these authors were able to derive an expression for the dependence of cm on the oxide surface. The derivation has also been outlined by Smith [2], and the modified Nemst equation can be written as... 

The first product formed from water dissociation at positive electrode potentials is surface-bonded hydroxyl OH. The dipole moment curve shown in Figure 22, the calculated Mulliken en Hirshfeld charges (-0.37 and -0.27, respectively, for OH on both a 13-atom Ag(lll) and a Pt(lll) cluster), and the field dependence of the various binding characteristics, all suggest that OH forms a polar bond with the metal surface, and hence should be viewed upon as a surface hydroxide This is due to the l r orbital which is occupied by... 

Packed beds of activated alumina can be used to remove arsenic, fluoride, selenium, silica, and natural organic material (NOM) anions from water. The mechanism, which is one of exchange of contaminant anions for surface hydroxides on the alumina, is generally called adsorption, although ligand exchange is a more appropriate term for the highly specific surface reactions involved (2). 

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