Kinetics of the Reaction of Adsorbed Hexamethyldisilane on C/Pt(111) with D Atoms: Si−Si Bond Breaking

Autor: Jürgen Küppers, and Th. Zecho, Stefan Wehner
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 105:1799-1804
ISSN: 1520-5207
1520-6106
Popis: The adsorption of hexamethyldisilane (HMDS) and trimethylsilane (H-TMS) on graphite monolayers on Pt(111) surfaces was studied with thermal desorption spectroscopy, and the kinetics of reactions of gaseous D atoms with adsorbed H-TMS and HMDS was investigated with reaction product detection techniques. HMDS and H-TMS adsorb and desorb molecularly in the mono- and multilayer regimes. Zero-order desorption indicates that in either regime the molecules tend to agglomerate in islands. Reaction of D atoms with adsorbed HMDS leads via insertion of D into the Si−Si bond to D-TMS products, either adsorbed or as gaseous species, depending on the substrate temperature. D impact-induced abstraction of H from the methyl groups and of methyl from HMDS is much less efficient than D insertion into the Si−Si bond, in accordance with the energetics involved. The reaction kinetics is compatible with an Eley−Rideal mechanism, and a reaction cross-section of σ = 0.4 A2 was obtained. Adsorbed H-TMS does not react with D.
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