Study of adsorption states and interactions of CO on evaporated noble metal surfaces by infrared absorption spectroscopy: I. Silver

We have used infrared absorption spectroscopy to study the adsorption of CO at low temperature on evaporated silver films as a function of the coverage of CO and the deposition temperature of the silver. We observe two adsorption regimes when a cold silver film is exposed to CO gas. If the silver deposition temperature, (or the highest temperature at which the silver has been annealed), is above the threshold temperature of 150 K, then only physisorbed CO is observed. For sample temperatures below 25 K, these physisorbed molecules are oriented perpendicular to the metal surface. Films deposited at temperatures below 150 K, however, contain ≈ 0.01 monolayer of chemically active sites at which CO chemisorbs. The infrared band due to chemisorbed CO shifts to lower frequency with increasing coverage. We have analyzed this shift and separated the static and dynamic contributions. The static, chemical shift is caused in part by the change in the work function induced by surrounding adsorbates. The dynamics shift is fully explained by a dipole-dipole interaction; we find no evidence for a vibrational coupling through the metal. We have analyzed the vibrational polarizability and infrared absorption strength of the absorbed CO, and find no evidence for the infrared enhancement suggested by some theories of surface enhanced Raman scattering.     

P450血红素与CO、NO 和O2结合性质的密度泛涵研究

用两种模型在B3LYP/6-31G(d)水平上研究了双原子分子CO、NO和O2 (通称XO) 与P450血红素的结合性质. 在模型M2中考虑了双原子分子XO附近的丝氨酸残基对其的影响. 结果表明血红素附近的丝氨酸使得XO与血红素的结合更加牢固. 频率分析表明，当XO与血红素结合后X{O伸缩振动频率降低.同时讨论了复合物的HOMO和LUMO轨道的组成.     

Unified theory of photoelectron and vibrational spectra of chemisorbed molecules on metal surfaces

Photoelectron spectra of diatomic molecules such as CO and N₂ weakly chemisorbed on metal surfaces exhibit a multitude of satellite lines due to multi-electron excitations in which the photoinduced hole is screened by charge transfer from the metal into the low-lying unoccupied level. Recently Heskett et al. [Surface Sci. 139 (1984) 558] noticed that in the systems which display the satellite lines, the molecular vibrational frequencies decrease with increasing molecular coverage, in contrast to what is expected from dipole-dipole coupling theory. They then claimed that instead of the 2π¹-metal bonding, the 5σ orbital is responsible for the bond to the substrate. This leads to a shift of the C-O stretching frequency to lower energy as the molecular coverage increases, since the 5σ orbital has an antibonding character with respect to the stretch vibration. Other experimental phenomena which should be taken into account are the negative shift and substantial broadening of the vibrational spectra of these molecules upon chemisorption on metal surfaces. Experimental results seem to reveal that the magnitude of negative shift and width increases with the strength of chemisorption, thereby suggesting that an unique mechanism is responsible for these vibrational properties. We propose a unified theory which enables us to understand these apparently unrelated electronic and vibrational properties in terms of the occupancy of the low-lying 2π¹ level in the neutral ground state and in vibrational excited states of the chemisorbed molecules. Also discussed is a change of the vibrational frequencies with coverage within the framework of the chemical frequency shift caused by charge transfer between the 2π¹ level and the metal.     

A DFT study of carbon monoxide adsorption on a Si4 nano-cluster

Using the gradient-corrected hybrid density functional method of Predew, Burke, and Ernzerhof (PBEPBE) and the new hybrid meta-density functional method of Truhlar (MPW1B95), the geometry, adsorption energy, vibrational frequency, and charge distribution of carbon monoxide adsorption on a Si₄ nano-cluster has been studied. Taking into account spin multicipility in the calculations, a new stable structure of CO absorbed on the Si₄ cluster has been found, in addition to the previously reported structures. Exhaustive vibrational frequency analysis of optimized structures shows that some of the formerly reported structures have imaginary vibrational frequencies and are not proper stable structures. Thus, they do not represent real local energy minima. Also, CO vibrational frequency analysis shows that a significant change of vibrational frequency in the stable structures occurs.     

Phonon-assisted excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic systems

The phonon-assisted process of energy transfer aiming at exploring the newly emerging frontier between biology and physics is an issue of central interest.This article shows the important role of the intramolecular vibrational modes for excitation energy transfer in the photosynthetic systems.Based on a dimer system consisting of a donor and an acceptor modeled by two two-level systems,in which one of them is coupled to a high-energy vibrational mode,we derive an effective Hamiltonian describing the vibration-assisted coherent energy transfer process in the polaron frame.The effective Hamiltonian reveals in the case that the vibrational mode dynamically matches the energy detuning between the donor and the acceptor,the original detuned energy transfer becomes resonant energy transfer.In addition,the population dynamics and coherence dynamics of the dimer system with and without vibration-assistance are investigated numerically.It is found that,the energy transfer efficiency and the transfer time depend heavily on the interaction strength of the donor and the high-energy vibrational mode,as well as the vibrational frequency.The numerical results also indicate that the initial state and dissipation rate of the vibrational mode have little influence on the dynamics of the dimer system.Results obtained in this article are not only helpful to understand the natural photosynthesis,but also offer an optimal design principle for artificial photosynthesis.     

Cluster and band structure ab initio calculations on the adsorption of CO on acid sites of the TiO2(110) surface

The interaction of CO with the cationic sites of the TiO₂(110) surface has been investigated with cluster models and band structure calculations. The analysis of Hartree-Fock and correlated wavefunctions has shown that CO adsorbs at a distance of 4.4–4.5 bohr and a binding energy of 0.7–0.8 eV at low coverage. The bond strength is determined by the CO polarization and the CO б-donation to the surface while the electrostatic attraction is almost exactly cancelled by the Pauli repulsion. The adsorption is accompanied by two important measurable features, a considerable blue shift of the CO vibrational frequency and an increase of the CO 5б ionization potential. Both these effects have been analyzed in detail. We found that the CO ω shift is largely due to a combination of the electrostatic Stark effect and of the repulsion occurring when the CO molecule stretches in the presence of the rigid surface. The change in the 1π–5б binding energies, on the other hand, has an entirely electrostatic origin. Neither the ω shift nor the 5б binding energy shift are determined by the б-donation mechanism. Nevertheless, the occurrence of a charge transfer from CO to the empty levels of the Ti centers is well documented by (a) the energy and dipole moment change associated to this mechanism, (b) the expectation value of a projection operator which measures the charge associated with a given orbital, and (c) the CO dynamic dipole moment. The same analyses also rule out the occurrence of a Ti-to-CO back donation.     

CO_2在与高振动激发NaH碰撞中的量子态分辨能量再分配

利用简并受激超拉曼泵浦激发NaH基态到高位振动态(ν″=14,J″=20)。研究了NaH(14,20)与CO_2(00°0)间的振转能量转移。利用吸收系数和瞬时Doppler线宽,得到不同池温下NaH(14,20)分子密度,测量CO_2(00°0,J)与NaH高振动态碰撞前后的瞬时泛频激光感应荧光谱线的相对强度,确定了CO_2(00°0,J=2~80)的初生态布居,它们呈现双指数转动分布。拟合实验数据得到两个转动温度T_(rot)=(650±80)和(1 531±150)K。较冷的分布约占CO_2(00°0)的79%,它是由弹性或弱非弹性碰撞产生的,因而CO_2只有很小的转动激发。另有21%的CO_2(00°0)较大地增加了转动能,故有较热的转动温度。对碰撞产生的CO_2(00°0,J)进行高分辨率瞬时泛频荧光谱线的轮廓测量,得到各转动态平移能的改变。对于CO_2(00°0,J=56~80),转移能从582cm~(-1)(对于J=60)增加到2 973cm~(-1)(对于J=80)。探测转动态布居数的改变,得到各转动态的产生速率系数k_(app)~J之和为(7.2±1.8)×10~(-10) cm~3·mol~(-1)·s~(-1),而平均倒空速率系数〈kdep〉=(6.9±1.7)×10~(-10)cm~3·mol~(-1)·s~(-1)。     

1.5μm处CO2与CO高温线强的实验分析与理论计算

本文在采用乘积近似方法计算二氧化碳、一氧化碳分子总的配分函数(其中分子的振动配分函数采用谐振子近似, 转动配分函数采用非刚性转子模型, 并考虑了离心扭曲修正)的基础上, 利用所得配分函数和振动跃迁矩平方的实验值以及Herman-Wallis系数, 计算了1.5 μm 附近二氧化碳30012–00001跃迁带和一氧化碳3–0跃迁带在300–6000 K温度范围内部分温度下的吸收线强; 为验证计算方法和结果的准确性, 在基于可调谐二极管激光吸收光谱技术搭建的高温测量系统中, 对300–800 K温度范围内部分谱线线强进行了测量, 并把计算结果、测量结果及HITRAN数据库中对应数据进行了对比, 发现相对偏差小于3%, 证明了本方法的有效性, 同时计算及测量所得高温线强数据可对HITRAN数据库进行有效的校正和补充.     

二维红外光谱法对肉豆蔻酸相变过程的研究

脂肪酸由于成本低、相变潜热大、热稳定性好的特点,在有机固-液相变材料中应用较多。对脂肪酸进行热分析一般采用热重法（TG）或差示扫描量热法（DSC）得到材料宏观上的热力学性质,但难以对其微观结构变化进行深入探讨。二维红外光谱（2D-IR）在温度扰动的作用下,样品的光谱信号将随之发生动态变化。通过数学处理能够发现样品在相变过程中微观结构的变化。以肉豆蔻酸为例,采用傅里叶红外光谱仪,在4 000～400 cm-1和30～100 ℃温度范围内对肉豆蔻酸进行一系列红外光谱实验。采用二维移动窗口（MW2D）红外光谱技术,对肉豆蔻酸中的CO和O—H键进行分析,发现MW2D测出的肉豆蔻酸熔点与传统的DSC测出的基本一致,且两种化学键显示的热数据具有良好的一致性和稳定性。对光谱数据进行2D-IR分析,结果表明,由于分辨率的提高,一维光谱中单一的重叠吸收峰对应着二维光谱中的多个吸收峰,根据2D-IR的理论知识,推测可能存在二聚体肉豆蔻酸构型向单聚体肉豆蔻酸构型转变的情况。从峰强度和温度的变化关系中发现,升温时CO键和O—H键存在三个变化过程,达到相变温度之前,CO吸收峰强度基本不变,O—H吸收峰强度逐渐下降,说明O—H键偶极矩的变化比CO键更易受温度影响;相变过程中,两者吸收峰强度都显著减弱且O—H吸收峰强度下降幅度更大;达到相变温度之后,可能因O—H形成的分子间氢键,受热导致由强变弱,O—H上的电子云移向CO,导致CO吸收峰强度增大、O—H吸收峰强度减小。同时,结合密度泛函理论,对二维红外光谱的推论进行理论验证,可知存在二聚体肉豆蔻酸向单聚体肉豆蔻酸的转化过程。     

Temperature dependence of the vibrational lineshape of CO chemisorbed on the Ni(111) surface

The lineshape of the carbon-oxygen stretching vibration for CO chemisorbed at the two-fold bridge sites and on top sites of Ni(111) has been measured over the temperature range 80 to 300 K with infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy. The bridge bonded CO undergoes pronounced broadening at higher temperatures while the terminally bonded CO is only slightly broadened. The results are interpreted according to a recent vibrational dephasing model developed for condensed phase molecules. In this model the dephasing is brought about by rapid energy exchange between low frequency modes of the substrate and low frequency modes of the molecule which are anharmonically coupled to the high frequency band being studied.     

Study of adsorption states and interactions of CO on evaporated noble metal surfaces by infrared absorption spectroscopy: II. Gold and copper

We have used infrared absorption spectroscopy to study the adsorption of CO at low temperature on evaporated films of gold and copper as a function of the coverage of CO and the deposition temperature of the metal. For both metals we observe two distinct adsorption regimes when the cold metal is exposed to CO gas. These regimes arise depending on whether the deposition temperature of the metal (or the highest temperature at which the metal has been annealed) is above or below a threshold temperature. Gold films deposited at temperatures below 290 K contain chemically active sites at which CO chemisorbs, while films deposited at higher temperatures do not support CO chemisorption. This behavior is very similar to that observed on silver films. Chemisorption of CO occurs on copper films regardless of deposition temperature, but the vibrational spectrum is radically different for films deposited above and below the threshold temperature of 250 K. For both metals, the shift of the vibrational frequency with CO coverage has been analyzed, and the static and dynamic contributions separated. The dynamic shift is found to be well modeled by dipole-dipole coupling, with no evidence for vibrational coupling through the metal. An analysis of infrared intensities and vibrational polarizabilities shows no evidence for any special infrared enhancement analogous to the large enhancement in Raman cross section peculiar to adsorption on rough metal films, particularly noble metal films, deposited at low temperatures.     

混合气体声复合弛豫频谱的解析模型

为研究声传播和分子多模式振动能量弛豫的相互关系,本文提出了一种混合气体声 复合弛豫频谱的解析模型.该模型从振动模式微观能量转移及其耦合形成宏观弛豫过程两个角度, 分析了依赖于声频率的混合气体有效热容.并通过求解振动模式能量转移的通用弛豫方程, 最终得到可同时体现主副弛豫过程的声弛豫吸收和声频散的解析结果.仿真结果表明, 对于CO₂, CH₄, N₂和O₂组成的多种混合气体, 该模型的声吸收谱与实验数据相符,峰值误差在1%以内,且反映了多振动模式形成的 声复合弛豫吸收谱上通常仅会显现1-2个吸收波峰的物理现象.与已有模型相比, 本解析模型可直接求出混合气体声弛豫频谱上特征点的解析形式,并利于对其进行定性定量分析. 从而为研究声传播特性与气体分子弛豫特性的相互关系提供了一个有效理论模型.     

Long-range reactive dynamics in myoglobin

We report the complete vibrational spectrum of the probe nucleus 57Fe at the oxygen-binding site of the protein myoglobin. The Fe-pyrrole nitrogen stretching modes of the heme group, identified here, probe asymmetric interactions with the protein environment. Collective oscillations of the polypeptide, rather than localized heme vibrations, dominate the low frequency region. We conclude that the heme "doming" mode is significantly delocalized, so that distant sites respond to oxygen binding on vibrational time scales. This has ramifications for understanding long-range interactions in biomolecules, such as those that mediate cooperativity in allosteric proteins.     

Frequency shifts in the spectra of molecules adsorbed on metals,with emphasis on the infrared spectrum of adsorbed CO

Two processes are considered which cause the frequency of the band maximum in the infrared absorption spectrum of molecules adsorbed on metals to shift with increasing coverage. The first arises from the coverage-dependent modification of the local field acting on an adsorbed molecule while the second originates from vibrational coupling arising from a through-metal interaction between molecules adsorbed on different metal atoms. Infrared absorption strengths are discussed and the method used heretofore to obtain the extinction coefficients of adsorbed molecules is questioned. In particular, a factor of 2 which results from the constructive superposition of the incident and reflected electric fields is shown to be often ignored. We show that dipolar (through-space) coupling is too weak to account for the magnitudes of the shifts recently observed for CO on single-crystal Pt and Pd as coverage progressed from low to high values. Vibrational coupling is also shown to account for the disparity in the intensities of the two bands observed when ¹²CO and ¹³CO are coadsorbed on supported metals. Similar experiments on single-crystal surfaces are suggested to help determine to what extent the observed spectral frequency shifts are derived from adsorbate—adsorbate coupling as opposed to other mechanisms.     

可激发气体振动弛豫时间的两频点声测量重建算法

振动弛豫时间是可激发气体分子内外自由度能量转移速率的宏观体现,它决定了声吸收谱峰值点对应的弛豫频率.本文给出了等温、绝热定压和绝热定容三种不同热力学过程下振动弛豫时间的相互关系;基于Petculescu和Lueptow[2005 Phys.Rev.Lett.94 238301]的弛豫过程合成算法,推导了单一压强下两频点声测量值的弛豫时间重建算法.该算法可应用于等温、绝热定压、绝热定容弛豫时间和弛豫频率的重建测量,并避免了弛豫时间传统声测量方法需要不断改变气体腔体压强的问题.仿真结果表明,对于室温下CO_2,CH_4,Cl_2,N_2和O_2组成的多种气体,重建的弛豫时间和弛豫频率与实验数据相符.     

Local bond breaking via STM-induced excitations: the role of temperature

We discuss the influence of temperature on local bond breaking through multiple vibrational excitations induced by inelastic tunneling in the STM. We focus on hydrogen desorption from the H---Si(111) and H---Si(100) systems, but the results are general. The substrate temperature affects the desorption yield in two important ways: first, lowering the temperature increases the H---Si vibrational energy relaxation time, resulting in a higher effective adsorbate temperature and an increased desorption yield. Second, lowering the substrate temperature decreases the dephasing rate of the H---Si modes (manifested by a decrease of the infrared absorption linewidth), which then reduces the rate of incoherent (Förster) vibrational energy transfer away from the Stark-shifted H---Si mode under the tip. This increases the localization of the vibrational energy and enhances the probability for multiple vibrational excitation and desorption. Finally, we discuss the possible implications of our findings on the mechanism of MOS device degradation by hot electrons.     

Computational investigation of CO adsorbed on Au<Subscript>x</Subscript>, Ag<Subscript>x</Subscript> and (AuAg)<Subscript>x</Subscript> nanoclusters (x = 1 − 5, 147) and monometallic Au and Ag low-energy surfaces

Density functional theory calculations have been performed to investigate the use of CO as a probe molecule for the determination of the structure and composition of Au, Ag and AuAg nanoparticles. For very small nanoclusters (x = 1 ? 5), the CO vibrational frequencies can be directly correlated to CO adsorption strength, whereas larger 147-atom nanoparticles show a strong energetic preference for CO adsorption at a vertex position but the highest wavenumbers are for the bridge positions. We also studied CO adsorption on Au and Ag (100) and (111) surfaces, for a 1 monolayer coverage, which proves to be energetically favourable on atop only and bridge positions for Au (100) and atop for Ag (100); vibrational frequencies of the CO molecules red-shift to lower wavenumbers as a result of increased metal coordination. We conclude that CO vibrational frequencies cannot be solely relied upon in order to obtain accurate compositional analysis, but we do propose that elemental rearrangement in the core@shell nanoclusters, from Ag@Au (or Au@Ag) to an alloy, would result in a shift in the CO vibrational frequencies that indicate changes in the surface composition.     

Calculating vibrational mode contributions to sound absorption in excitable gas mixtures by decomposing multi-relaxation absorption spectroscopy

Sound relaxational absorption spectroscopy of excitable gas mixtures is potentially applied for gas composition detection. The relaxation of vibrational modes of gas molecules determines the sound relaxational absorption. However, to our knowledge, the contribution of each vibrational mode available in gas mixtures to sound multi-relaxation absorption has not been calculated in existing literature. In this paper, based on the decoupled expression of the effective isochoric molar heat for a gas mixture, a sound multi-relaxation absorption spectrum is decomposed into the sum of single-relaxation spectra. From this decomposable characteristic, the contribution of each vibrational mode available in the gaseous medium to the multi-relaxation absorption is obtained at room temperature. For various gas compositions including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen etc., the calculated contributions of vibrational modes are verified by the comparison with experiment data. We prove the following views with quantifiable outcomes that the primary molecular relaxation process associated with the lowest mode plays the major role in acoustic relaxational absorption of gas mixtures; the mode with lower vibrational frequency provides higher contribution to the primary relaxation process. This work could provide a deeper insight into the relationship between the sound relaxational absorption spectroscopy and gas molecules.     

脉冲升温纳秒时间分辨中红外光谱研究氨基酸重水溶液的分子间氢键

应用变温傅立叶变换红外光谱和脉冲升温纳秒时间分辨红外差谱研究了组氨酸和甘氨酸的重水溶液的羧基负离子的振动．结果表明不仅氨基酸分子之间形成氢键，而且氨基酸分子和溶剂分子之间也形成氢键．当温度升高时，羧基负离子在1600?1610 cm?1 附近的反对称伸缩振动发生蓝移，说明高温使氢键减弱．温度从10℃突然升高到20℃，组氨酸的时间分辨瞬态光谱出现两个漂白峰，一个在1604 cm?1，指认为形成氨基酸分子间氢键的羧基负离子的峰；另一个在1612 cm?1，指认为氨基酸分子和溶剂分子形成氢键的羧基负离子的峰．前     

Efficiency of stimulation of gaseous chemical reactions by a diffracted light beam whose energy is absorbed by vibrational transitions

Laser-induced reversible chemical reaction kinetics in a gas mixture with the absorption of light energy by molecular vibrational transitions is investigated by mathematical modeling. The influence of beam diffraction, the relaxation time of vibrational energy into heat, and the order of vibrational transition on the structure of the region of high absorption and on the propagation of switching waves is analyzed. The discussion applies to pulses having a duration much longer than the time of energy transfer between vibrational levels. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 65–73 (April 1999)