Alkali atom chemisorption on small metal particles

A quantum mechanical model of ionic chemisorption on small metal particles is presented. The model takes into account the size dependence of the metal electronic properties and treats ionic and covalent bond contributions in a selfconsistent fashion. The binding energy and the charge at the adatom are found to be strongly size dependent.     

The calculation of the chemisorption energy using the new diagram technique for the Anderson model

Using the perturbation expansion in the rebonding interaction near the surface molecule limit, the new diagram technique for the calculation of the chemisorption energy in the Anderson model is proposed. The new expression for the chemisorption energy in the ring diagram approximation is presented. The approximate expression for the contribution of the non- ring diagrams is suggested. The chemisorption energies are calculated and compared with the available exact results and others in the literature. A simple explanation of observable trends in hydrogen chemisorption energies along the transition metal series is given based on the rebonding surface molecule picture. Received 8 July 1999 and Received in final form 24 January 2000     

过渡金属原子在离子晶体上的化学吸附

本文研究了一种描写过渡金属原子在离子晶体上的化学吸附模型。其中离子晶体用半无限A—B交替原子链代表,而吸附原子d轨道电子间的库仑排斥作用则用Anderson-Newns方法表述。对d轨道电子与晶体表面相互作用的几种不同耦合常数,用自洽格林函数方法计算了化学吸附能和吸附原子的电荷转移量。讨论了各种自洽解的存在条件和性质,得到了一些有趣的定性结论。 关键词：     

The effect of applied electric fields on chemisorption

A simple model is used to study the effects of applied electric fields on the neutral chemisorption bond at a metal-vacuum interface. The adsorbate-substrate complex is represented by a model diatomic molecule in an electric field which varies spatially due to substrate screening. The field induced changes in binding energy, equilibrium position and vibrational frequency of the adsorbate are calculated. The latter changes are due to the dependence of the effective field coefficients on the adsorbate distance from the surface. Measurable effects, which reflect the bond characteristics, are predicted for experimentally attainable fields.     

Semiempirical model calculations for chemisorption on transition metals: I. Exact solution and discussion of a simple model

A specially parameterized model Hamiltonian for chemisorption is proposed, which treats the interaction between adsorbate and metal electrons in some detail. The exact solution is obtained for the case of an electron band with zero width. It is identical with the Hartree-Fock solution. There are no relaxation effects on the ionization energies within this model. A formalism for performing semiempirical calculations is shown to yield a good approximate solution to the model Hamiltonian for the simple case treated in this paper. Qualitative features of wavefunctions, charge transfer, adsorption energy and ionization energies are discussed.     

AI在GaAs(110)面上的吸附

用电荷自洽的EHMO方法研究了Al在GaAs(110)面上的吸附问题。比较了两种吸附构型,从能量极小的观点定出了稳定的吸附应为Al取代表面Ga原子,使Ga落在表面As的悬挂键上。还计算了电荷转移、成键情况和状态密度。 关键词：     

LCGTO-Xα model cluster study for the chemisorption of CO on twofold sites of Ni surfaces

The cluster Ni₂CO is studied as a simplified model for the chemisorption of CO on twofold bridging sites of transition metal surfaces. Using the LCGTO-Xα method we have calculated the potential energy surface for the totally symmetric stretching motion keeping the NiNi distance fixed at the bulk value. The minimum energy is found at a NiC distance of 1.72 Å and a CO bond length of 1.19 Å. The vibrational frequency for the CO bond (1850 cm^?1) shows reasonable agreement with EELS data (1810, 1870 cm^?1), whereas the (Ni₂)C frequency of 495 cm^?1 is remarkably higher than the experimental values (380, 400 cm^?1) indicating an overestimation of the chemisorption bond strength in this simple cluster model. The bonding between CO and Ni is analyzed using orbital correlations, ionization energies and Mulliken population analysis. Important bonding contributions from π backdonation are identified while the a₁orbital manifold exhibits strong antibonding effects.     

Theory of surface chemical reactivity

Fundamental reactivity concepts of relevance to the reactivity of transition metal surfaces are reviewed using elementary quantum-chemical concepts. The Newns-Anderson tight binding model of chemisorption is presented and subsequently used to outline the electronic structure characteristics of weak versus strong chemisorption. Fundamental concepts such as electron localization and surface complex embedding energies are defined and used to help explain surface reactivity. The emphasis here is on establishing an understanding of the surface chemical bond as a function of adatom coordination number, degree of coordinative unsaturation of the surface atoms and electron occupation of the d-type valence electron band. We derive from formal chemisorption theory the important relationships that exist between measured chemisorption properties and the average position of the d-valence electron band. The Newns-Anderson model is also used to show the relationship that exists between the d-band center and the coordinative unsaturation of the metal surface atoms. The general conclusion is that for Group VIII metals the shift of the average energy of the surface local density of states correlates with the strength of the interaction of the surface atoms with the metal atoms next to the surface layer. The same model is then used to analyze the Shustorovich bond order conservation model. The BOC or its modern version UBI-QEP is found to be consistent with a surface interaction potential comprised of a two-body repulsive term along with a constant attractive interaction independent of the number of coordinating atoms. The concepts of weak and strong chemisorption provide a very good basis for the subsequent analysis of the Brønsted-Eyring-Polanyi (BEP) relation. The extreme values of the BEP proportionality constant are related to the concept of loose and tight transition states. This proportionality constant between transition state energy and reaction energy can be expressed in parameters from the Newns-Anderson model by identifying loose transition states with intermediates in which the bond to be activated has not yet been broken, whereas in tight transition states this bond can be considered to be broken. We conclude the paper with an analysis of surface reconstruction. The power of the surface-molecule complex view of chemisorption will be quite apparent. The paper has an extensive introductory section to relate the topics of the four sections that follow with important classical catalytic notions.     

Benzene adsorption on the Rh(111) metal surface: A theoretical study

The chemisorption of benzene on the Rh(111) surface is studied in the general framework of the extended Hückel theory, with optimized Rh parameters. MO arguments are used to discuss the main features of the electronic interaction of the aromatic system with the surface. Binding energy curves for adsorption on the most likely surface sites are computed, and the effect of the CH bond back-bending and of tilting of the benzene plane are examined. The most favorable chemisorption geometry is found when the C-atom ring is parallel to the surface and the center of the ring is above a threefold hollow site, but H atoms are farther away from the surface than C atoms. The optimum CRh distance compares well with those found in metal complex molecules. The on-top site is unfavorable for benzene chemisorption. The results of tight-binding calculations on infinite slabs agree with, and support, those of simple cluster calculations. A slight “Kekulé distortion” and a small activation barrier to chemisorption are predicted.     

On the role of image forces in chemisorption theory

The Extended Anderson Hamiltonian is used to study the effect of fluctuations of an adatom charge Q on the ionic part of the chemisorption energy. It is shown that dynamical effects essentially modify the classical expression E = ? ?Q² for the energy of interaction between a static charge Q and a metal (? is the interaction energy for a unit charge). The exact solution for the one-electron two-level model as well as a variational solution for the Extended Anderson Hamiltonian model are given. Validity conditions for a variety of approximate schemes are studied. The results are presented for the Extended Anderson Hamiltonian model parameterized so as to describe some aspects of the Li/W and Li/Mo chemisorption systems.     

Chemisorption of atomic hydrogen in graphite and carbon nanotubes

An orthogonal tight-binding model of the carbon-hydrogen interaction was modified to deal with the different hybridization states of atomic hydrogen on carbon surfaces, without explicitly including charge self-consistency. The resulting model has great flexibility and computational efficiency, generally with a good quantitative accuracy. The non-self-consistent C-H model was tested by calculating structural properties of small hydrocarbons and simple polymers, and against ab initio results of H binding to both perfect and defective graphite. The model was employed to study the chemisorption properties and dynamics of atomic hydrogen on perfect and defective surfaces of graphite and carbon nanotubes.     

LCAO studies of hydrogen chemisorption on nickel: I. Tight-binding calculations for adsorption on periodic surfaces

The model we have used to study hydrogen chemisorption on nickel surfaces is a tightbinding Extended Hückel method applied to finite (periodic) crystals up to about 250 atoms, the non-orthogonal basis set comprising five 3d orbitals, one 4s orbital and three 4p orbitals per atom. After calculating the band structure of fcc nickel, we have examined, by this model, the effect of the (100), (110) and (111) surfaces on the local density of states and the charge distribution. The results agree closely with moment calculations of the density of states in semi-infinite crystals and with experimental (XPS, UPS and INS) spectra. Extensive studies have been made of the influence of adsorption on the (partial) densities of states in order to illuminate the nature of the chemisorption bond. Particularly, we have concluded that both the 3d electrons and the conduction electrons take part in this bond. Equilibrium positions for adsorption on various sites have been determined and the adsorption energy has been computed and compared with experimental data. We find that the stability of adsorption decreases in the order (110) > (100) > (111) and Atop > Bridge > Centred.     

Oxygen adsorption on an alkali metal-covered Ni(100) surface

The oxygen chemisorption on an alkali (Na, K, Cs) covered Ni(100) surface and its initial oxidation were studied by Auger and electron energy loss spectroscopy (ELS). It was found that in the presence of an alkali metal, the sticking coefficient S remains unity up to a given oxygen coverage of θ_O^cwhose value depends on the alkali overlayer concentration and the ionicity of the Ni-alkali metal bond. At a given oxygen coverage, the line shapes of Auger and loss spectra are almost the same for alkali-covered and clean Ni(100), which suggests that alkali metals cause no change in the character of the Ni-O bond. The effect of alkali metals is associated with increasing electron charge in the surface region, which facilitates oxygen chemisorption. The enhanced surface oxygen concentration in the presence of an alkali metal results in the formation of an oxide phase at lower oxygen exposures than is the case of clean Ni surfaces.     

On the bond lengths reported for chemisorption on metal surfaces

The bond lengths and geometrical arrangements reported with multiple-scattering analyses of LEED intensities for chemisorption on metal surfaces are assessed with Pauling's bond length-bond order relation. The approach here is partly empirical and it depends on information on the atomic valencies; the hybridisation model proposed for metals by Altmann, Coulson and Hume-Rothery is also used to guide the allocation of bonding electrons for the purposes of estimating the orders of surface bonds. It is shown that this framework allows estimates of surface bond lengths to within 0.1 Å of the values reported with LEED, and often the correspondence is substantially closer. Other factors that are likely to influence surface bond lengths have been recognised, but refinements to the present analysis should probably await clarifications of uncertainties in the structures determined with LEED including, for some chemisorption systems, consideration of possible displacements of metal atoms.     

用Xα-DV方法研究CO,NO在Ⅷ族过渡金属表面的化学吸附(Ⅰ)——CO吸附在Rh(111)面的电子结构

本文用自洽Hartree-Fock-Slater分子丛方法计算了CO在Rh(111)面上(θ≤1/3)的电子结构。计算了分子丛的总能量、基态能级随吸附高度的变化。从总能量曲线确定的最佳键长为1.85?与实验值1.95±0.1?符合得较好。相应的吸附能为0.98eV比实验值1.3eV略小。在以上最佳键长处计算了总态密度,考虑终态和弛豫效应后与UPS实验结果符合更好。通过CO分子接近表面时各分子轨道能量本征值的变化,讨论了各轨道的成键、反键特征。通过Mulliken总数分析和用CO分子波函数展开总波函数的系数分析着重讨论了CO分子被过渡金属Rh吸附前后的电荷转移。这种电荷转移导致被吸附CO分子的活化。 关键词：     

Molecular distortions and chemical bonding of a large pi-conjugated molecule on a metal surface

Normal incidence x-ray standing wave experiments and density functional theory reveal that 3,4,9,10-perylene-tetracarboxylic-dianhydride chemisorbs on Ag(111) in a nonplanar but vertically distorted configuration. The carboxylic O atoms are 0.18 +/- 0.03 angstroms closer to the surface than the perylene core. The distortion is related to weak, local bonds between carboxylic O atoms and the Ag surface which are coupled--through charge transfer into the former lowest unoccupied molecular orbital--to the primary, extended chemisorption bond via the perylene skeleton.     

Trends in adsorption of open-shell atoms and small molecular fragments on the Ag(1 1 1) surface

The chemisorption of various atoms (C, N, O, Cl) and molecular fragments (OH, NH, CH, NH₂, CH₂) on the Ag(1 1 1) surface has been studied by employing the embedded cluster and multireference single- and double-excitation configuration interaction (MRD-CI) methods. Ground and excited states of the cluster-adsorbate systems have been computed and molecular orbitals (MOs) as well as electronic charge density distributions and Mulliken populations have been analyzed in order to extract general trends in chemisorption properties for different adsorbates. It has been found that the adsorbate-surface bond is energetically most favorable when a maximum of two electrons of the metal are shared with a given adsorbate. As a result atomic/molecular fragments with less than six valence electrons (N, CH, C) retain some open shells upon adsorption, whereas oxygen as well as chlorine isovalent species form a singlet ground state on the surface. All species considered except for Cl have mainly covalent bonding character to the surface, with an electronic charge of up to 1.0 transferred to the adsorbate from the silver cluster. It has been shown that the ionicity of the bond is strongly correlated with the electron affinity of the adsorbed species. Binding energies, equilibrium geometry and adsorbate location on the cluster have been computed and compared with available experimental data. In addition, the characteristic properties of chemisorption on Ag(1 1 1) and Pt(1 1 1) surfaces have been compared.     

Theoretical model of chemisorption on metals: I. Formalism

A theoretical model of chemisorption on narrow band transition metals is presented. The model is based on the KKR formalism, and concentrates on calculations of quantities which may be associated with UPS measurements. These include for instance changes in density of states ΔN(?) induced by adsorption of an atom on a clean surface, or localised density of states ρL(?) of a given angular momentum L. Results are presented in a form reminiscent of the old Anderson model of chemisorption, thus clarifying considerably the nature of the bond in these systems.     

Coadsorption of methyl radicals and oxygen on Rh(1 1 1)

The chemisorption of CH₃ on Rh(1 1 1) is studied to understand the origin of the weakened symmetric stretch mode. A few different explanations for this weakened mode have been suggested in previous studies. These include C-H bond depletion and donation into C-H anti-bond orbitals either in an upright or tilted geometry. We investigate these possibilities by performing first-principles density functional calculations. Our results show strong adsorption at all high-symmetry sites with methyl in two possible orientations. A thorough analysis of the adsorption geometry shows that C_3v symmetry is preferred over a tilted species, ruling out tilting as a mechanism for C-H mode softening. Evidence of a multi-center bond between methyl and the surface rhodium atoms (similar to the kind shown recently by Michaelides and Hu for methyl on Ni(1 1 1)) is presented, showing that C-H bond depletion is the cause of mode-softening for methyl on Rh(1 1 1). Experimental results have shown that mode-softening diminishes when an electronegative species is coadsorbed, suggesting that donation into C-H anti-bonding orbitals is the mechanism for mode-softening. We therefore examine the coadsorption of oxygen and methyl on Rh(1 1 1). Our results suggest a new model for the effect of O on CH₃. Analysis of charge density differences shows that the dominant initial effects of O coadsorption are the removal of charge from the C-surface bond and the transfer of charge to the C-H bond. Subsequent increase of the H-Rh distance further reduces mode softening.