Chemisorption of SO2 and Cl2 on indium oxide

The mutual influence of SO₂ and Cl₂ during their consecutive chemisorption on the In₂O₃ surface has been investigated. It was found that SO₂ is chemisorbed in the uncharged form, and the amount of chemisorption decreases as the temperature increases. The preliminary chemisorption of Cl₂ results in a dramatic decrease in the amount of SO₂ sorbed and in a change in the character of the bonding of SO₂ with the oxide surface. When SO₂ is sorbed first, the temperature of the formation of chlorides during subsequent chemisorption of Cl₂ decreases.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 1718–1721, October, 1994.