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50 Years in Vibrational Spectroscopy at the Gas/Solid Interface

Some Personal and Group Endeavours

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Surface Chemistry and Catalysis

Part of the book series: Fundamental and Applied Catalysis ((FACA))

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An account is given of the origin of the study of the infrared spectra of adsorbed molecules in Cambridge in the 1950s and of the pioneering contributions of this technique to the determination of the structures of chemisorbed species. More specifically it describes the endeavours of the Cambridge/Norwich research group by this means to determine the structures of such species from the adsorption of ethylene and substituted ethylenes on silica-supported metal catalysts. Success in this field proved to be elusive until the development of vibrational spectroscopic techniques that enabled the measurement of spectra of single monolayers of hydrocarbons on flat single-crystal surfaces. The account describes the stage-by-stage development of these researches which depended on the successive introduction of new ultrahigh vacuum techniques within surface science.

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Sheppard, N. (2002). 50 Years in Vibrational Spectroscopy at the Gas/Solid Interface. In: Carley, A.F., Davies, P.R., Hutchings, G.J., Spencer, M.S. (eds) Surface Chemistry and Catalysis. Fundamental and Applied Catalysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6637-0_3

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