- Title
- Acetic acid on silicon (001): an exercise in chemical analogy
- Creator
- Warschkow, O.; Belcher, D. R.; Radny, M. W.; Schofield, S. R.; Smith, P. V.
- Relation
- Physical Review B Vol. 84, Issue 15, p. 153302-1-153302-6
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.153302
- Publisher
- American Physical Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Using the acetic acid/Si(001) system as an illustrative example, we discuss the limits and opportunities of “chemical analogy” as a paradigm to rationalize chemisorption processes on surfaces. Recent proposals that acetic acid chemisorption results in a bidentate, single-dehydrogenated product are based on earlier findings for the acetic acid/Ge(001) system. In contrast, the well-characterized reaction of acetone with Si(001) suggests that acetic acid chemisorption leads to the loss of two hydrogen atoms from the molecule. Density-functional calculations resolve this ambiguity, finding the latter structure model to be thermodynamically preferred and kinetically viable.
- Subject
- si(001) surface; ge(100)-2; x-1; chemisorption; chemistry; acetic acid
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1065199
- Identifier
- uon:17751
- Identifier
- ISSN:1098-0121
- Language
- eng
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