The alkyl substitution effects and the hybridization effects on the rate of coupling of adsorbed hydrocarbon groups on Ag(111) have been investigated under ultrahigh vacuum by temperature programmed reaction/desorption (TPR/D). For these two different issues, two types of halide precursors were used. One is to form adsorbed fragments bearing C£\(sp3) and C£\-H, the other is to yield adsorbed fragments with different hybridized £\-carbons without C£\-H. The desired hydrocarbon groups were generated on Ag(111) by the thermal dissociation of the C-X (X = I or Br) bond in the corresponding halogenated compounds. Substitution of alkyl for hydrogen in the adsorbed alkyl groups systematically raises the coupling temperature. For example, 3-pentyl groups homo-couple at temperatures ~ 70 K higher than the ethyl homo-coupling reaction. The concept of ¡§geminal repulsion¡¨ can account for our experimental results while the size and the number of the alkyl substitution groups increase. Different hybridized C£\ (metal-bonded carbon) species cause various angle strain energies in the cyclic transition state for the coupling reaction. The C£\(sp) species (CH3C¡ÝC(ad) and (CH3)3SiC¡ÝC(ad)) have rather high coupling temperatures (~ 460 K) due to the unidirectional sp orbital and the stronger Ag-C(sp) bond in the transition state. The relative rates for homo-coupling as a function of the hybridization of the metal-bound carbon follow the trend sp3 > sp2 > sp on the Ag(111) surface. Lastly, we found that the isobutyl groups undergo a £]-hydride elimination instead of homo-coupling on the Ag(111) surface. It may be due to that isobutyl groups have a total of nine £]-hydogens among all the hydrocarbon groups, which makes this rare reaction pathway possibly occur on Ag(111).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0806106-234831 |
| Date | 06 August 2006 |
| Creators | Lee, Long-chen |
| Contributors | Chao-ming Chiang, Lan-chang Liang, Jong-liang Lin |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0806106-234831 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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