Surface chemistry of benzene, acetylene and ethylene on porous glass

CHED 1035

Matthew D. Graaf, mgraaf@uni.edu and Shoshanna R. Coon, shoshanna.coon@uni.edu. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0423
The surface chemistry of benzene, acetylene, and ethylene adsorbed onto porous glass at approximately 120 K was studied under ultrahigh vacuum conditions using temperature programmed desorption, temperature programmed mass spectrometry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Preliminary data suggests that benzene and ethylene desorb intact, but that acetylene undergoes surface chemistry to produced adsorbed ethanol.
 

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