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doi:10.1016/S0039-6028(96)00895-3 
Copyright © 1996 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
Surface science
Density functional and infrared spectroscopy studies of bonding and vibrations of NH species adsorbed on the Ru(001) surface: a reassignment of the bending mode band
Markus Staufera, Konstantin M. Neymana, Peter Jakobb, Vladimir A. Nasluzova, 1, Dietrich Menzelb and Notker Röscha, 
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Received 14 April 1996;
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Abstract
The electron energy-loss feature at about 1350 cm−1 often observed on the Ru(001) surface (and on other transition-metal surfaces) with N- and H-containing adsorbates is commonly assigned to the bending mode of the adsorbed NH species. Since it is widely used in the literature as a fingerprint for tilted NH species adsorbed on metals, we have inspected this assignment with the help of density functional model cluster calculations and infrared spectroscopy experiments. Adsorption in three-fold hollow sites with the N---H axis oriented perpendicular to the surface is computed to be energetically favored. Consequently, the Ru---N---H bending mode is dipole-forbidden in this adsorption complex, but this mode should be dipole-allowed for the tilted NH moiety calculated to be weaker bound in the on-top position of Ru(001). The vibrational frequencies of the Ru---N---H bending mode for both conceivable structures of the adsorption complexes are calculated to be lower by more than 500 cm−1 than the experimental value assigned to this mode. Newly recorded infrared spectra of the reactive N + O + H(D)/Ru(001) system could easily have detected N---H (N---D) stretching modes of adsorbed NH (ND) species. However, no maxima were found in the region from 700 to 2000 cm−1 which can be related to adsorbed NH, in full agreement with the density functional cluster-model results. Therefore, the electron energy-loss feature at about 1350 cm−1 has to be due to a different NH-related surface species.
Author Keywords: Chemisorption; Density functional calculations; Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Infrared absorption spectroscopy; Low index single crystal surfaces; Metallic surfaces; Ruthenium
