An analysis of bond length information for oxygen atoms adsorbed on well-defined metal surfaces

Abstract

New bond valence – bond length relations deduced by Brown and Altermatt for solid state structures have been used for rationalizing O—M interatomic distances, measured by various surface crystallographic techniques, for O atoms chemisorbed on well-defined metal (M) surfaces. The advantages of this approach, over the Pauling–Schomaker–Stevenson approach used previously, are especially apparent for initial rationalizations of new information on the nearest-neighbor and next-nearest–neighbor bond lengths for O adsorbed on long-bridge sites of (110) surfaces of face-centered cubic metals.