Abstract
Dissociative adsorption of formic acid and methanol on adatom-modified Pt(111) electrodes has been carried out as a way of studying poison formation reactions on these surfaces. The electrodes were prepared using irreversible adsorption of Bi and As. A modification of the dissociative adsorption technique used for poison formation studies has been employed. For clean Pt(111) surfaces the behaviour of the poison formation reaction of the two organic molecules is almost the same, but on adatom-modified Pt(111) electrodes different results are found. Bi and As show an important long-range electronic effect which inhibits poison formation from the dissociative adsorption of formic acid at very low adatom coverage. However, for methanol, the inhibition due to the presence of Bi adatoms on the surface can be explained by a simple third-body effect. A computer simulation of the dissociative adsorption of formic acid on Bi-modified Pt(111) electrodes has been carried out in order to calculate the width of the domains affected by the presence of Bi adatoms.
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