Pyrrole Hydrogenation over Rh(111) and Pt(111) Single-Crystal Surfaces and Hydrogenation Promotion Mediated by 1-Methylpyrrole: A Kinetic and Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Study

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Pyrrole Hydrogenation over Rh(111) and Pt(111) Single-Crystal Surfaces and Hydrogenation Promotion Mediated by 1-Methylpyrrole: A Kinetic and Sum- Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Study Christopher J. Kliewer, Marco Bieri and Gabor A. Somorjai* Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 E-mail: somorjai@socrates.berkeley.edu TITLE RUNNING HEAD: Pyrrole hydrogenation over Rh(111) and Pt(111) RECEIVED DATE (to be automatically inserted after your manuscript is accepted if required according to the journal that you are submitting your paper to) CORRESPONDING AUTHOR FOOTNOTE: Gabor A. Somorjai, Tel: 510-642-4053. Fax: 510-643- 9668. E-mail: somorjai@socrates.berkeley.edu. ABSTRACT. Sum frequency generation surface vibrational spectroscopy and kinetic measurements using gas chromatography have been used to study the adsorption and hydrogenation of pyrrole over both Pt(111) and Rh(111) single-crystal surfaces at Torr pressures (3 Torr pyrrole, 30 Torr H 2 ) to form pyrrolidine and the minor product butylamine. Over Pt(111) at 298K it was found that pyrrole adsorbs in an upright geometry cleaving the N-H bond to bind through the nitrogen evidenced by SFG data.