Abstract
The thermal decomposition of methylamine on Ru(001) was studied with reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) and temperature programmed reaction spectroscopy (TPRS). After the multilayer methylamine desorbs at 150 K, the RAIR spectra of the remaining monolayer methylamine undergo small changes due to structural rearrangements but do not indicate any chemical changes until 250 K. The results are in agreement with recent theoretical investigations indicating that CH3 dehydrogenation to produce HxCNH2 species occurs before N–H and C–N bond scission. Experimental spectra of 13C- and 15N-substituted methylamine combined with DFT calculations of HxCNHy fragments attached to a Ru19 cluster to simulate the RAIR spectra, including isotopic shifts, clarified the spectral assignments.
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