Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
195857 Electrochimica Acta 2006 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

Adsorption behaviors of 2-fluoro-, 2-chloro-, and 2-bromobenzoic acids on Au(1 0 0) electrode in 0.1 M HClO4 have been investigated by using in situ reflection adsorption IR spectroscopy and differential capacity measurements. It is found for the 2-substitued benzoic acids that the flat lying adsorbed species is present at negative potentials, and the vertically adsorbed benzoate with both oxygen atoms oriented toward the metal surface is present at positive potentials. A new adsorbed state due to the vertical orientation was observed around 0.75 V only in 2-fluorobenzoic acid solution, as well as the case of benzoic acid. This indicates that the new band is due to the formation of an ordered adsorption layer of the vertical 2-fluorobenzoate, and the formation of the arrangement adsorption is dependent on the size of the adsorbed molecule.

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