TY - JOUR
T1 - CO bonding and vibrational modes on a perfect MgO(001) surface
T2 - LCGTO-LDF model cluster investigation
AU - Neyman, Konstantin M.
AU - Rösch, Notker
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to G. Pacchioni and P.S. Bagus for intensive discussions and for the communication of resultsp rior to publication. We thank L. Ackermann, I. Wilhelmy and 0. H$iberlen for their assistancei n using the LCGTO-LDF code. Financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 338) and by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie is gratefully acknowledged.K MN thanks the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a fellowship.
PY - 1992/12/15
Y1 - 1992/12/15
N2 - The adsorption of isolated CO molecules on a perfect MgO(001) surface is investigated theoretically by the LCGTO-LDF cluster method. Internuclear distances, adsorption energies as well as frequencies and absolute intensities of the MgOCO and CO vibrational modes are calculated for a number of MgO/CO and MgO/OC model clusters containing 2-18 substrate atoms and a large array of surrounding point charges. The convergence of the computed observables with cluster size is discussed. The LDF results are compared to those of previous HF studies. MgOCO adsorption is found to be mainly due to the electrostatic interaction of the CO molecule with the Madelung field on the surface. A small charge transfer of about 0.1 au from the CO 5σ orbital to the substrate also takes place and, besides Pauli repulsion, contributes to the overall blue shift of the CO vibrational frequency. The cluster models predict an approximate doubling of the CO vibrational intensity upon adsorption. This intensity enhancement derives to a large extent from a change of the π component of the CO dynamical dipole moment due to Pauli repulsion between the adsorbate at the cation atop position and the nearest neighbour surface anions. The calculated change of the CO vibrational intensity is at variance with that obtained in a previous analysis of the observed coverage dependence of the CO frequency. The MgOCO vibrational mode is calculated to have a frequency lower than 200 cm-1 and an absolute intensity of about 0.5 km/mol.
AB - The adsorption of isolated CO molecules on a perfect MgO(001) surface is investigated theoretically by the LCGTO-LDF cluster method. Internuclear distances, adsorption energies as well as frequencies and absolute intensities of the MgOCO and CO vibrational modes are calculated for a number of MgO/CO and MgO/OC model clusters containing 2-18 substrate atoms and a large array of surrounding point charges. The convergence of the computed observables with cluster size is discussed. The LDF results are compared to those of previous HF studies. MgOCO adsorption is found to be mainly due to the electrostatic interaction of the CO molecule with the Madelung field on the surface. A small charge transfer of about 0.1 au from the CO 5σ orbital to the substrate also takes place and, besides Pauli repulsion, contributes to the overall blue shift of the CO vibrational frequency. The cluster models predict an approximate doubling of the CO vibrational intensity upon adsorption. This intensity enhancement derives to a large extent from a change of the π component of the CO dynamical dipole moment due to Pauli repulsion between the adsorbate at the cation atop position and the nearest neighbour surface anions. The calculated change of the CO vibrational intensity is at variance with that obtained in a previous analysis of the observed coverage dependence of the CO frequency. The MgOCO vibrational mode is calculated to have a frequency lower than 200 cm-1 and an absolute intensity of about 0.5 km/mol.
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U2 - 10.1016/0301-0104(92)87161-2
DO - 10.1016/0301-0104(92)87161-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:44049110422
SN - 0301-0104
VL - 168
SP - 267
EP - 280
JO - Chemical Physics
JF - Chemical Physics
IS - 2-3
ER -