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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
卷 115, 期 20, 页码 10173-10179出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp202029a
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- DOE-BES [DE-FG02-05ER15702]
The electronic structure of azobenzene and aniline, adsorbed on two TiO2 surfaces, anatase (101) and rutile (110), has been studied with ultraviolet synchrotron-based photoemission spectroscopy (UPS). At saturation coverage, azobenzene and aniline exhibit very similar molecular orbitals in UPS valence band spectra. Angle-resolved UPS exhibits anisotropy of the molecular states along the polar and azimuthal direction, as is expected for highly oriented superstructures. For a low coverage of azobenzene adsorbed on anatase, photon irradiation results in the conversion of the flat-lying molecule into two upright phenyl imide species. An irradiation-induced trans-cis isomer conversion is proposed to facilitate the azobenzene cleavage. These results confirm that the N=N double bond of azobenzene is cleaved by TiO2 in the full-coverage regime and that the resulting intermediate is bonded to the substrate, in agreement with a previous scanning tunneling microscopy study and a proposed reaction scheme for azobenzene <-> aniline conversion at TiO2 surfaces [Li, S.-C.; Diebold, U. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 64].
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