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Promoted Thermal Reduction of Copper Oxide Surfaces by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

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Navarro,  Juan Jesus
Interface Science, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Landwehr,  Felix
Interface Science, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Heyde,  Markus
Interface Science, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Roldan Cuenya,  Beatriz
Interface Science, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Navarro, J. J., Das, M., Tosoni, S., Landwehr, F., Heyde, M., Pacchioni, G., et al. (2022). Promoted Thermal Reduction of Copper Oxide Surfaces by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126(41), 17528-17535. doi:/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c04257.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-41B9-B
Abstract
The influence of metallic and oxide phases coexisting on surfaces is of fundamental importance in heterogeneous catalysis. Many reactions lead to the reduction of the oxidized areas, but the elucidation of the mechanisms driving these processes is often challenging. In addition, intermediate species or designed organic ligands increase the complexity of the surface. In the present study, we address the thermal reduction of a copper oxide overlayer grown on Cu(111) in the presence of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands by means of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and density functional theory (DFT). We show that the NHC ligands actively participate in the copper oxide reduction, promoting its removal at temperatures as low as 470 K. The reduction of the oxide was tracked by employing scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), providing a chemical identification of metallic and oxide areas at the nanometric scale.