Hydrogen and CO spillover at Cu/Rh(100) bimetallic surfaces studied by highresolution electron energyloss spectroscopy J.Summary Abstract: Coadsorption structures of benzene and carbon monoxide on Rh(111) and Pt(111) by highresolution electron energy loss spectroscopy and lowenergy electron diffractionThe dynamics of carbon monoxide oxidation on Pd, Rh, and Pt foils were probed under nearly collision-free conditions using high resolution infrared chemiluminescence. Auger electron spectroscopy was used to verify the absence of impurities on the surfaces. The reactants were supplied to the surface through a free jet nozzle source, while a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer operating at 0.012 cm -I resolution was used to fully resolve the rotational structure of several vibrational transitions in the product CO 2 (22 in the case of Pd). In all cases, the product CO 2 is vibrationally excited and the apparent vibrational temperatures are in the same order as the peak reaction rates, i.e., Pd> Pt > Rh. The surface coverage of oxygen on Pd was varied by changing the CO:0 2 ratio and the surface temperature and, in both cases, increasing oxygen coverage causes an increase in vibrational excitation of product CO 2 , On Pt and Rh, the apparent temperatures of different vibrational modes are similar, while on Pd, those levels involved in Fermi resonances that are traditionally called the symmetric stretch levels are selectively populated. From these results, evidence that the activated complex is bent on Pd relative to Pt and Rh and, in all cases, is aligned more or less along the surface normal is presented.6932