Infrared spectra of HCl adsorbed on high-area alkali-metal halides: dependence of the effective surface ionicities on the ionic radius ratio

Abstract

The adsorption of HCl on the surfaces of a wide range of high-area alkali-metal halides gave broad HCl absorption bands caused by hydrogen bonding to the surface halide ions. The decrease in wavenumbers of the absorptions at near-monolayer coverage, Δν(HCl), relative to the value for gas-phase HCl, used as a measure of the strength of the hydrogen bonding, showed systematic variations as a function of anion for a given cation, or vice versa. The values of Δν(HCl) were shown to correlate with the radius ratio, r⁺∶r^–, of the anions. A scale of the effective surface ionicities of the alkali-metal halides, relative to CsCl assumed to have unit ionicity, was derived from the relative Δν(HCl) values. The resulting scale gives a linear correlation with the charge separations in the gaseous diatomic alkali-metal halides as calculated earlier from the analysis of their dipole moments.

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