A. F. Carley, P. R. Davies, R. V. Jones, G. U. Kulkarni and M. W. Roberts
Chem. Commun., 1999, 687-688
DOI:
10.1039/A901221D,
Paper
The presence of pyridine is shown by STM to have a profound effect on the structure of a Cu(110)–O surface; the spacing within the <100> directed Cu–O chains is unchanged at 3.6 Å but there is an increase in the spacing between the chains from 5.1 to 7.7 Å; the flexibility of the Cu(110)–O structure is emphasised by the observation that the change in structure is reversible when the pyridine is thermally desorbed.