Chemisorption Complexes on Alloy Surfaces

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Abstract
Three factors have greatly promoted the recent revival of interest in catalysis by alloys. The first was the finding that in industrial catalysis certain bimetallic systems are superior to monometallic catalysts. Sinfelt [1–5] had a particularly important share in the pioneering work supporting this finding. He showed that the selectivity for catalyzing nondestructive hydrocarbon reactions is often significantly tighter for a bimetallic catalyst than for its most active monometallic constituent. Even more important was the finding that bimetallic catalysts are frequently less susceptible to poisoning by, e.g., carbonaceous residues [1–6], As a consequence, their steady-state activity will be superior to that of monometallic catalysts even if the initial activity was lower.