Directly probing the hybrid bonding of styrene on Cu111.
The interfacial electronic structure of chemisorbed styrene on Cu(111) was successfully investigated with two-photon photoemission spectroscopy. We observed unoccupied states 3.5 eV above the Fermi level and occupied states 2.0 eV below the Fermi level. Polarization results reveal that the occupied and unoccupied states arise from bonding and antibonding orbitals formed by hybridization of copper (surface state and d-band orbitals) and styrene (pi1* and pi2* orbitals).
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Center for Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
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