文摘
Palladium oxide cluster ions, PdnOm+, were prepared in the gas phase using laser ablation of a palladium rod in the presence of oxygen. The cluster ions were heated to 1000 K downstream from the cluster source (post heating), and the abundance of PdnOm+ (n = 2鈥?) was examined using mass spectrometry. Temperature-programmed desorption experiments revealed that an oxygen molecule is released from oxygen-rich PdnOm+, forming oxygen-deficient PdnOm鈥?+. It was found that Pd6O4+ was thermally stable up to 1000 K. The activation energy for oxygen molecule desorption has been obtained and compared with previous results by Lang et al.