Cyclohexane dehydrogenation on clean Pd surfaces studied by UV photoemission

Ultraviolet photoemission studies show that cyclohexane is adsorbed without decomposition on clean polycrystalline Pd and single-crystal Pd (111) surfaces at low temperature (≤ 120 °K) but that at 300 °K it dehydrogenates to leave chemisorbed benzene on the surface. © 1978.