Vibrational spectroscopic investigations of the adsorption of isotopically labelled and unlabelled CO and CO2 reveal that carbonate formation on Pd-alumina catalysts occurs via an "oxygen down" reaction of CO with hydroxyl groups on the support, whereas CO dissociation on Pd can be excluded.
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