We have performed a new study of the vibrational modes of CO adsorbed at low temperature (90 K) on Pt(111). As in previous work a sequential occupation of top and bridge sites is observed. At a certain bridge site coverage, however, a new vibrational mode with a frequency of 720 cm−1 appears. The mode is not observed at room temperature since sufficiently high coverages are not achieved there. The appearance of the 720 cm−1 mode is attributed to the C–Pt asymmetric stretching vibration becoming dipole active at higher coverages when, according to LEED results, an out-of-registry CO overlayer is formed.
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Baró et al. (1979) studied this question.
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