The clear appearance of a Raman band of a bending mode, not Raman active in the staggered conformation, proves that ethane is adsorbed in eclipsed conformation on silver, indium, and potassium, and probably on other quasi-free electron metals. A relatively low-lying Raman band is assigned to ...
Staggered ethane changes to eclipsed conformation upon adsorptiondoi:10.1002/JRS.1556A. PriebeA. PucciW. AkemannH. GrabhornA. OttoJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.