Origins of the High Thermal Stability of Alkylidene Groups on the Surface of β-Mo<sub>2</sub>C
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Abstract
Surface alkylidenes can be formed on β-Mo 2 C through the selective carbonyl bond scission of ketones and aldehydes. Spectroscopic studies show that alkylidene groups remain intact on the carbide surface to above 900 K under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. A rationalization for the anomalously high thermal stability is presented on the basis of surface analysis studies. It is shown that the relatively high reactivity of the clean carbide surface permits both carbonyl bond scission and other less selective processes involving CC and CH bond cleavage. The combined decomposition channels lead to the deposition of excess carbon and high-coordination oxygen, resulting in an inert surface on which alkylidenes are thermally stable. Removal of surface carbon, through CO desorption and carbon diffusion, occurs at high temperatures leading to a newly reactive surface. Alkylidenes trapped at low temperatures on the intrinsically passivated surface can survive until the clean surface is partially restored at high temperatures.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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