In this work, we present an approach combining a fast gas pulsing valve synchronized with data acquisition to enable surface transient kinetics studies using infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy. This methodology applies to the study of reversible processes and borrows concepts and ideas from molecular beam scattering and temporal analysis of products. A temporal resolution of ~67 ms is achieved, and this is illustrated through the study of CO adsorption and desorption on a Pd(111) crystal in the presence and absence of background O<sub>2</sub>. The same approach can be extended to other surface spectroscopies, such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, to obtain spectra with high temporal resolution and signal-to-noise ratio and enable future multimodal surface transient kinetic studies aiming at elucidating reaction mechanisms.

Transient kinetics infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy through synchronized gas pulsing and data acquisition

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