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This thesis is based on two projects involving work on Pt(111) and Sn/Pt(111) surface alloys. The first project focused on the adsorption and surface chemistry of pyridine, cyclohexylamine, and piperidine, which were studied on a Pt(111) single crystal in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) …

Mailey and Ocone1'2 treated pyridine-l-oxide withhexafluoropropene and obtained 2-(l, 2,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl)pyridinein 44 per cent yield; the mechanism they postulated involved the formationof an isoxazolidine intermediate.This thesis forms a natural extension of their work, si…