Table 2.

Summary of XPS determined elemental compositions^a for thin films of 1⁺–CS_2⁻ and 2⁺–CS_2⁻ on gold.

		Au	C	N	S	O
1+–CS2−	Theor. comp.	0	87.5	6.25	6.25	0
	Exp. comp.	65.4(2.8)	19.9(1.9)	1.9(0.6)	2.2(0.3)	2.2(0.9)
	Exp. comp. w/o Au	0	81.7(2.1)	5.5(1.5)	6.4(1.3)	6.4(2.1)
2+–CS2−	Theor. comp.	0	71.4	14.3	14.3	0
	Exp. comp.	59.9(2.3)	33.1(0.9)	3.2(0.8)	3.8(0.3)	n. d.b
	Exp. comp. w/o Au	0	82.5(2.2)	8.0(2.0)	9.5(0.7)	n. d.b

^aValues in atomic % with experimental errors in parentheses.

^bNot detected.