Monitoring Plasmon-Assisted Catalysis by SERS

Due to its high efficiency and selectivity, plasmonic catalysis has attracted a lot of attention in heterogeneous catalysis. This chapter discusses plasmon-assisted reactions in the context of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic probing, which, as plasmon-enhanced spectroscopic tool, has been providing one of the main means to obtain an understanding of important steps in reaction mechanisms that involve the excitation of localized surface plasmon resonances as primary event. Important model reactions will be introduced, and aspects of their mechanisms will be discussed, together with methodological approaches that led to their observation, as well as their potential applications.