The microscopic structure of the Pt3Sn(111) surface in an electrochemical environment has been studied by a combination of ex situ low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), and low-energy ion scattering (LEIS) and in situ surface X-ray scattering (SXS) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. In ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) the clean-annealed surface produces a p(2 x 2) LEED pattern consistent with the surface composition, determined by LEIS, of 25 at. % Sn. SXS results show that the p(2 x 2) structure can be "transferred" from UHV into 0.5 M H2SO4 and that the surface structure remains stable from 0.05 to 0.8 V. At 0.05 V the expansion of Pt surface atoms, ca. +2% from the bulk lattice spacing, is induced by adsorption of underpotential-deposited (UPD) hydrogen. At 0.5 V, where Pt atoms are covered by (bi)sulfate anions, the topmost layer is contracted relative to 0.05 V, although Sri atoms expand significantly, ca. 8.5%. The p(2 x 2) structure is stable even in solutions containing CO. In contrast to the Pt(111)-CO system, no ordered structures of CO are formed on the Pt3Sn(111) surface and the topmost layer expands relatively little (ca. 1.5%) from the bulk lattice spacing upon the adsorption of CO. The binding site geometry of CO on Pt3Sn(111) is determined by FTIR. In contrast to the near invariant band shape of a-top CO on Pt(111), changes in band morphology (splitting of the band) and vibrational properties (increase in the frequency mode) are clearly visible on the Pt3Sn(111) surface. To explain the line shape of the CO bands, we suggest that in addition to alloying effects other factors, such as intermolecular repulsion between coadsorbed CO and OH species, are controlling segregation of CO into cluster domains where the local CO coverage is different from the coverage expected for the CO-CO interaction on an unmodified Pt(111) surface.