Predicting the kinetics of the dissociative adsorption of homonuclear molecules on metal surfaces in gas phase and solution II. Numerical calculations of the molecular oxygen dissociative adsorption on the Pd(1 1 1) surface

Ernst D. German*, Alexander M. Kuznetsov, Moshe Sheintuch

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Abstract

Numerical calculation of the activation energy and the pre-exponential factor that characterize the molecular oxygen dissociative adsorption on Pd(1 1 1) are performed in the framework of the adiabatic model developed in Part I of this paper. The transition states for two reaction mechanisms are located on the three-dimensional potential energy surface. The calculated characteristics of these transition states are in reasonable agreement with published theoretical data. A pictorial representation of the reaction path on the potential surface is given for one of the reaction mechanisms.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)170-182
Number of pages13
JournalSurface Science
Volume554
Issue number2-3
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Apr 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Chemisorption
  • Density functional calculations
  • Metallic surfaces
  • Oxygen
  • Palladium

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