Publication Date:
2006-02-14
Description:
The Born-Oppenheimer approximation of uncoupled electronic and nuclear motion is a standard tool of the computational chemist. However, its validity for molecule-metal surface reactions, which are important to heterogeneous catalysis, has been questioned because of the possibility of electron-hole pair excitations. We have performed experiments and calculations on the scattering of molecular hydrogen from a catalytically relevant metal surface, obtaining absolute probabilities for changes in the molecule's velocity parallel to the representative Pt(111) surface. The comparison for in-plane and out-of-plane scattering and results for dissociative chemisorption in the same system show that for hydrogen-metal systems, reaction and diffractive scattering can be accurately described using the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nieto, Pablo -- Pijper, Ernst -- Barredo, Daniel -- Laurent, Guillaume -- Olsen, Roar A -- Baerends, Evert-Jan -- Kroes, Geert-Jan -- Farias, Daniel -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Apr 7;312(5770):86-9. Epub 2006 Feb 9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada C-3 and Instituto Nicolas Cabrera, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16469880" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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