Effect of pre-covered oxygen on the dehydrogenation reactions over copper surface: a density functional theory study

Shu-Xia Tao; Gui-Chang Wang; Xian-He Bu

doi:10.1021/jp0649495

Effect of pre-covered oxygen on the dehydrogenation reactions over copper surface: a density functional theory study

J Phys Chem B. 2006 Dec 28;110(51):26045-54. doi: 10.1021/jp0649495.

Authors

Shu-Xia Tao¹, Gui-Chang Wang, Xian-He Bu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and the Center of Theoretical Chemistry Study, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 17181256
DOI: 10.1021/jp0649495

Abstract

Dehydrogenation of five species including CH3OH, CH3O, H2COO, NH3, and H2O over clean and oxygen-modified copper surfaces has been investigated by the first-principle density functional calculations within the generalized gradient approximation. The reaction enthalpies and the activation energies have been calculated for 10 elementary steps corresponding to the direct and oxygen-assisted cleavage of X-H bonds (X = O, N, C). The DFT-GGA results showed that the pre-adsorbed oxygen always facilitates the dehydrogenation reaction by decreasing the reaction enthalpies and the activation energies. The obtained results are in general agreement with experimental observations.