On the compensation effect in heterogeneous catalysis

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 107, Issue 35, 2003, Pages 9325-9331

  Bligaard, Thomas ^a   Honkala, Karoliina ^a   Logadottir, Ashildur ^a   Nørskov, Jens K ^a   Dahl, Søren ^b   Jacobsen, Claus J H ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b HALDOR TOPSØE A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; AMMONIA; DISSOCIATION; NITROGEN; PALLADIUM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REACTION KINETICS; RUTHENIUM; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ACTIVATION BARRIER; COMPENSATION EFFECT; HARMONIC TRANSITION STATE THEORY; REACTANTS;

CATALYSIS;

EID: 0141459866     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp034447g     Document Type: Article

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