The importance of tunneling in the first hydrogenation step in ammonia synthesis over a Ru(0001) surface

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 13, 2005, Pages

  Tautermann, Christofer S ^a   Clary, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA CATALYSIS; EXCITED PRODUCT; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE; SCATTERING THEORY;

AMMONIA; ANNEALING; CATALYSIS; HYDROGENATION; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 24144492339     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1862612     Document Type: Article

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