Abstract
An extremely large isotope effect [Ieff=Pdiss(15N2)/P diss(14N2)], has been measured in the dissociative chemisorption of nitrogen molecules over Ru(001). It varies from unity at kinetic energies above 2 eV to 0.2 at Ek=1.4 eV. These observations are consistent with a barrier for direct dissociation of 1.8 eV, in agreement with previous experiments and recent ab initio density functional theory calculations. It supports earlier studies that proposed tunneling as the dissociation dynamics mechanism.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 8221-8224 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
Volume | 112 |
Issue number | 19 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 15 May 2000 |