Dissociative chemisorption of methane on a nickel surface is a prototypical system for studying mode-specific chemistry in gassurface reactions.We recently developed a fifteen-dimensional potential energy surface for ...Dissociative chemisorption of methane on a nickel surface is a prototypical system for studying mode-specific chemistry in gassurface reactions.We recently developed a fifteen-dimensional potential energy surface for this system which has proven to be chemically accurate in reproducing the measured absolute dissociative sticking probabilities of CHD_3in thermal conditions and with vibrational excitation on Ni(111)at high incident energies.Here,using this new potential energy surface,we explored mode specificity and bond selectivity for CHD_3and CH_2D_2dissociative chemisorption at low incidence energies down to^50 k J/mol via a quasi-classical trajectory method.Our calculated dissociation probabilities are consistent with previous theoretical and experimental ones with an average shift in translational energy of^8 k J/mol.Our results very well reproduce the C–H/C–D branching ratio upon the C–H local mode excitation,which can be rationalized by the sudden vector projection model.Quantitatively,however,the calculated dissociative sticking probabilities are systematically larger than experimental ones,due presumably to the artificial zero point energy leakage into reaction coordinate.Further high-dimensional quantum dynamics calculations are necessary for acquiring a chemically accurate description of methane dissociative chemisorption at low incident energies.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFA0303500)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91645202, 21722306, 21573203)+1 种基金Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Technologiespartially supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WK2060190082, WK2340000078)
文摘Dissociative chemisorption of methane on a nickel surface is a prototypical system for studying mode-specific chemistry in gassurface reactions.We recently developed a fifteen-dimensional potential energy surface for this system which has proven to be chemically accurate in reproducing the measured absolute dissociative sticking probabilities of CHD_3in thermal conditions and with vibrational excitation on Ni(111)at high incident energies.Here,using this new potential energy surface,we explored mode specificity and bond selectivity for CHD_3and CH_2D_2dissociative chemisorption at low incidence energies down to^50 k J/mol via a quasi-classical trajectory method.Our calculated dissociation probabilities are consistent with previous theoretical and experimental ones with an average shift in translational energy of^8 k J/mol.Our results very well reproduce the C–H/C–D branching ratio upon the C–H local mode excitation,which can be rationalized by the sudden vector projection model.Quantitatively,however,the calculated dissociative sticking probabilities are systematically larger than experimental ones,due presumably to the artificial zero point energy leakage into reaction coordinate.Further high-dimensional quantum dynamics calculations are necessary for acquiring a chemically accurate description of methane dissociative chemisorption at low incident energies.
