INIFTA   05425
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FISICO-QUIMICAS TEORICAS Y APLICADAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
The heterogeneous catalytic reaction 2A + B2 --> 2AB exactly solved on a small lattice
Autor/es:
PAULA BERGERO; VERÓNICA PASTOR; ISABEL MARÍA IRURZUN; EDUARDO ELÍAS MOLA
Revista:
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
Editorial:
Elsevier
Referencias:
Año: 2007 vol. 449 p. 115 - 119
ISSN:
0009-2614
Resumen:
We studied a kinetic model of a generic heterogeneous catalytic reaction . This reaction includes the steps of adsorption and desorption of reactants A and B2, where B2 requires two neighboring adsorption sites to be adsorbed. We solved the model exactly and without any restriction on a 2 × 2 lattice. Despite the reduced number of sites employed, the solution shows the main general features observed by simulating the mechanism on a large N × N lattice. This result should encourage the search for an analytical solution as a reliable form to unravel details of a chemical reaction prior to performing numerical simulations.