title: Effect of pre-covered oxygen on the dehydrogenation reactions over copper surface: a density functional theory study.
abstract: Dehydrogenation of five species including CH3OH, CH3O, H2COO, NH3, and H2O over clean and oxygen-modified copper surfaces has been investigated by the first-principle density functional calculations within the generalized gradient approximation. The reaction enthalpies and the activation energies have been calculated for 10 elementary steps corresponding to the direct and oxygen-assisted cleavage of X-H bonds (X = O, N, C). The DFT-GGA results showed that the pre-adsorbed oxygen always facilitates the dehydrogenation reaction by decreasing the reaction enthalpies and the activation energies. The obtained results are in general agreement with experimental observations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and the Center of Theoretical Chemistry Study, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Shu-Xia
authors.initials: SX
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Gui-Chang
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xian-He
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Bu