title: Following the steps of a reaction by direct imaging of many individual molecules.
abstract: The dehydrogenation and dechlorination of FeOEP-Cl on Cu(111) has been studied in detail by scanning tunneling microscopy. Although, it is not possible to follow the reaction of an individual molecule, the complete pathway of the reaction with 22 inequivalent intermediate states and the rates of the involved processes are revealed. This is achieved by combining the analysis of a large data set showing thousands of molecules in the different stages of the reaction with numerical simulations.
authors.affiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Physics, Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstrasse 1-21, 47057 Duisburg, Germany. christian.bobisch@uni-due.de rolf.moeller@uni-due.de.
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: van Vörden
authors.affiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Physics, Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstrasse 1-21, 47057 Duisburg, Germany. christian.bobisch@uni-due.de rolf.moeller@uni-due.de.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wortmann
authors.affiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Physics, Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstrasse 1-21, 47057 Duisburg, Germany. christian.bobisch@uni-due.de rolf.moeller@uni-due.de.
authors.forename: Nico
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Physics, Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstrasse 1-21, 47057 Duisburg, Germany. christian.bobisch@uni-due.de rolf.moeller@uni-due.de.
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lange
authors.affiliation: Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Robles
authors.affiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Physics, Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstrasse 1-21, 47057 Duisburg, Germany. christian.bobisch@uni-due.de rolf.moeller@uni-due.de.
authors.forename: Lothar
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brendel
authors.affiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Physics, Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstrasse 1-21, 47057 Duisburg, Germany. christian.bobisch@uni-due.de rolf.moeller@uni-due.de.
authors.forename: Christian A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Bobisch
authors.affiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Physics, Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstrasse 1-21, 47057 Duisburg, Germany. christian.bobisch@uni-due.de rolf.moeller@uni-due.de.
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Möller