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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 112, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.046101
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- ECOS-Sud program
- China Scholarship Council
- French government
- ANR
- MINCyT [1962]
- CONICET [PIP 0667]
- UNR [PID ING235]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC51032002]
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Controlling bond-selective chemical reactivity is of great importance and has a broad range of applications. Here, we present a molecular dynamics study of bond selective reactivity of methane and its deuterated isotopologues (i.e., CH4-xDx, x = 0,1,2,3,4) on Ni(111) and Pt(111) from first principles calculations. Our simulations allow for reproducing the full C-H bond selectivity recently achieved experimentally via mode-specific vibrational excitation and explain its origin. Moreover, we also predict the hitherto unexplored influence of the molecular translational energy on such a selectivity as well as the conditions under which the full selectivity can be realized for the a priori less active C-D bond.
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