2020 年 63 巻 12 号 p. 629-634
Recently, we have revealed that the vibrational energy of CO2 drives the hydrogenation reaction of CO2 on Cu single crystal surfaces, Cu(111) and Cu(100), (CO2+Ha → HCOOa, where ‘a’ denotes adsorbate) via Eley–Rideal-type mechanism. The finding of the reaction dynamics of CO2 may provide deeper insights into the mechanism and kinetics of all the CO2-related surface chemical reactions and a possible application in the ‘state-to-state chemistry’ of methanol synthesis. Here we review the experimental results obtained with supersonic molecular beam.