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Nature 433, 470 (3 February 2005) | doi:10.1038/433470a; Published online 2 February 2005
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Surface chemistry: Approximate challenges
Greg Sitz1
Abstract
There is growing evidence that the usual approach to modelling chemical events at surfaces is incomplete — an important concern in studies of the many catalytic processes that involve surface reactions.
To describe all the transformations through which a molecule must go during a chemical reaction is a daunting task. The intermediate transition states of a reaction are hard to examine directly, and theory is needed to obtain a full understanding of all the relevant interactions.
- Greg Sitz is in the Department of Physics, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
e-mail: Email: e-mail: gositz@physics.utexas.edu
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