Fig. 7. Reaction mechanism of 4-NS hydrogenation to 4-AS over RuNi SAA.
A schematic illustration for the reaction mechanism of 4-NS hydrogenation to 4-AS on the surface of RuNi SAA. Ru, violet; Ni, green; C, orange; O, red; N, blue; H, white. The inset shows potential energy profiles for 4-NS hydrogenation on RuNi SAA(111) surface based on DFT calculations. ‘S0’ denotes the initial state and ‘S1–S10’ represent a series of adsorption states. ‘TS’ denotes a transition state. The numbers in parentheses stand for the energy barriers of the elementary step and the other numbers represent the adsorption energies of corresponding intermediates.