Table 1 Calculated vibrational efficacies with respect to the overall reactivity of these influential vibrational modes in the O–H/C–H/C–O dissociation

From: Vibrational control of selective bond cleavage in dissociative chemisorption of methanol on Cu(111)

Dissociation probabilities of (O–H/C–H/C–O)

0.001

0.005

0.01

0.02

0.05

1ν1(O–H)

1.62

1.64

1.72

1.97

2.66

1ν2(C–H)

0.95

0.86

0.89

0.92

0.94

1ν3(C–H)

1.10

1.00

1.01

1.01

1.01

1ν9(C–H)

1.00

0.80

0.84

0.87

0.94

1ν8(C–O)

5.13

5.00

4.21

4.15

5.25

2ν8(C–O)

4.45

4.33

4.31

4.26

4.12

3ν8(C–O)

3.57

3.37

3.45

3.76

4.31