摘要：

In the preceding Letter Shelef [1] has proposed a mechanism for NO decomposition involving coordinatively unsaturated Cu 2+ sites on which NO molecules are chemisorbed in the gem-dinitrosyl form. At reaction temperature this complex is supposed to decompose into N 2 and O 2 without involving a redox process. That such a process is feasible has been pointed out by Moser [2]. Shelef cited several reasons in support of this view and others that have led him to think that a cyclic redox mechanism is not operative. These arguments are countered herein and some new data are presented showing the infrared spectra of surface species recorded under in situ reaction conditions.

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