Influence of auto-organization and fluctuation effects on the kinetics of a monomer-monomer catalytic scheme

Abstract

We study analytically kinetics of an elementary bimolecular reaction scheme of the Langmuir-Hinshelwood type taking place on a d-dimensional catalytic substrate. We propose a general approach which takes into account explicitly the influence of spatial correlations on the time evolution of particles mean densities and allows for the analytical analysis. In terms of this approach we recover some of known results concerning the time evolution of particles mean densities and establish several new ones.Comment: Latex, 25 pages, one figure, submitted to J. Chem. Phy