Comparing the chemical bonding strengths between different functional groups of nitroarenes and metal surfaces.
Obtaining the variation trends of adsorption configurations of nitrobenzene and 4-nitrostyrene against their coverage.
Identifying the coverage of nitroarene and hydrogen on Pt(111) and Au(111) under the realistic hydrogenation condition.
Proposing Gibbs free adsorption energy per surface area as a descriptor to roughly evaluate the hydrogenation selectivity.