“…However, some authors have claimed that activation of NO x occurs first, forming nitrous surface species, such as nitro (Meunier et al, 2000), nitroso (Poignant et al, 2001, Gerlach et al, 1999, nitrosonium ions (Gerlach et al, 1999, Ingelsten et al, 2005, nitrate or nitrite (Luo et al,2007, Anunziata et al, 2007 over the catalyst. For instance, bridging and bidentate nitrates were reported to be produced first by co-adsorption of NO+O 2 on Co/SO 4 2− -ZrO 2 (Tsyntsarski et al, 2003), BaY (Sedlmair et al, 2003a) and Ag/Al 2 O 3 (Bentrup et al, 2005). Tsyntsarski et al (Tsyntsarski et al, 2003) have suggested that both bridging and bidentate nitrates are active species of the HC-SCR.…”