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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages 1274-1283Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct800402k
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- European Community [NMP3-CT-2005-506621]
- University of Palermo
- Italian Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca
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The isomerization of cis-but-2-ene to trans-but-2-ene within a 22T H-ZSM-5 zeolite model, also in the presence of two adsorbed Pd atoms, has been studied by DFT calculations. The results obtained allow us to state that the cis/trans but-2-ene isomerization can easily proceed inside unsupported zeolite cavities. In this case, differently than in the gas phase reaction, the trans-but-2-ene is less stable than the cis-but-2-ene, when adsorbed on the zeolite inner surface. Excluding the adsorption-desorption steps, the isomerization process involves two intermediates and three transition states, whose energy content is always very low with respect to that of reagents and intermediate species. The reaction is in principle allowed also in the presence of two Pd atoms embedded inside the zeolite cavity. However, strong H-Pd interactions seem to cause higher activation energies along the formation of the involved intermediates and transition states. To evaluate the confining effects of the zeolite room on the cis/trans isomerization process, the latter has been also analyzed on protonated (Pd2H+) and unprotonated (Pd-2) bare palladium fragments at different multiplicity states. The but-2-ene adsorption on the considered systems and the mutual influence occurring between the metal atoms and the hydrogen acidic sites at different multiplicity states have also been taken into consideration.
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