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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
Volume 1060, Issue -, Pages 80-87Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2013.12.030
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Corrosion; Mild steel; Azo-azomethine derivatives; Molecular dynamics simulation; Quantum chemical calculations
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The adsorption mechanism and inhibition performance of some Azo-azomethine derivatives [2-hydroxyphenylazo-2',4'-dihydroxy-3'-formylbenzene(Azo-1), 2-carboxyphenylazo-2',4'-dihydroxy-3'-formylbenzene (Azo-II), 2-hydroxyphenylazo-2',4'-dihydroxy-3'42-hydroxyphenylazomethine)(Azo-I-azomethine I) and 2-carboxyphenylazo-2',4'-dihydroxy-3'-{2-hydroxyazo methane} (Azo-II-azomethine II) on mild steel at temperatures ranging from 298 K to 333 K have been studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and quantum chemical computational methods. The results obtained revealed that these molecules could effectively adsorb on Fe (001) surface and the active adsorption sites of these molecules are the nitrogen, oxygen atoms and special negatively charged carbon atoms. All the inhibitors studied had unique corrosion inhibition performance with Azo-II-azomethine II showing the highest inhibition performance at lower temperature ranges from 298 K to 313 K and Azo-II displaying the highest inhibition performance at higher temperature ranges of 323 K and 333 K. Some quantum chemical parameters and the Mulliken charge densities on the optimized structure of inhibitors were calculated using the 6-31*G basis set method to provide further insight into the mechanism of the corrosion inhibition process. The local reactivity was analyzed through the Fukui function and condensed softness indices in order to know the possible sites of nucleophillic and electrophillic attacks. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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