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The dependence on ammonia pretreatment of N-O activation by Co(II) sites in zeolites: a DFT and ab initio molecular dynamics study

Journal

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-017-3322-z

Keywords

Co(II) zeolites; DFT cluster and periodic modeling; Donor ligands; NH3 co-adsorption; NO stretching frequencies; IR spectra

Funding

  1. National Science Centre, Poland [2015/17/B/ST5/00023]
  2. COST Action (ECOSTBio) [STSM-CM1305-151114-051084, STSM-CM1305-150215-051085, CM1305]
  3. Research & Development Operational Programme - ERDF
  4. PL-Grid Infrastructure at ACK CYFRONET, Krakow

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This work is focused on the donor properties of cobalt-exchanged cationic sites in zeolites. It is based on cluster and periodic density functional theory modeling for relevant {[Co(II)(NH3)(n)]-NO} adducts, where Co(II) means a cobalt cation embedded either in a periodic model of chabasite (CHA) zeolite or in model clusters. NO stretching frequencies were derived from MD trajectories and compared to harmonic values from cluster calculations. By relating calculated NO frequencies to experimental FTIR spectra, it was shown that the forms of {Co(II)-NO} adducts comprising three or four ammonia co-ligands dominate the spectrum taken in ammonia-saturation conditions while forms with two NH3 ligands prevail under intermediate ammonia saturation. Finally, this work confirms the critical dependence of Co(II) activation ability towards NO upon the center donor properties, reinforced by ligation of strong donor ammonia ligands. However, strongly bound ligands appear also to compete with interaction of the center with the electron-rich framework, and a balance must be observed to maintain optimal activation ability.

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