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TOPICS IN CATALYSIS
Volume 24, Issue 1-4, Pages 161-172Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1023/B:TOCA.0000003087.47073.de
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methanol synthesis; embedding; hybrid QM/MM model; zinc oxide; polar surfaces; nanoclusters
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In this paper, we review a series of hybrid QM/MM studies performed on the methanol synthesis catalyst. This work has required development of a new embedded cluster approach suitable for polar surfaces of ionic oxides, which has been implemented in the computer code ChemShell. Five themes have been pursued: simulation of polar oxide surfaces of ZnO; their hydrogenation; adsorption of reactants, intermediates and products on active sites; characterization of active sites by their spectroscopic signature; investigation of metal-support interactions and modeling of the formation and oxidation of supported nanoclusters.
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