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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
卷 115, 期 12, 页码 2658-2667出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp200106x
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- Office of Science and Technology through EPSRC
- EPSRC
- EPSRC [EP/F037481/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F037481/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Because of the importance of mineral catalyzed decarboxylation reactions in both crude oil formation and, increasingly, biofuel production, we present a model study into the decarboxylation of the shortest fatty acid, propionic acid C2H5COOH, into an alkane and CO2 catalyzed by a pyrophillite-like, phyllosilicate clay. To identify the decarboxylation pathway, we searched for a transition state between the reactant, comprised of the clay plus interlayer fatty acid, and the product, comprised of the clay plus interlayer,alkane and carbon dioxide. Using linear and quadratic synchronous transit mechanisms we searched for a transition state followed by vibrational analysis to verify the intermediate found as a transition state. We employed a periodic cell, planewave, ab initio density functional theory computation to examine total energy differences, Mulliken charges, vibrational frequencies, and the frontier orbitals of the reactants, intermediates, and products. The results show that interpretation of vibrational data, Mulliken charges and Fermi-level orbital occupancies is necessary for the classification of a transition state in this type of mixed bulk surface plus interlayer species, clay-organic system.
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