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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
卷 125, 期 1, 页码 25-33出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c07540
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- Sao Paulo Research Foundation-FAPESP [2017/13401-4, 2017/24839-0]
- CAPES
Hybrid computational methods were used to successfully predict homogeneous electron exchange between ferrocene and its oxidized state, showing a deviation of no more than 15% compared to experimental values. Reorganization energy was found to have a subtle yet significant dependence on the nature and localization of the compensating countercharge.
Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of hybrid computational methods to predict the homogeneous electron exchange between the ferrocene and its oxidized (ferrocenium) state. The free energy for ferrocene oxidation was determined from thermodynamic cycles and implicit solvation strategies within density functional theory (DFT) methods leading to no more than 15% of deviation (in the range of 0.1-0.2 eV) when compared to absolute redox free energies obtained experimentally. Reorganization energy, as defined according to the Marcus theory of electron-transfer rate, was obtained by sampling the vertical ionization/electron affinity energies using hybrid quantum/classical (QM/MM) Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics trajectories. Calculated reorganization energies show a subtle but noteworthy dependence with the nature and the localization of the compensating countercharge. We concluded that the adopted hybrid computational strategy, to simulate homogeneous redox reactions, was successfully demonstrated and it further permits applications in more complex systems (required in daily life applications), where the electron transfer occurs heterogeneously.
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