期刊
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
卷 341, 期 -, 页码 457-463出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.08.054
关键词
First principles; Hazardous chemicals; Phosphorus trichloride; Phosphorus oxychloride; Water-catalyzed hydrolysis
资金
- Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE)
- Global Frontier Program through the Global Frontier Hybrid Interface Materials (GFHIM) [2013-M3A6B1078882]
- Defense Industry Technology Center (DITC) [UC15000ID]
Using first principles calculations we unveil fundamental mechanism of hydrolysis reactions of two hazardous chemicals PCl3 and POCl3 with explicit molecular water clusters nearby. It is found that the water molecules play a key role as a catalyst significantly lowing activation barrier of the hydrolysis via transferring its protons to reaction intermediates. Interestingly, torsional angle of the molecular complex at transition state is identified as a vital descriptor on the reaction rate. Analysis of charge distribution over the complex further reinforces the finding with atomic level correlation between the torsional angle and variation of the orbital hybridization state of phosphorus (P) in the complex. Electronic charge separation (or polarization) enhances thermodynamic stability of the activated complex and reduces the activation energy through hydrogen bonding network with water molecules nearby. Calculated potential energy surfaces (PES) for the hydrolysis of PCl3 and POCl3 depict their two contrastingly different profiles of double- and triple-depth wells, respectively. It is ascribed to the unique double-bonding O=P in the POCl3. Our results on the activation free energy show well agreements with previous experimental data within 7 kcal mo1(-1) deviation. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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