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Dehydroxylation of Glycerol on Pt Surfaces: Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study
Authors:Jiaxuan Xie  Jian Liu  Bo Yang
Institution:School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
Abstract:Glycerol is an important raw material in the chemical industry, and dehydroxylation of glycerol would produce 1, 2-propanediol and 1, 3-propanediol. Here we studied glycerol dehydroxylation with ab initio molecular dynamics simulations on Pt(111) and Pt(211) surfaces at 453 K. The free energies obtained on Pt show that dehydroxylation is more likely to occur at the terminal carbon than the central carbon, and 1, 2-propanediol would be produced preferentially, which is consistent with the selectivity observed experimentally. We found a linear relationship between the free energy barrier and the difference of average distances between O atoms at the initial state and transition state. Although a high correlation between the stability of gaseous glycerol and the number of formed hydrogen bonds is determined from density functional theory calculations, the hydrogen bonds formed within surface structures play a negligible role in determining the free energy barriers of dehydroxylation.
Keywords:Glycerol  Dehydroxylation  Ab initio molecular dynamics  Pt
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