Quantum chemical modelling case studies relevant to metal oxide dissolution and catalysis |
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Authors: | A R Gerson R Jones D Simpson G Pacchioni T Bredow |
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Institution: | 1. Ian Wark Research Institute, The Commonwealth ARC Special Research Centre in Particle and Material Interfaces, University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes Campus, South Australia, Australia 2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, via Cozzi 53, I-20125, Milano, Italy 3. Theoretische Chemie, Universit?t Hannover, Am Kleinen Felde 30, D-30167, Hannover, Germany
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Abstract: | Over the past 20 years quantum-chemical methods have been developed sufficiently so that they can now be applied to the elucidation
of the complex mechanistic processes that occur during metal oxide dissolution and catalysis reactions. Many of the reactions
occurring during these processes are not directly accessible to experimental techniques and therefore quantum-chemical modelling
can be applied to probe the individual reaction steps involved in the overall mechanism.
Quantum chemistry provides the means of calculating the electronic properties of solids (e.g. band structures) structural
properties of solids and surfaces (for instance surface relaxation and rumpling) heats of formation and reaction, activation
energies, spectroscopic excitation energies and vibrational frequencies.
Three case studies are described, which have been chosen to cover a range of quantum chemical applications and methodologies.
These case studies are a) the dissolution mechanism of MgO, b) the parameterisation of titanium dioxide for the determination
of electronic properties and c) the mechanism and energetics of adsorption of Pd onto rutile. These case studies utilise Hartree-Fock
semiempirical andab initio quantum-chemical methods as well as density functional methodologies. A range of model types are used, namely cluster models
embedded in pseudo-atoms, 3-dimensional periodic models and 2-dimensional periodic surface models. |
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