Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (8): 1739.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20140260

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Theoretical Studies on the Reaction Mechanisms of Methoxy Group and Carbon Monoxide over the Surfaces of Pd(111)

DING Kaining*(), LI Yulu, CHENG Peisi, ZHANG Yongfan   

  1. Research Institute of Photocatalysis, State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Department of Chemistry of Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
  • Received:2014-03-25 Online:2014-08-10 Published:2014-06-16
  • Contact: DING Kaining E-mail:dknfzu@fzu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21171039)

Abstract:

The possible reaction mechanisms of CH3O and CO on Pd(111) surface were studied with GGA-PW91 in the DMol3 software package based on density functional theory(DFT). The relative calculated results indicate that the equilibrium state of CH3O adsorbed at fcc position is the most stable configuration with more negative charges on O atom, be apt to be attacked by electrophilic reagents. While, CO adsorbed on top site perpendicularly by the interaction between C atom and Pd surface has lower adsorption energy, and its carbon atoms will possess more positive charges, which avail the migration for electrophilic insert reaction. Compared with CO on the bridge and hollow sites, CO adsorbed on the top sites is the optimistical configuration for the coupled reaction yielding CH3OOC, which may be attributed to the mobility and electrophilcity of CO.

Key words: Density functional theory, Carbon monoxide, Surface of Pd(111), Surface adsorption, Reaction pathway

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