DFT studies of selective oxidation of propene on the MoO3(010) surface

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出版日 2021-01-07

DOI 10.1039/D0CP03732J

インパクトファクター 3.676

著者

Min Yan

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要旨

Selective oxidation of propene to acrolein and acrylic acid has been applied in industry for many years. In this work, the density functional theory plus U (DFT+U) method was performed to study the hydrogen abstraction of propene on the MoO3(010) surface. From the most stable chemisorbed propene (di-σ propene), the allyl intermediate is difficult to produce on a perfect MoO3(010) surface because of the high barrier. In general, the barriers of the second hydrogen abstraction are much lower than those of the first one. The conclusion from our slab model calculations is consistent with the experimental results. It is found that the (3 + 2) mechanism exhibits lower barriers than the (5 + 2) mechanism. Oxygen defects facilitate the first dehydrogenation significantly, and π-allyl converts to σ-allyl favorably on defects, in agreement with a previous experimental study. The present study indicates that increasing the surface oxygen defects might be an effective way to promote the activity of MoO3 to propene oxidation.

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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

CiteScore: 5.5

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年間論文数: 3036

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