Activation of light alkanes on pure and Fe and Al doped silica clusters: A density functional and ONIOM study

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2007-01-01

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Fellah, Mehmet Ferdi
Önal, Işık

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C-H bond activation was studied by use of density functional theory (DFT) and ONIOM calculations as implemented in Gaussian 2003 at the B3LYP level utilising 6-31G* as the basis set for Si, Al, and Fe atoms and 3-21G** as the basis set for O and H atoms. Relative energy profiles were determined for pure silica modeled by a Si7O21 cluster and Fe and Al doped silica clusters via coordinate driving calculations. The activation barriers for C-H bond activation of methane and ethane decrease with the substitution of Fe on the silica surface, which theoretically demonstrates a favorable effect of Fe substitution on that surface. The activation energy barriers of methane and ethane are substantially decreased from the approximate transition state values of 55.14 kcal/mol and 54.89 kcal/mol for pure silica cluster to 33.43 kcal/mol and 36.54 kcal/mol obtained for the approximate transition state for Fe substituted silica, respectively.

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ONIOM, DFT, Density functional theory, Silica, Ethane, Methane, C-H bond activation, Fe doping, Al doping

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54417

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TURKISH JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

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M. F. Fellah and I. Önal, “Activation of light alkanes on pure and Fe and Al doped silica clusters: A density functional and ONIOM study,” TURKISH JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, pp. 415–426, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54417.