Khan, Alveena Z., Alitt, Jacob, Germaney, Rhiannon, Hamada, Ikutaro, Wells, Peter P., Dimitratos, Nikolaos, Catlow, C. Richard A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1341-1541, Villa, Alberto and Chutia, Arunabhiram 2022. A comparative study on the stability of the furfural molecule on the low index Ni, Pd and Pt surfaces. Royal Society Open Science 9 (3) , 211516. 10.1098/rsos.211516 |
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Abstract
We present a comparative density functional theory investigation of the furfural (Ff) molecule on the low index Ni, Pd and Pt surfaces to understand its geometrical and electronic properties to gain mechanistic insights into the experimentally measured catalytic reactivities of these metal catalysts. We show that the number of metal d-states, which hybridize with the nearest C and O p-orbitals of the Ff molecule, can be used to explain the stability of the Ff molecule on these surfaces. We find that the hybridization between atoms with higher electronegativity and the metal d-states plays a crucial role in determining the stability of these systems. Furthermore, we also find electron transfer from metal to the Ff molecule on the Ni and Pd surfaces, with a reverse process occurring on the Pt surface.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA) Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI) Chemistry |
Additional Information: | Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
Publisher: | The Royal Society |
ISSN: | 2054-5703 |
Funders: | EPSRC |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 4 May 2022 |
Date of Acceptance: | 9 February 2022 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2024 13:05 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/149511 |
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