Catalytic polymerization of naphthalene by HF/BF3 super acid: an ab initio density functional theory study

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (36) ◽  
pp. 23311-23319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Po-Yu Yang ◽  
Hsing-Yin Chen ◽  
Shin-Pon Ju ◽  
Chia-Lin Chang ◽  
Gao-Shee Leu ◽  
...  

The detailed reaction mechanism of naphthalene catalytic polymerization by HF/BF3 has been investigated by DFT calculations and the directionality of the naphthalene-derived mesophase molecule has been explained.

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (48) ◽  
pp. 19308-19317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Liang ◽  
Chao Liu ◽  
Mingwei Chen ◽  
Xiaopeng Qi ◽  
Pramod Kumar U. ◽  
...  

DFT calculations confirmed that the P–N coupled site changed the ORR pathway and improved the catalytic activity compared with single doping.


Author(s):  
Houyu Zhu ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
Naiyou Shi ◽  
Xuefei Ding ◽  
Zehua Yu ◽  
...  

Ni/ZnO catalysts have been well recognized by industry and academia for exhibiting excellent desulfurization activities. However, intrinsic reaction mechanism on Ni active center is still obscure. Herein, we performed periodic...


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (43) ◽  
pp. 34319-34326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lianyang Zhang ◽  
Junhui Jiang ◽  
Wei Shi ◽  
Shengjie Xia ◽  
Zheming Ni ◽  
...  

The hydrogenation mechanism of nitrobenzene to aniline on Pd3/Pt(111) surface preferentially follows the direct route and fits best the Jackson reaction mechanism (mechanism B).


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (110) ◽  
pp. 108621-108626 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Guerrero-Sánchez ◽  
M. Lopez-Fuentes ◽  
F. Sánchez-Ochoa ◽  
Noboru Takeuchi ◽  
Gregorio H. Cocoletzi

Nitrogen induced phosphorene formation on top of the BP (111) surface is investigated using periodic density functional theory (DFT) calculations.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert K. Dearden ◽  
Swastik Kar ◽  
John Hagopian ◽  
Pulickel M. Ajayan ◽  
Saroj K. Nayak

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1631-1641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Teh Chen ◽  
Francisco J. Martin-Martinez ◽  
Gang Seob Jung ◽  
Markus J. Buehler

A set of computational methods that contains a brute-force algorithmic generation of chemical isomers, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations is reported and applied to investigate nearly 3000 probable molecular structures of polydopamine (PDA) and eumelanin.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document